Posted on 08/27/2022 4:29:38 PM PDT by Vlad0
Yep, we all know there is some of that that shapes Christian History and inspires some to use force in defense of Christianity.
Pope Julius II – the warrior pope
However YOU can choose to support the Communist Pope Frank, a GloboHomoNazi favorite Pope!
You may have noticed that the weapons that Russia is using to fight US Sanctions are Capitalism, the Free Market, and Currency Stability, and Russia invested in building Norstream 1&2 because ... Capitalism.
*MAGA First/Anti-War/Anti-Globalist Ping*
If you want on or off this list, please let me know.
Poland’s first tanks are arriving this year. Your disdain for the most conservative country in Europe, Duda’s Poland, is quite revealing in where your loyalties lie.
“Weird how no one else on this thread knew that.”
I’m here to inform and enlighten.
I don’t have to support Pope Francis to oppose Vladimir Putin.
Are you saying Putin is your choice for Pope?
Oh I see Putin like Julius, is bringing Christianity to already Christian Ukraine.
And Pope Putin has brought Muslim Syrians to Europe to kill Christians.
With communist North Korean atheists on the way to kill European Christians.
Is that what Pope Julius did? I missed it.
Bump!
Interesting that all of those mentioned in your post as well as just about all of the major players in this from the non-Russian side seem to be of a specific ethnicity as if they had some specific ethnic interest in this of some sort. Just too many of them for all of this to be coincidental.
“...Because that is what Communism is about, Economics...”
Communism is about power and maintaining it. It is about economics in theory. It is about power defacto.
Has Bible study gone out of fashion? Since when was building new churches or cathedrals ever relevant to anything?
You can’t guarantee your way into Heaven just by putting on an ostentatious church-building show and carrying on breaking the Commandments in order to enrich yourself - no matter how many historical figures who mass-murdered and stole six days a week but put on a pious show on Sundays have attempted it before, it doesn’t work that way.
The New Testament is full of warnings against listening to such people, especially if the reason you listen to them is because you think they’ve got a point.
Timothy:
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
“He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.”
Two quotes that sum up Putin’s piety in a nutshell. He’s not righteous; he’s just a cynic who plays the revanchist gangster six days a week and pretends to be righteous on the seventh day.
Romans:
“For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”
And John couldn’t have made it clearer:
“Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him”
“No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.”
We can say the exact same thing about anybody who is trying to line their own pockets while building a church. Serving God is not about serving yourself - it really is that simple.
The evangelist who was demanding his flock buy him a Rolex watch fits the description of a false teacher, just as much as Kirill and Putin clearly do.
“...to guide Russia away from Communism...”
He guided Russia back to a Soviet nostalgia dictatorship. Like Stalin and Brezhnev, Putin wanted to retain power and not share it. How many decades do you think one man should serve?
How rich do you think one leader should be?
When the prima ballerina Olga Smirnova fled Russia earlier this year, it was a real case of Soviet nostalgia just as their best dancers fled during the old Cold War.
“How many decades do you think one man should serve?”
That should remain up to the Russian people. Putin has consistently held an 80% approval rating during his reign, that speaks for itself.
“The one thing that is NOT bullshit is, Russia covets Ukraine’s coast, grain, mineral assets, technology and manufacturing capabilities, and manpower. It’s priced up the host of war, it’s priced up the trillions of rubles it stands to gain, and it decided the likely benefit outweighed the likely cost.”
Your comment brought clarity to those confused by Russian propaganda
“You may have noticed that the weapons that Russia is using to fight US Sanctions are Capitalism, the Free Market, and Currency Stability, and Russia invested in building Norstream 1&2 because ... Capitalism.”
Gazprom, a STATE-OWNED enterprise, was the major investor in Nordstream. As such, Gazprom is controlled by the state (i.e., Russia), and operates on behalf of the state. Any income generated by its operations goes to the state, rather than to private investors, which would generally be the case with capitalism. During the days of the USSR the Soviets sold energy, weapons, food, and machinery to willing buyers. Was that communism, or capitalism? While today Russia may have distanced itself from its communist history, it is more a fascist state than a capitalist, free-enterprise state. Thus, today Russia is as fascist as Italy and Germany were in the 1930s and 1940s, but sans the snappy uniforms.
“That should remain up to the Russian people. Putin has consistently held an 80% approval rating during his reign, that speaks for itself.”
Does it? Saddam Hussein enjoyed a 99% approval rating from the Iraqi people before he got his ass kicked and the Iraqi people felt more comfortable in voicing their opinion.
The fact that in Moscow, peaceful protesters against the invasion are arrested speaks for itself. They face seven-year sentences. And you defend that dictator. The Russian people are free to show their overwhelming support but not their opposition. I suppose you believe the North Koreans are also enthusiastic supporters of their government.
Pretty dang sad…
In Moscow one doesn’t have to enter the Kremlin or tussle with the police to get arrested.
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