Is Russia more Christian than the United States? Medvedev might just say Yes!

Putin with his government is doing well as oil and gas pipe manager and protector of oligarchic interests; all others goals are secondary ones. Destroyed by Yeltsin and his liberal democratic gang Soviet industry and agriculture left tens millions jobless while several dozens chosen persons became super rich, education system, science, and medicine is degrading, all economy evolves around selling natural resources. Free market and liberastic paradigm was deadly cure from Communism.

Putin is no saint. But the US is now a far more powerful force for revolutionary atheism than Russia. That is, when we're not installing new governments that recognize Islam as the law of the land, as we have done in Iraq and Kosovo.

Even in the 1960s, astronauts were worried about whether Madalyn Murray O'Hair would successfully sue to stop their Christian activities in space.

In the 2000s, cosmonauts were displaying icons and crucifixes in Zero-G.

Sure you can be a Christian in Russia, just so long as you join the church which the KGB ran and which is still run by those who served the KGB, and still serve Putin and his Chekists who have never denounced the KGB, lament the collapse of the EVIL EMPIRE, and are still proud of their unswerving lifelong service to Soviet Communism. If you will not join their KGB “church,” then you will be persecuted, that is unless you are muslim, buddhist, or a jew, the other officially recognized religions of Russia.

That a political leader is openly religious is just common sense. It is an evidence of America’s decline that an elected leader here can skip church on a major holiday and not suffer a massive opprobium, while a de-facto dictator in Russia either genuinely shares the religion of his country or at least considers it unsafe to flout it.

Either way, a very good sign for Russia, awful sign for the US.

Russia is experiencing a sustained religious revival quite apart from what Putin and Medvedev do. Also, the Soviet government is directly responsible for the near-destruction of the Christian identity of Russia, so it comes naturally for the government of Russia to allocate funds to restore that injustice. The comparisons to the US laws that separate government and religion funds are simply out of context, since America (so far) has not suffered from militant Atheist dictatorship.

Yes, as Dumb_Ox noted, however glorious America’s past is as a beacon of freedom; however dark Russia’s past is as a overscale jailhouse, at this point it is the EU that is emerging as a new force for militant Atheism, and Obama’s US closely second.

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