Go forth and die for Mother Russia and you will achieve salvation, conscripts!
Posted on 09/26/2022 7:53:16 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
You see, this is why I prefer Catholicism. All we need is confession.
Russia’s establishment has grown desperate enough in Ukraine to reach for the martyrdom argument. Patriarch Kirill, a Vladimir Putin crony, declared that Russian men who die for “Holy Russia” by participating in its genocide in Ukraine will have their sins “washed away”:
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If that sounds positively medieval, it is, literally. It’s the same indulgence granted during the Crusades. This is the kind of martyrdom teachings one no longer finds in Christianity but still find in radical forms of Islam and extremist political ideologies. In those ideologies, however, the martyrdom redounds to the faith or ideology rather than a temporal power, at least ostensibly. Kirill has sold out entirely for Putin and his unholy vision of imperial Russia, especially with his call to martyrdom for the cause of stamping out another civilization in favor of Kirill’s own.
In any event, Kirill’s pitch isn’t working. Putin’s full mobilization has created a massive public backlash especially in the regions where Putin hopes to draw the most manpower. Even in Moscow, however, Putin’s order has perhaps pushed the heretofore complacent Muscovites into open dissent:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Go forth and die for Mother Russia and you will achieve salvation, conscripts!
I prefer 72 virgins.
That teaching was NEVER found in Christianity.
What about the 72 virgins?
Yes the the type of “christianity” that Putin is supposedly defending..
Give me the virgins
You see, this is why I prefer Catholicism. All we need is confession.
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Pfft....please. Most Catholics don’t even think you need confession. Just go to Confession during any weekend they schedule it. You’ll have absolutely no problem getting seen.
Stop spammithe board with your State Department talking points. What is this, the 6th “Yay Ukraine!” article you’ve posted this morning???
Nobody goves a crap about that hellhole, other than the gazillion $$$ we’re dumping into politician’s coffers via the Giant Laundry Of Ukraine.
FTA: “You see, this is why I prefer Catholicism. All we need is confession.”
:)
“....Urban II’s strategy of absolving Crusaders of their sins ...”
‘Council of Clermont’
https://www.worldhistory.org/Council_of_Clermont/
“...It is a call to crusade promising those who go that they will be cleansed of all their sins; in other words, crusaders would go to heaven....”
‘The First Crusade: 2’
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/first-crusade-2
“,,,All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.....”
‘Pope Urban II’s Speech Calling for the First Crusade’
https://www1.cbn.com/spirituallife/calling-for-the-first-crusade
“...Individuals, and sometimes groups of people who died during the expedition were believed to have achieved martyrdom, whether they died of disease like Adhemar, bishop of Le Puy, or were killed as noncombatants or as captives who refused to renounce Christianity (like Raynaud Porchet), or, most controversially, when they were killed on the battlefield, like the knight Roger of Barneville.”
‘Martyrdom, Christian’
https://erenow.net/postclassical/crusades/619.php
You were saying?
More typical propaganda peddling and rinse and repeat.
‘Putin’s top priest tells Russians not to fear death amid mobilization’ Posted 9-24
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4095687/posts
So why doesn’t he volunteer to go die for mother russia instead of sending others.
You need to show due diligence and provide the entire quote from the Patriarch so ww can see the full context of it, and the paragraph before and after the main part of his statement would also be beneficial. This is so we can determine if he actually means if you are going to fight don’t worry rather than trying to get them to go and fight.
Context matters.
And the pics you show in the first post make you seem childish and not serious.
It's on a "Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia" level.
It's not for the Russians, who will never read these articles or be affected by them.
It's for the neoconned chumps in the West who salivate when The Daily Smell, The Grauniad or Hot Gas rings the latest "Hate RuZZia!!" bell.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
I don’t do requests. You’ll get over it.
Patriarch Kirill and all the priests, bishops and patriarchs like him must demonstrate their bona fides by putting on a uniform and going to the front line!! Now!!
We're still waiting!!!
Kirill, reads like an Imam. Preaching killing will clear your sins.
Why is there perpetual sex in their worldly paradise?
Dude - Kirill is a KGB plant, he’s not a true representative of Orthodoxy
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