I was born in 1955, nine years after the start of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. One of the constant refrains from that era was the claim that the Soviets represented “godless” communism. The false belief continues to frame how most Americans view modern Russia — i.e., it is a godless country. But that is a lie. The Russia of Vladimir Putin is a Christian nation, but respects and embraces its Muslim citizens.
I believe that one of the unstated reasons the West hates Russia is because the majority of the Russian people strongly embrace Eastern Orthodox theology. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which is squishy on the issue of the LBGTQ agenda and tarnished by a legion of pedophile Priests, the Eastern Orthodox Christians insist that God created man and woman and that homosexuality is a sin.
And the Eastern Orthodox Church is under an unrelenting attack by the regime of Vladimir Zelensky. For example, the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Metropolitan Pavlo, was arrested and confined to his residence for two months by a Ukrainian court after Ukraine’s top security agency SBU raided the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in March.
The Ukrainian military also is taking part in the effort to intimidate the Eastern Othodox Church:
On Easter night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 20 rockets from MLRS at Donetsk, according to the DPR representation to the JCCC. There was smoke in the area of the Donetsk Cathedral, where a liturgy was taking place, local authorities told TASS. One person was killed and two others were wounded as a result of the shelling of the area of the cathedral in central Donetsk, the DPR authorities added.
https://t.me/sonar_21/1903
Then there is video of the Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia Nikita being attacked on the street at night. (For some reason, YouTube decided this is age-restricted.)
Next up, two elderly women trying to attend a church service in Kiev are surrounded by a mob chanting, “Suitcase, station, Russia!” I guess this is the Ukrainian version of , “Love it or Leave it.” This is just one more example of the Ukrainian Government’s effort to seize Orthodox churches throughout Ukraine.
The effort to seize Orthodox churches is not confined to Kiev:
Subscribers from the region report that the Nazis from the “right sector” (67 brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) are occupying churches and temples in the north of Kharkov.
Among the churches occupied by militants are the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the village of Cherkasskiye Tishki) and the Nicholas Church (the village of Russkaya Lozovaya).
The following video shows another mob trying to prevent parishioners from entering the Cathedral in Kamianets Podilskyi:
An attempt to capture the cathedral is currently taking place in Kamianets-Podilskyi.
This is reported by the tg-channel of the UOC (Ukraine Orthodox church)
“According to eyewitnesses from the scene, the police do not respond to calls. Believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who are defending their temple, are trying to hand over subpoenas. Divine service is performed inside the temple, believers also pray in front of the cathedral.
Since yesterday, opponents of the UOC have been calling on local Facebook pages to come to the cathedral for an assault. At the same time, they spread false information about the Church,” the message says.
Here we have opponents to the Orthodox Church harassing a Priest trying to enter a Cathedral. He is physically assaulted and his hat is snatched from his head.
The West largely remains mute to these pervasive, evil attacks on the Orthodox faithful. It is demonic in the full sense of the word and many of those doing these attacks embrace the Nazi ideology and paganism. here are two beauties. The salute is not accidental.
This is not the first time in history that Eastern Orthodox Christians have been attacked. The question I have is why the political leaders in America and Europe are staying silent in the face of this widespread persecution?
There was a brazilian phylosopher and polemist named Olavo de Carvalho that once twitted, half-serious, half joking.
“Soon only two religions will be allowed in the west: Anus and Marijuana”.
He is not far from the truth IMHO.
There is no way that Ukraine wins the war against Russia. And all the smart people know it. They will just continue to put the Ukrainians and third party partisans through the meat grinder, so that all the intelligentsia can continue to siphon off US taxpayer dollars. Ten percent to the big guy.
Under Sleepy, senile, demented Joe, who is a Puerto Rican, African American, coal miner, bus driver, law professor (1st in his class!) from Scranton, PA, at the historically black college there (Uni of Delaware, or Delaware State?), He will also save us. Just like he saved Nelson Mandela as a civil rights warrior. Remember, if u don’t vote for him, u ain’t black, and poor kids are just are smart as white kids. I think that was from his eulogy of KKK grand wizard Robert Byrd. Nevermind he has never had a real job in his whole life.
There is no way that this reprobate pedophile imbecile got 81 million votes. Father of a crack-head who can’t remember where he left his laptop or gun that was fraudulently (no charges! Thanks US Justice system!) obtained.. and took showers with his daughter, who is now traumatically injured as a result. This m*****f**ker a sick pedo creep. Don’t forget “Doctor” Jill, who, in her incomprehensible doctoral thesis, argues about something. One commentator wrote “It was a a vacuum inside a blank inside an abyss”. Apologies to all the vacuums out there.
This is simply embarrassing. We are now a laughingstock around the world. It would be funny were it not so tragic.
One idiot, one legend in his own mind, has set us back 50 years…As BHO once said, don’t underestimate the ability of Sleepy Joe to f—k things up. Former US Sec of Defense Robert Gates indicated that this degenerate has been wrong on everything for the 40 years he “served” in government. Calling Mark Millie, oh sorry, he’s on the line with the CCP (Treason). SecDef Austin? Busy talking with Raytheon about their pronouns. James “bulldog” Mattis? Declined to medevac Green Berets/Afghan ODA 574 around Kandahar/Tarin Kowt….fucking coward, u ain’t no bulldog, u a poodle
We are now as corrupt as them, a third-world, banana republic.
