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Posted on 10/06/2015 7:30:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Few Western foreign policy analysts have taken seriously Vladimir Putin's radical reorientation of Russia from communism back to Russian Orthodox Christianity.
Putin is perhaps uniquely qualified to discern that his nation's identity has been for centuries within a spiritual, distinctly Christian narrative and that a violent rending of Russia's historically religious roots led to utter disaster for the Russian peoples.
Son of a militant atheist and a pious mother, Putin lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of capitalism as defined in Russian terms. Though raised a secularist, he is now a devout Christian in the Russian Orthodox tradition and has devoted himself to the advancement of Christianity and the repudiation of what he sees as Western decadence. While some may be dismissive of Putin's Christian beliefs, there is no doubt that Christianity informs the way he now chooses to shape his own narrative and the story of his country.
Putin's religious values are rooted in Russian Orthodoxy and personal religious experiences, including his wife's car accident in 1993 and a life-threatening house fire in 1996. Just before a diplomatic trip to Israel, his mother gave him a baptismal cross. He said of the occasion, "I … put the cross around my neck. I have never taken it off since."
By his own testimony, Putin has had the personal conversion experience so often ridiculed by the communist regime in which he was embedded for so many years. He now is putting his recently found faith to work in Russia and abroad.
Perhaps nothing more powerfully symbolizes Putin's attempt to transition back to Russia's religious heritage than the recent installation of a huge bronze statue of Vladimir the Great on Borovitskaya Ploshchad, right next to the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
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Certainly not Obama.
Is this a trick question??? Obama is aiding and arming the terrorists who are torturing and murdering the Christians...
More like he's an opportunist who sees the opening from Western leaders abandoning Christianity.
I am not sure that there has been a more stupid question posed in a headline during my lifetime.
Who really looks at the history of the middle east for the last several thousand years and comes up with the notion that it is somehow possible to save it?
Hopefully there will be some left to save.
Not a chance our fairy boy, hell he even sent back a Christian Syrian family recently, but wants hundreds of thousands of Syrians who are probably all muslim here.
RE: he even sent back a Christian Syrian family recently,
Which news source reported this?
Certainly not obama:
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansThere are NO counter examples.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves Islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
was reading it on here.
Putin definitely understands the disaster on Russian culture and society that was the suppression of the Orthodox Church. He also understands that a renewed Orthodox Church can be a strong element of state power (like the Czars before him). He was, after all, a trained communist politician, so that’s how he thinks.
For the same reasons, I doubt he cares about Christians elsewhere, unless they are useful as a PR prop (which in this case, they are). Putin’s real views are unknown.
Certainly though - Obama will do nothing about protecting Christians.
The difference between the Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia, is that the Soviet Union positioned itself as the leader of the World Left, whereas Putin sees himself as the leader of the World Right.
True, whether he’s being sincere or not...........................
Hint: It won’t be Oblahblah
Nobody.
Islam will have its religious apartheid and “cleansing”.
Vlad the impaler might be a better deal for Christians than Obama the choom.
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