Wrong: among other things, no Biblical Christian criminalizes the sharing of faith by any evangelical, and persecutes such for that and or political; reasons, and and baptism itself does not make one a Christian, much less as an infant. Which false gospel provides a false confidence that one is a Christian.
And of course, neither does any faithful Biblical Christian support LGBTQ nor abortion on demand for any reason, unless very very ignorant/deceived.
Russian Orthodox is favored in Russia because of its cultural history
Not just favored, but made the state church, forbidding evangelism by anyone else (not just cults and Islam), and distinctive historical doctrinal teachings of Roman Catholic as well its cousin of the Orthodox (which holds to most of them) are not what is manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels). but also because it's not a perverted western domination that has embraced the LGBT and pro-abortion agendas.
Which would mean it should support traditional conservative evangelicals, who most strongly esteem the Bible as the supreme authoritative and accurate word of God (and thus evangelize), which have long testified to being the most conservative major religious group (even) in America, including voting 80% for Trump, and even Romney (and would for Putin, if he would uphold the US constitution, but which he opposes), while polls of Russian find most are nominally orthodox, and only marginally more opposed (48 percent) than the non-Orthodox/nonbelievers (46 percent).
Even my own web site, despite its page with extensive examination and refutation, by the grace of God, of prohomosexual arguments, is likely blocked in Russia or inaccessible there. Of course, Google itself ignores that page.
Thus your constant recourse in attempting to justify the criminalization of even conservative evangelicals acting as such under Putin is sophistry. It is mainly in the interest of dictatorial control and thus seeking to quarantining (at the lest) any significant source that it cannot.
Yet we support his opposition to the LGBTQ movement, and opposition to abortion. Which are main reasons the Left of the West is working to also criminalize conservative evangelicals acting as such in the West. Yet which works to purify the church, exposing defectors like Andy Stanley, as well as our own degree of declension, as pilgrims in this foreign land.
| and baptism itself does not make one a Christian, much less as an infant. Which |
You're repeating PROPAGANDA. If that were true, why has Franklin Graham been embraced and allowed to speak in Russia?
https://baptist.org.ru/en/news/view/article/1606505
On July 28, 2021, a Reception was held in Moscow in honor of the arrival of the President of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association - Franklin Graham.
The event was organized by the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in cooperation with the Christian Center "Revival". Graham's working visit to Russia took place in preparation for the Hope Festival, which is scheduled to take place in July 2022. The reception program was led by Viktor Gamm - Evangelist and Regional Director of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association for the CIS and the Baltic States, Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Evangelism Department, Chairman of the Board of the Christian Center "Revival" (Moscow).
Franklin Graham: "Isn't it sad, though, that America's own morality has fallen so far that on this issue -- protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda -- Russia's standard is higher than our own?"
https://cne.news/article/2652-russian-evangelicals-happy-with-support-from-the-kremlin
Russian Evangelicals happy with support from the Kremlin
28-02-2023
CNE.news
The highest bishop of the Russian Union of Evangelical and Pentecostal churches (CEF) wants to serve the community during “this difficult time”.
Sergey Ryakhovsky visited the speech of President Putin last week and is happy with the Kremlin’s support.
On Tuesday, February 21st, Mr Putin used a highly anticipated speech to lash out at the West. According to Putin, there was no choice but to invade the neighbouring country as Kyiv was preparing an offensive in the eastern Donbas region with military help from the West. According to him, Russia cannot be defeated. “The existence of our country is at stake,” he said.
In the speech, Putin proposed creating a special state fund to assist the families of Russian soldiers who died during the war. The head of the Russian Evangelicals, Mr Ryakhovsky, was pleased with this. “I believe that the evangelical community needs to organise close interaction with the foundation on the spiritual restoration of the voiced category of citizens”, IRP News reports.
Mr Putin also addressed Western Christianity and criticised the Church of England, which considers the use of gender-neutral terms for God. “What can I say? May God forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Mr Ryakhovsky shares this thesis, IRP reports. “The Bible says that marriage is exclusively the union of a man and a woman, there are no same-sex marriages, and there is no reason to talk about the gender neutrality of God.”
According to Ryakhovsky, the Russian Evangelicals have “a unique opportunity to engage in the spirituality of our people. Promote spiritual, moral, family and social values. Serve the community during this difficult time.”