Posted on 03/19/2014 3:22:43 PM PDT by NYer
Ping!
There are still a few Stalin era prison camps in Siberia that are in need of new occupants. I’m sure that Putin will generously give the Ukrainian Catholics an all expense paid permanent vacation there, just as Stalin did to the Crimean Tartars.
I thought all of the Ukrainian Catholics were here in Pennsylvania!
BTTT
Yet there are freepers who are openly siding with Putin and believe he’s a “good Christian”. Disgusting.
Maybe this will weaken some of the adulation Putin was getting from Catholics here at FR.
For instance this quote, (which isn’t yours) from a different thread.
“Putin is the best bet on the world stage right now for the traditional family values crowd.”
Or this one, which was in praise of him.
“Reportedly, Russia (Putin) is restoring the former glory of the long gone Orthodox Catholic Church to the exclusion of all protestant efforts to establish there.”
The idea of supporting Putin has surprised me as I thought it is obvious just what and who he is. But you’re right, he has a lot of vocal support here.
Putin is no Christian. He is a KGB thug in the worst way; like many of his predecessors, he has used the Russian Orthodox Church to help him consolidate power, and in exchange, that Church can rely on him to suppress rival religious groups. This includes Catholics, Baptists, Mormons and others.
I hope so, but sadly there isn't a lot of traffic on this thread and the fact Catholics are being persecuted by the Russians in Ukraine (and have been for decades, going back to the Soviet era) gets zero media coverage.
I think much of the adoration has to do with the fact that Putin opposes the gay agenda, so they praise him for his "Christian" values, and ignore the fact he's a slimy KGB thug who uses his clout to bully and oppress other Christians.
From what I've seen, most of the PR coming out of Putin's camp about him being a "good Orthodox Christian" is for propaganda purposes, like Obama claiming to be a faithful Christian in 2008 because he attended his wife's kill whitey church. Putin was baptized as a baby and is a nominal Christian, but I doubt he goes to church much. He opposes the gay agenda because he realizes it destroys western civilization, not because of any "Christian values" he holds.
“Yet there are freepers who are openly siding with Putin and believe he’s a “good Christian”. Disgusting.”
Yet there are freepers who are openly siding with Obuma, Kerry, Soros and Hillary and believe in pushing the US State Department homo agenda. Disgusting.
I can hurl stupid insults as well as the next person.
How about you people stop the crap and realize that Ukraine is a diversion to take the heat off Obuma and his rapidly crumbling domestic policy.
Ukraine has effectively divided conservatives and taken them away from their main task, which is taking down Obuma and his snake nest of fascist/commie bureaucrats.
Come on, people. You’re being played by Obuma and his Alinsky tactics.
Patton was more right than maybe he even knew. We should have finished the job long ago.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Ukrainian Catholics experiencing ‘total persecution’ in Crimea, BillyBoy wrote:
Yet there are freepers who are openly siding with Putin and believe he’s a “good Christian”. Disgusting.
In one of my posts after checking to see if there was a page for it and seeing one for Russia. I suggested one should be set up for the USSR. There’s about a dozen who have been posting Kremlin talking points and revisionist history all supporting Putin every time postings on Ukrarinia comes up. Some came in 2005 some earlier. Most don’t identify with a given state.
Sounds like a replay of 1843.
We can post the proof of the Putin and Russia adulation, and they seem to be that he is returning Christ to civilization, and that he is going to restore the Russian Orthodox and Catholic denominations into being in power and ending religious freedom for the people who fall under his control.
Here is just a taste of what we have seen sprinkled heavily throughout FR.
“Putin is the best bet on the world stage right now for the traditional family values crowd.”
Or this one, which was in praise of him.
“Reportedly, Russia (Putin) is restoring the former glory of the long gone Orthodox Catholic Church to the exclusion of all protestant efforts to establish there.”
Prayers of protection for the priests.
It happens in communist counties
Precisely. I never thought I would see the day
How about you come to understand what communism really is
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