I think the cold reality is that any person with an eye and ear for History realizes that decadence is the start of the decay of any society or nation.
Putin realizes that...even China. We’re on a very quick spiral downward. Aside from a few voices in the Catholic Church and some local pastors, no takes on the Gay and Lesbian lobby in this country.
But what nice about Capitalism, all things shake out. Homosexuality was considered a medical illness, with tons a research to back this up. The Gay lobby was successful in making in a normal lifestyle no longer with an ICD9 Code.
I’d like to think that Putin is sincere, but I think he simply realizes that he can rally his country thru the church better than he can otherwise.
Why not? He was brought up surrounded by the effects of godless society without hope. My mother was Russian Orthodox, and it seemed that the religion is much more spiritual and connected to its values than the RC church has become.
I can believe that it has influenced Putin. He's an intelligent, accomplished man who cares about his country. We should be so fortunate.
Correct, but that doesn’t mean Russian attitudes aren’t changing. The fact that Putin appeals to these ideals says something about how the Russians identify with them.
And mentioning China in all this is important. Nowhere is religious feeling growing faster than in China, and there is a large segment in the communist party who know their country is plagued by degeneracy because of the vacuous hole left in the culture after Mao demolished Confucianism. It will be a slow and gradual change of course, but the recent rhetoric surrounding the one-child policy indicates China may be leaning more toward Russia’s trajectory than ours.
I look around and see this reject basketballer Collins at the SOTU, I see unadulterated debauchery at the Grammy awards from the digusting pig that is Madonna, I see the crap they put in kids shows and the crap teachers spew in classrooms.
Whether we want to admit it or not, we are being Europeanized... and that will be devastating for America.
I'll take what I can get.
America is strange. Nominally, it's overwhelmingly religious/Christian. Practically, it's agnostic.