Putin wants Russia to succeed at what? Resurrecting the totalitarian Soviet EVIL EMPIRE?
Putin does not love Russia , he loves the Soviet Union, the EVIL EMPIRE.
Putin fights islamic terrorists by sending muslim Chechens into Georgia and Ukraine to slaughter Christians? By arming Sudan? By supplying the ayatollahs with enriched uranium?
Putin has gained allies? Whom? The Chi-coms? Daniel Ortega? Nauru?
Putin wants capitalism by nationalizing oil companies, the entire media and all banking?
Putin is the tyrant Obama only dreams of being. Should we wish for Obama to show us the same kind of “love” as Putin shows Russia? I sure don't.
Pinworthy post.
Nevertheless, at a recent sports event at Easter, half the stadium roared out to the other half, “Christ is risen!”; and the other side roared back (the traditional reponse), “He is risen indeed!”
Not only wouldn’t that have happened in the old USSR, but I doubt it would happen today at an NFL game (or even be allowed).
Russians are discovering Christianity almost as something new (and yet an old part of their culture).
We are abandoning Christianity as something old (and yet an old part of our culture).