[iontheball]

While I do not support their closures, this action is against the Russian Orthodox Church, not Orthodox or Eastern Orthodox in general. It is simply false to portray this as an attack on the Orthodox faith as a whole.
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Yes, but why slip and slide around the issue that it’s an outright attack on religious worship nonetheless? Whatever denomination being attacked, it’s anti-christian and evil at its core. The writer is trying to point out the media and official silence in the West over this religious persecution. All dictators abhor organized religion, whichever manifestation it comes in.

[buwaya]

Attacking the church of Jim Jones would have been anti-Christian by your logic.

[Grzegorz 246]

“Whatever denomination being attacked, it's anti-christian and evil at its core.”

The rus nazi KGB “church” is not Christian at all.

[Petrosius]

Yes, but why slip and slide around the issue that it’s an outright attack on religious worship nonetheless? Whatever denomination being attacked, it’s anti-christian and evil at its core. The writer is trying to point out the media and official silence in the West over this religious persecution.

No, the author is trying to characterize restrictions on the Russian Orthodox Church with restrictions on the Orthodox faith in general. The restrictions here are not based on religion but on politics. It must be remembered that for the Orthodox, the church has always be subservient to the state; the church being almost a ministry of the state. Thus the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine is viewed as an arm of the Russian state. While regrettable, this is the source of the restrictions, not an attack on religion per se.