There is no way that some dude in a cave in Afghanistan/Pakistan launched an airplane offensive on 9/11 and shut down US air defenses. See Able Danger/Able Warrior “exercises”. Limited hang-out. Who ordered this shutdown? Why was the NRO conducting an exercise that day that mirrored exactly what happened?
See the Smith/Mundt act, circa 2012
Are we men? Or are we mice?
I’m throwing a glimpse of the horoscope of the US in the current 7 years. You might marvel, how true the heavenly constellation marks the dissolution of any rationallity in DC.
But even more are to marvel the constellations of Xi’s visit, Russia’s new foreign policy, the BRICS Summit in August.
All that in ‘Tage und Äonen” (Days and Eons), so:
‘In The Kairos of the New World – Order’
https://mundanomaniac.blogspot.com/2023/04/in-kairos-of-new-world-order.html
The Covid hoax proved just how many gormless Lab Mice exist in the world. Fortunately many of those that contribute to the comments on this site remain “gormful”
Absolutely no question about that!
We are surrounded by the enemy, us.
Completely outgunned.
Bravo
Another MAGA cultist meltdown. Just like the risible Trump legal team he has no evidence , There is a reason they had fifty court cases thrown out, but no matter never let reason, facts, or empirical data get in the way of a delusion.
Yo! Dip wad! All 50 cases were thrown out on procedural grounds. NOT one was thrown out for lack of evidence! Evidence was never at issue!
Let me get you a stick to prop your ears up from collapsing on ear other!
as i understand it – dont procedural considerations come before evidence on the timeline (step1, step2, step3 …).
so saying that evidence was never an issue is like the owner of imaginary sticks of dynamite saying “it was the imaginary fuses the failed! the imaginary tnt was never the issue!”
surely 50 tries gave litigators at least one chance to learn from past effort and get procedure right?
Yours was a perfect summation of our world but only because I am picky I must point out that you left out of the list of Big Guy’s multiple identities the Greek one: he once called himself Bidenopoulos.
I have often wondered why their lies, instead of being perfected with practice have become more negligent, showing less creativity, imagination and, yes, even less literary talent. I vividly remember Bin Laden. He had about him a grandeur that made one think of Ghilgamesh. Picture the very tall, gaunt and unvanquishable warrior skipping through mountain peaks defying not only the most powerful military force on earth but even the enemy within: the treasonous Langerhans cells eating him alive! What did we get after him? The shoelace terrorist, the underwear bomber?
Did get sloppy because they lost valuable script writers or because they realized we were not worth the effort since we obviously bought anything they sold, no questions asked?
Mais conhecido como falso moralista seu passado o entrega.
In the West gay rights are a means to an end. We are witnessing the breakup of parental rights in the “ education system”. That’s the only agenda that matters. They are changing from critical thought “thinking” to a compliant batch of “social justice warriors “ indoctrinated into their a cult they control and manipulate. The extremes of sexualizing children at a young age is a model to take control of the child’s mind outside of the scope of parental consent. That’s it. Gays are just pawns in a larger agenda.
About Olavo de Carvalho:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/the_most_impressive_communistcrusher_youve_never_heard_of.html
You are forgetting the God Mammon.
Maybe it’s the money power issue. Again. Just a wild guess.
People must know the history of Christianity, before they can understand why a war between the two major fractions of Christianity (Orthodox and Catholic) still exists to this day.
Christianity was born in Palestine as Orthodox Christianity, and spread by the Disciples of Christ throughout the Roman Empire.
It spread first into Lebanon, then into Syria, Armenia, and into what would later become Turkey, but also into the west European part of the Roman Empire, of what is today Greece, Macedonia, Hungary, and finally reached Rome in Italy.
When Christianity reached Rome, Christians were persecuted and fled into the Catacombs of Rome.
At that time the ruling class of Rome was worshipping goods like Jupiter, Saturn and Venus, and had a moral behavior akin to present day degenerated western Culture.
The degenerated cultures of Rome lead to the fall of influence of Rome, and the Roman military commander (of Serbian origin) Constantine (later called the Great) was elected as Roman Emperor, after his many successful military campaigns into both Britain and Alemannia (Germany) + many of the other provinces of the Roman Empire.
Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, and moved the seat of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium where he built his Capitol, and called it Constantinople (Today Istanbul).
Constantine promoted the Orthodox Christianity throughout the Roman Empire and was instrumental in the collection of Holy Scriptures into what became the first written bible. His dynastic successor built the Christian Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in his honor, and the Cathedral soon became the center of Christianity in the roman Empire.
However the loss of Imperial Capital and religious status to Constantinople and Hagia Sophia angered Rome and especially the Papal State of the Vatican. Jealousy led the Papal state to conspire with the (German) King Frederik Barbarossa, resulting in the separation of the Roman Empire into the Eastern Roman Empire led by Empress Irene, and the new Western Holy Roman Empire, led by Emperor Frederik Barbarossa.
