Russia's Next Weapon: A Military Church

Russian Faith ^ | 11/11/18 | Michael Peck

[marshmallow]

The walls of the military church are made in the color of the standard Russian missile system and armored vehicle. From the inside, the walls are decorated with paintings of battle scenes from military history and texts from the Holy Scriptures. The projected height is 311 feet tall, and it is designed to hold 6,000 people. "The modern Russian serviceman cannot be shaped without shaping lofty spirituality in him,”

Meet Vladimir Putin's newest weapon: a church.

The Russian military plans to build a military church to bolster the spiritual values of its armed forces. Construction will soon begin of the Main Church of the Armed Forces, to be erected in Patriot Park outside Moscow, according to Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, deputy defense minister and chief of the armed forces’ Main Military-Political Directorate, a new organization responsible for political education of the troops.

The “new church will be one more example of the people’s unity around the idea of patriotism, love, and devotion to our Motherland,” Kartapolov told Russian journalists.

To say the church, dubbed by some as the “Khaki Temple,” will have a martial air would be an understatement. “The walls of the military church are really made in the color of the standard Russian missile system and armored vehicle,” according to the Russian newspaper The Independent [Google English translation here ] “...From the inside, the walls are decorated with paintings with battle scenes from military history and texts from the Holy Scriptures. The projected height is 95 meters [311 feet] and is designed for 6,000 people.”

[Viking2002]

Me, too. Opening and closing the bolt to check for slide = amen.

[RedStateRocker]

It turns out, the problem was never that the Russians were communist, but that the communists were Russian.

[NRx]

There is much to admire about Russian Orthodoxy. But its conflation of nationalism with Christianity is disturbing. Someone needs to remind them that ethnophylatism is a condemned heresy.

[dfwgator]

It turns out, the problem was never that the Russians were communist, but that the communists were Russian.

The worst one of all, was Georgian.

[NRx]

Orthodox Christians generally don’t do statues.

[RedStateRocker]

True, that.

[Salvation]

Will many leave the Russian Orthodox Church because of this?

[Celtic Conservative]

They make up for it with their portraits and murals.

CC

[GOPJ]

I think it’s a good idea.

[moose07]

St. Mosin of nagant church.
Kalashnikov Kathedral
Sts. Mikoyan and gureyivich chapel.
Our lady of infinite ammunition.

Thank you for today's brain worm. :)

[jmacusa]

How is a nation a “First World state’’ with a “Third World economy”’? Seems a contradiction in terms and reality.

[jmacusa]

Our Lady of Katusha.

[Jumper]

One of personal favorites, “Onward Christian Soldiers” given on moral authority of God. This armor is would most likely transform Russia into One Nation under God and in all likelihood push away from Communism and at further odds with China.

[daniel1212]

Will many leave the Russian Orthodox Church because of this?

Hardly -few ROs even go to church much - while that site is not your friend (nor is Acts and the NT epistles ):

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[daniel1212]

How is a nation a “First World state’’ with a “Third World economy”’? Seems a contradiction in terms and reality.

I think he meant “First World status" as regards world military power. Think nukes.

[daniel1212]

I pray to St. Nagant once in awhile Yet which is one of many things not in Scripture.

[daniel1212]

Our lady of infinite ammunition Funny, but there are already multitudes of adulatory titles, attributes and glories given to Mary, far above that which is written (which we are not to do: 1 Co. 4:6).

[robowombat]

Russia has all the institutions and history of a major European nation. However it is almost totally dependent on exports of oil and gas for foreign exchange similar to Iran or Iraq,

[Celtic Conservative]

Lighten up, francis.

CC

[jmacusa]

Nukes are all they've got. The Russkies are using late 70’s and 80’s equipment and technology. When the USSR fell apart no one was interested in the ‘’Glorious Red Army’’ anymore. All that “Patriotic War For The Motherland’’ was so much twaddle. All anyone wanted to do was become a ‘’bizinessman’’. Get rich selling off the collective farm and all the equipment they could. Including what ever military hardware they could. Russians are thieves at heart. A nation of prostitutes of every stripe and entirely with out scruples.