Do any Freepers have links to trustworthy reports on Putin?
It his latest just a version of Bill Clinton waving his 5 lb Bible after church or wiping a tear after Ron Brown’s funeral?
What he is saying is accurate, but considering the source.....????
People can say what they want about Vlad, but if Satan himself were telling folks to worship the one true God, he would still be right.
Putin is right. As religious observance in the West wanes, so does Western Civilization. Marriage, the cornerstone of our society and the bedrock of religion, is being torn asunder one brick at a time.
If we don’t turn this around, it will doom us.
“Granted, criminalizing homosexuality and making “insulting religious sensibilities” illegal aren’t policies America should ever emulate.”
America dod just fine when homosexuality was criminalized and insulting the religious sensibilities of Christians when done by a government does violate the First Amendment.
Godless world communism is the liberal/progressive goal.
Bizzaro world indeed...
But there is an old saying: No idea may be deemed responsible for the person who holds it.
And in this case, I fear that Vlad is correct...
Someone needs to. Certainly our president isn’t doing that.
If Putin were a businessman in the US, he’d be a member of the Tea Party.
The truth is peculiar. By 400 AD Christianity became dominant in the Roman Empire. Before then Christianity had several centers, so Christians were comfortable with the idea, and soon thereafter a second center of Christianity was founded in Constantinople.
This was wise as well because barbarians were gradually overthrowing Rome, which they finally achieved a hundred years later, so the capital of Christianity became Constantinople.
But a hundred years after that Islam reared its ugly head, and though it took until the 15th Century to conquer Constantinople, in the East, Russians assumed that Moscow would become a new capital of Christianity.
In 1448, the Patriarchate of Moscow (the Russian Church) became independent from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Metropolitan Jonas, installed by the Council of Russian bishops in 1448, was given the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia. This was just five years before the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
From this point onward the Russian Orthodox Church saw Moscow as the Third Rome, legitimate successor to Constantinople, and the Primate of Moscow as head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Well, it’s been 560 years since then, and though buried deeply, the Russians, or at least Putin, believe that Moscow is, or at least should be thought of as the new Rome, one of the centers of Christianity in the world.
While that might on the surface seem nostalgic, the underlying brilliance of this as a strategy, should rank as historical genius.
To start with, Putin can do this unopposed. To make Moscow into a capital of Christianity incites the anger of no one that matters. In effect, Putin has become a unifier of the Orthodox churches.
He already sponsored a conclave of Orthodox churches in Moscow, and it was a huge success, erasing divisions that have existed for hundreds of years. And after that great victory, he has even made overtures to Rome to join with them in unifying Christian orthodoxy.
Rome is both thrilled and terrified of the idea. I don’t blame them.
Putin’s gambit elevates him to the level of Constantine and Justinian I, both of whom are Orthodox saints.
At the same time, the secular and often pagan western nations don’t have a clue. Neither do the schismatic Protestant churches, caught up in their own struggles between secular socialism and Christianity.
Well it is like my question I asked as a junior in high school, way back in 1983, “what if the USSR became the US and the US became the USSR?” Looks like I will see the results of my 1980’s era thought experiment.
America keeps sinking further and further into the abyss of degeneracy and evil. It’s going to be quite a historical irony if it turns out that Putin/Russia becomes the last man standing, in terms of fighting for and preserving Western Civilization. Even moreso if drawn into conflict, with America now no longer the champion of democracy and freedom, but representing the forces of moral deviancy.
With America embracing fag-marriage, dope, open-borders, and pushing a poisonous culture of depravity, it’s no longer that surreal a proposition to imagine.
My, my how times have changed. For the worse.
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a quarter million? where does she get her figures? Between Lenin and Stalin more than 20 million Christians were killed by Bolsheviks and other assorted commies.
If he can convert Saul, he can convert Vlad.
All the same, I'll watch what Putin does as well as says.
As it says somewhere in The Bible, even demons know to fear God.
Their guy:
Our guy: 