Posted on 07/01/2013 6:15:23 PM PDT by bad company
Moscow, July 1, Interfax – Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplain, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations, said Russia is moving towards maximum self-reliance and must become the center of global Christianity.
“It is not accidental that many see Russia as a defender of Christian ideals and traditional moral values, as a country that provides a real alternative to the cult of the golden calf and to a suicidal understanding of what freedom is,” Father Vsevolod writes in an article, published in the Rus Derzhavnaya newspaper on Monday.
Russia must start feeling it is the center of the Christian world, he writes. Only if it does will it become an accomplished nation. The rest is “first, petty and, second, self-destructive for it,” the priest said.
“Russia has told the world in clipped terms that it can definitely speak its own language, the language of a self-sufficient and strong nation, whose traditions and experience give it the right to walk its own way, to defend its own ideas of how society should be set up, and also to offer it to the world,” Fr. Vsevolod said.
However hard one tried to influence the state into following the opinions of narrow groups that link themselves to foreign trends and position themselves as the mouthpiece of “would-be Russia”, or “other Russia,” or “real Russia, nothing worked, he said.
“It is not accidental that we said in clear terms despite pressure coming from the West that we do want to protect children from early sexualization and from the propaganda of homosexuality. And we also said that support for foreign adoptions of Russian children is an extremely irrational step. We do not want these children, adopted by perverts, to lose the hope in which many of them were baptised, and to lose a normal life,” Fr. Vsevolod said.
I don’t know but there are a lot of Christians in China.
Get over it Vlady declared yourself Tsar dude LOL!
Tsar Vlady of how many numbers
I’m thinking of the Second Secret of Fatima, and Pope John Paul II’s focus on Mary and on Russia.
The Western nations, which cannot figure out how to keep heroin and cocaine pushers out of their grammar schools and prefer propaganda to truth, have birth controlled, aborted, and homosexualized themselves into demographic oblivion.
If Russia can reverse its population decline sufficiently to survive the threats of China and the Muslim World, it may inherit the earth.
I think it all now depends on private military.. and whose cross or emblem they bear.
Is it the one by “Miniter?”
“Russia is fated to become center of Christian world”
No other country seems to want that distinction.
O tempora, o mores.
Aye.
After the fall of Rome, Constantinople became important.
After the fall of Constantinople, Moscow became “The third Rome”
At least that is the way the Russians saw it.
And when Moscow fell to communism what city became the Fourth Rome?
Sounds like everything went full circle.
--The Primary Chronicle
You should know that!
Russian Empire 2.0.
It’s ridiculous. Putin is a murderer, and the Patriarch of the ROC is still a known former KGB agent. This is a nationalistic, shallow version of Christianity placed on an outward observance of “values,’ but an inward decay of death and destruction.
There is no ‘Christian King’ coming out of Russia. Just a Czar wannabe who has no problem murdering those who get in his way.
“And we also said that support for foreign adoptions of Russian children is an extremely irrational step.”
Much better to have Russian street urchins. (My cousin adopted a brother and sister - out on the street at 5 and 6). The older one, the boy, when asked to speak some Russian said in broken English “I never speak Russian again.”
“...and the Patriarch of the ROC is still a known former KGB agent.”
Uh, you’re thinking of the last Patriarch. That was the accusation used against him.
With the exception of a few small nations like Iceland and Switzerland, every other one is multicultural-izing themselves out of existence
In the back of my mind I hear a little voice saying "Moscow is the Third Rome. The first two have fallen, the third stands, a fourth there will not be."
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