Are "defending" "Holy Russia" by invading Ukraine. Idiocy
Young Russians:
Posted on 03/30/2024 6:27:26 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Russian Orthodox Church this week approved a document declaring its country's self-described "special military operation" against Ukraine as a "holy war" being waged to protect Russia's "spiritual space."
The declaration was made in a document approved during a gathering of the World Russian People's Council, which brought religious, cultural, and political figures together at the Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, reports Newsweek.
"From a spiritual and moral point of view, the special military operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, are defending the single spiritual space of Holy Russia," said the document, released under the heading of "special military operation," the Kremlin's official term for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Thanks, Lightman!
Overdue...
Are "defending" "Holy Russia" by invading Ukraine. Idiocy
Young Russians:
The Russian Orthodox Church does whatever Putin tells it to do.
Whenever you screw around with another country’s access to the sea, it means war. Always.
They realize that opposing Putin is probably not good for their health.
Yup. Russian Orthodox Church was subservient to the tsars, and is now subservient to Putin. Not a surprise, since the church leadership was completely infiltrated by the KGB during the Soviet years.
Forbes reported on 20 February 2009 that, "Kirill, who was the Metropolitan of Smolensk, succeeds Alexei II who died in December after 18 years as head of the Russian Church. According to material from the Soviet archives, Kirill was a KGB agent (as was Alexei). This means he was more than just an informer, of whom there were millions in the Soviet Union. He was an active officer of the organization. Neither Kirill nor Alexei ever acknowledged or apologized for their ties with the security agencies.
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico.[2]: 68 [9][10] In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.
The OCA has its origins in a mission established by eight Russian Orthodox monks in Alaska, then part of Russian America, in 1794. This grew into a full diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. By the late 19th century, the Russian Orthodox Church had grown in other areas of the United States due to the arrival of immigrants from areas of Eastern and Central Europe, many of them formerly of the Eastern Catholic Churches ("Greek Catholics"), and from the Middle East. These immigrants, regardless of nationality or ethnic background, were united under a single North American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow directed all Russian Orthodox churches outside of Russia to govern themselves autonomously.[11] Orthodox churches in America became a self-governing Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America in 1924 under the leadership of Metropolitan Platon (Rozhdestvensky), popularly called the Metropolia (from Russian: митрополия). The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America was granted autocephaly by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1970, and renamed the Orthodox Church in America. Its hierarchs are part of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America. While the OCA is in full communion with most Eastern Orthodox churches in the world, the OCA's autocephaly is not fully recognized.
Unlike most Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States, the OCA does not have an affinity towards any particular foreign nationality, but most OCA members are ethnically Euro-American, and most OCA clergy are those who are born and raised in the United States. However, the OCA does have other minority ethnic dioceses for Romanian, Bulgarian, and Albanian immigrants. Additionally, as a consequence of history, certain ethnic groups (particularly Russian Americans, Ruthenian Americans and Alaska Natives) are disproportionately represented in the OCA compared to the general population. Liturgical and church traditions, such as forms of singing, liturgics, vestments, iconography, use of Church Slavonic, and architecture broadly reflect those of Russian Orthodoxy.
The OCA states that currently the Russian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Polish, Serbian, and Czech and Slovak churches recognize the autocephaly of the OCA.[8] Among the churches that do not recognize it is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which argues that the Russian Church did not have the authority to grant autocephaly, partly because the Russian Church at the time was considered to be heavily influenced by the Soviet government. The Ecumenical Patriarch also cites Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon, which asserted the jurisdiction of the bishop of Constantinople in dioceses located "among the barbarians" (i.e. outside the Roman Empire), as the source of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's authority in the matter.[12][13] The remaining churches do not recognize the OCA as autocephalous, although they do recognize the self-governing nature of the church. While the subject of political and ecclesiastical dispute, this controversy does not impair the communion between the OCA and the wider Eastern Orthodox Church.
The real battle today is spiritual, between good and evil. It used to be the lines between the two were easy to discern, but now evil is everywhere, having also invaded the Western World. Guard your thought processes as you sort through the fog brought by outside influencers who are after your minds; pray for Devine assistance as you ponder what is right and wrong, good and evil. Search for the Light and abhor darkness.
LOL, Russian Orthodox Church in action:
Costumed shaman actors pretending to be relevant
By declaring a "holy war" against a neighboring Orthodox country?
They should authorize the use of the Holy Hand Grenade. A couple of mega tons on the dancing Z homo should do it.
Bear in mind, Zelenskyy already made that church illegal.
several thoughts:
1. From much of what has been said now and before, the Russians consider places like Eastern Ukraine with heavy Russian populations and heritage, as their own, at least in spirit.
2. NATO’s constant encroachment on Russian borders is a spiritual threat as well as militarily and political.
3. The Russian Orthodox Church is a viable entity within Ukraine.
4. In the days of the Czars, the church and government were both powerful in their own right, and co-mingling of their hierarchy was evident. And that was true not just in Russia, but also the orthodox churches in other eastern European countries, and also between the Roman Catholic churches and governments in the rest of Europe. Oppression of the people by both state and church was not unusual. Many of our ancestors settled in America because of such oppression.
I am not aware of any Catholic priests or Protestant ministers who have blessed tanks, rockets, or artillery. They bless soldiers but not weapons of war.
Not cool. Holy Wars are the most terrible sort of wars men wage. Take no prisoners. Die for Christ.No one is talking about the third Rome prediction. Moscow is the Third Rome and must bring Christ to a degenerate Europe and save Constantinople. Hagia Sophia will be a cathedral again! Make the rule of Orthodox Christ the dominate force in Europe. The symbol of Russia is the two headed eagle of Byzantium (the second Rome) watch out if its replaced by a three headed eagle of the Third Rome. Russia sees its duty to save Europe from itself. By taking over churches, banning them, Ukraine has declared war on Orthodox Russia. Not cool.
So Russia is just like Al-Quedea, waging “jihad” against its enemies
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