“while Russia has outlawed homosexuals, abortion and protestants and jehovas witnesses, evangelicals and mormons and moslems. “
Protestants and evangelicals are the same as the other things on your list?
What?
You can't make this stuff up. History repeats itself in a never ending spiral.
Best analogy is the Roman Church superceding the Roman empire. The Russian Orthodx Church is running the board in Russia now. They are a monopoly and don't want competition. They view the western european protestant revolution as a heretical aberration of history. Average americans can't conceive of this type of culture. We are ingrained with the mantra of "religious freedom for all" and we are taught to equivocate Protestant and Catholics and Mormon and Church of Christ as all the same. Scientology gets to be a non taxed church as designated by the US IRS - not because it is a Christian denomination.
Look back 500 or so years to the Cathars and how long it took to cut them out root, stem and branch. The Spanish and Italian and German Inquisitions were not all about Islam as much as the Cathar Waldensian heresies that spread like wildfire.
Just a fyi heads up. We are in for more interesting times - and since our american laws and culture now celebreate diversity and pluralism we can't kick out the Russian/Greek Orthodx for religious reasons. Visualize the KGB reborn as the Orthodox Church - that is the nightmare we are facing.