Posted on 11/21/2018 6:41:07 PM PST by marshmallow
"The State is now ready to go to war over the Church."
TRANSCRIPT:
Alright there, everyone, Russian president Vladimir Putin is vowing to defend Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries in war-torn Ukraine, a political rhetoric we have not heard in centuries, and what it means for our current global context. That is what we'll be talking about on today's video.
You know, as an Orthodox Christian, this really is one of the saddest stories I've had to report on in all the issues and all the events that we've covered together over the last two years. I don't know how many of you are aware of what's going on in Eastern Orthodox Church, but it really is quite distressing, and, indeed, it's becoming rather dangerous in many respects. I read a number of commentaries on the whole situation of late, but what I find most fascinating in these commentaries is how they seem to have actually overlooked what is perhaps the single most important development going on right now, as we speak, in the midst of all of this. And I will get to that in a moment.
Let me give you some background of what's going on here between Russia and the Ukraine in terms of the Orthodox Church. I'm sure many of you remember what is considered, more or less, the start of the whole Ukrainian Civil War, which was the gun fight that erupted between police and anti-government protesters in Maidan Square in Central Kiev. This is back, now, in 2014. In fact, the protesters accused the government of opening fire on them and shooting indiscriminately. Whatever was the case, whatever happened, dozens of people were, tragically, killed. This prompted, of course, this mass backlash among the citizens of Ukraine, which then, in turn, caused the then-president Viktor........
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But he is really PO’D about not getting his man to take over Interpol. The US and U.K...and others put a halt to that crap.
All while leading the nation with the highest abortion rate in the world.
The end is neigh.
This is not good, for Russia, Ukraine or the Orthodox Church.
I was astounded to discover that religion - specifically, Orthodox Christianity - was front and center in the lives of all 16th Century Russians, from peasants to emperors.
Amazingly, Ivan was devoutly religious, and zealously anti-Lutheran, and he wrote several scholarly essays that were read and discussed in all the countries of northern and central Europe.
Surprise, Putin defends the Russian Orthodox Church of Putin Patriarchate
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