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Posted on 10/12/2009 2:33:05 PM PDT by kronos77
The search for an identity that began after the collapse of Communism remains a critical question for Russians. The Orthodox Church is the only institution that unites Russians with their “near abroad” and has survived throughout the country’s long history. Today, the state needs the church much more than vice-versa.
When foreigners convert to Orthodoxy, more often than not it is because they are impressed by the splendour and majesty of Russian liturgy.
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They appreciate that strict Orthodox priests do not connive at human weaknesses or play up to the individual, accustomed to indulgence. They are attracted by the centuries-old spiritual tradition, which is inevitably conservative and inflexible but all the stronger for that.
It stands in stark contrast to the “flexibility” of Western Churches adapting to changing circumstances, which in many ways has left them today in a “social ghetto”.
The Russian faith, like the Russian revolution and like life in Russia itself, never condescends to the individual.
In the 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet system, the Russian Church has been rebuilt from ruins inhabited by shuffling old women and somewhat eccentric zealots into the most powerful body on the post-Soviet stage.
No other Russian social institution has experienced such a rising from the ashes. And no other country has seen such an obvious revival of faith as has occurred in Russia.
Just recently the Kursk Root icon, one of the most revered Russian icons – the icon of “Russian émigrés” – returned to Russia for a few days for the first time since 1920.
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They are run by the KGB Putin and his neo-Soviet siloviki.
No. They are not.
My best friend married a wonderful Russian Orthodox gal, the wedding ceremony was interesting. As best man I was the one to put the ring on her finger for the first time.
They are still run by the same people who were spies for the Soviets! Like the KGB, they simply said, we are not communists anymore, now we are “ex-communists!” The KGB-run Russian “orthodox church” is nothing but an arm of neo-Soviet revanchist Muscovite imperialism.
What you just said is an insult to Christians.
Say, your presidents name is Hussein, isn it?
Ping!
Even with a Hussein for President, the USA is still a greater country than whatever piece of crap country you come from, comrade!
The Church of Moscow is a den of snakes. I went to a funeral and was apalled to hear this so called “priest” parrot the Kremlin line by lecturing at the repast how evil the US was for genocide against indians!
Can you believe that?
Were it not my respect for the family, I would have thrown the plate of kapusta in his face.
“To call the Russian “church” Christian is an insult to real Christians.”
150,000,000 Russian Orthodox Christians, TG, 150,000,000! You are a perfect example of why aggressively chauvinistic Americans who claim to be “Real Christians” are so, well, loathed, or alternatively laughed at, throughout the world!
“Even with a Hussein for President, the USA is still a greater country than whatever piece of crap country you come from, comrade!”
What country does he come from TG? How do you know that the USA, an immoral, secularized, irreligious cesspool whose “Hollywood culture” is a cancer across the planet, the logical result of the heretical preaching which has gone on here the past 150 years or so, is a “greater country” than where he’s from? Look at the mess American “Christianity” has made of this country! You’re proud of that? You have the nerve and the arrogant pride to do anything beyond getting down on your knees and begging God not to destroy this country for its sins?
Surely there are at least some real Christians among the rank and file laity.
You should have told him what Dmitry Pavlutsky did to the Chukchi people.
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