Posted on 01/09/2008 6:14:40 AM PST by NYer
Because there's hardly any left! There's less than 150,000 in the entire country.
“There’s less than 150,000 in the entire country.”
Fewer, grasshopper, fewer! :)
The Sunnis and the Shiites have been remarkably successful.
You know, the irony of the Iranian situation with Christians is that before the Bush Administration we allowed them in here, but no longer. Its rather like the present situation with Iraqi “refugees”. Essentially, the Bush administration, with the able assistance of Catholic Charities, is delivering Mohammedan Iraqis around the country and handing the bill to local taxpayers (though to be fair to those Iraqis, all they seem to want to do is get a job, unlike some other favored Mohammedans) but the Christian Iraqis need not apply.
And to your self as well, Bro! :)
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The man hasn’t been proven to have done that.
Yes I do. He also reads the Bible for guidance.....
Not only that, but Iran is useful to him at the moment.
God willing, Putin WILL become like Nicholas II the Holy Tsar-Martyr.......Nicholas II defended the Orthodox everywhere, and defended the interests of the Church.............
Proof is for mathematics and logic. Truth is for reality and practical men. And practically speaking, everyone knows Putin is a Iran-arming, dissident-poisoning, KGB goon.
It absolutely amazes me that when a Russian comes along who:
A. Wants to see Russia restored to greatness
B. Supports the Church
C. Doesn’t let the US Government dominate and control him, or his country
That he gets called a goon, etc.
Putin doesn’t like terrorism any more than we do, but he is going to run his country. Not the USA.
“God willing, Putin WILL become like Nicholas II the Holy Tsar-Martyr.......Nicholas II defended the Orthodox everywhere, and defended the interests of the Church.............”
It would be hard to be opposed to Putin if he really became like the Tsar-Martyr, or if his faith became as strong as that demonstrated by the martyred Grand Duchesses, including +Elizabeth. The Tsar-Martyr did indeed defend the Faith as did many of his predecessors. They were the autocrats of Holy Russia. Can that happen again? Well certainly there can be an autocracy but will there ever be a Holy Russia again? Autocracy in secular Russia is or would be dangerous beyond words. That said, despite my “Greekiness” I too can pray for a return of Holy Russia.
He isn't running his own country, he is giving nuclear technology and fuel and missiles to Ahmadinejad's Iran.
Rest assured, the return address when that bill comes do will include every mother's son among the puppet masters, who think they are oh so clever.
They could have had lasting US friendship for a song. Instead they chose this. They will reap a whirlwind, and burn in hell.
Lenin was neither Christian, Russian, nor a resident of Nice.
His policies owe more to Tsar Alexander the Third than to Nicholas.
Further There should be one Russian church, and there is. Those holding out on church properties are schismatics plain and simple.
if one reads between the lines the argument for ‘the Russians don’t own it’ are that the French government does.
I agree! Unfortunately, there are people who would try to keep the Church divided.
My comment was a sarcastic reference to the moslem practice of claiming “holy sites” wherever they want by claiming Mohammed took a crap or stopped there for Bar-B-Que. For instance the temple mount in Jerusalem. Sorry if it was too esoteric.
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