The fracture of the Roman Empire also led to the Great Schism, a separation of the Christian church into the original Orthodox Church of the eastern Roman Empire and the Catholic Church of the new western Holy Roman Empire.
Barbarossa had conquered most of Western Europe, and in the process made every defeated European King and Baron vassals to his empire and subject to Papal led Catholic Church.
The animosity toward the East Roman Empire has led the western Empire to conduct war against both the Muslim and Christian populations of the Eastern Roman Empires for Centuries. It started with the Catholic Crusades to regain control over Palestine, after the Muslim military leader Saladin, conquered most of the East Roman provinces in Middle East.
BTW: The Teutonic Crusaders did not come from Sweden, they came from Germany, but fleed out of the Holy land after being defeated by the Muslims, and roamed throughout Eastern Europe, all the way to Estonia, and along the Baltic Coast into Prussia (Presently located between Germany and Poland).
After the fall of the East Roman Empire to the Muslim Ottoman Empire, The Tsarist family of Russia became the protector of the Orthodox Christian Church.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the resurrected Russia once again became the protector of the Orthodox Christian Church. President Putin has a large painting of Tsar Peter the Great in his office.
The Holy Roman Empire is a Fascist conspiracy by the Royal Dynasties of Europe with the Vatican, which to this day, has erected successive Western European (Roman) Empires:
The 1st was the Empire of Charlemagne,
The 2nd was the Empire of Wilhelm II of Germany,
The 3rd was the NAZI Reich of Germany.
The 4th is the EU in collaboration with the US and UK.
That is why we see the reemergence of Neo NAZI mercenaries in the NATO proxy war against Russia, and the reemergence of religious war against Orthodox Christians in Ukraine.
As A Dane, I have no dog in this fight.
However my forefathers the Viking were spectators to this West vs East conflict when they sailed down the European and Russian rivers to trade in Constantinople and to fight as mercenaries for the Byzantium Kaiser in the Varangian Guard. Our forefathers even wrote Runes inside the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia. When the 1st Holy Roman Empire fell we changed from being Catholic Christians to become Lutheran Christians, along with the rest of the Viking (Nordic) populations.
I guess if the Catholic Church got rid of the Holy Spirit (The Vatican), we could all become one Christian church again, by recognizing only the Farther and the Son as our guidance and authority.
The Catholic Church did not support NAZI Germany. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Maybe you should read about the network helping NAZIs out of Germany via the US operations paperclips, to America, Canada, Israel, and Argentina.
What have we here? The Western Sunni/Shia devide?
Wise up folks. Remember Divide and Conquer.
Remember they started a religious war in the ME. Only recently did Russia and China succeeded in extinguishing it.
This looks to me like the beginning of a European religious war. Another one is shaping up in Israel.
Going back in history, who started a looting operation of Catholic Churches in England?
The attack on the Godhead is always the last desperate act of the Exploiters and Extractors. Recognize it for what it is and don’t let them divide you, as if you were sports fans rooting for their team, forgetting the most important thing, do onto others as …
@ Dane… I am talking around 1680.
i was not aware that vikings were around in the Medieval period. The use of indulgences in the 8th and 8th century was very small, it consisted of penances from pilgrimages etc. it was more redemptio a sort of commutation of penance to less demanding works, such as prayers, alms, fasts and even the payment of fixed sums of money depending on the various kinds of offences (tariff penances) became fashionable. But all this was applied in the context of sacramental discipline.even in the 10th century A substantial reduction of penance, but still within the sacramental context, already appears in the tenth century in connection with pious donations, pilgrimages and similar meritorious works; it is always a question of the reduction of personal and individual penances. The vikings looted purely for gold and because they never recognised the sanctity of other religions,, they were not stealing from the Pope, although the anglo-saxon church pledged allegiance to the pope it was not as fixed as later. Papal infallibility did not arise until the late 10th and 11th century onwards, there were also rifts between the Celtic and Roman Christian churches prior to the 9th and 10th centuries.
Here is something for you to have a look. Maybe it will teach you something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=412HAk-izmM
k. talaat said
Who started the looting operation of Catholic Churches in England?
My Reply: We did.
Vikings soon realized that the Catholic Churches were nothing but collecting franchises of indulgence fees, for the Papal State. So by plundering the Catholic Churches we actually plundered the Pope.
The corrupt ide of placing the Pope as an economic middle man between the people and Christ collided with the beliefs of the Nordic population. Vikings never believed in paying indulgence to the Pope to avoid a purgatory after their death, because they were all going to Valhalla after death.
That is why Catholicism was short lived in Nordic Nations.
Mettry Michael Lee, you are flat wrong.
You need to check out the 1933 Concordat between the Vatican and the Nazi Germany. Hitler said it was his most difficult negotiation ever. It followed the lines of an earlier Concordat between the Vatican and Mussolini, which muzzled the previously-free Catholic press, tamed Catholic labor unions, and gave extra power to the fascists. As for the 1933 Concordat, I’ve heard that a secret clause gave the Vatican exclusive power to evangelize in what was supposed to become the German puppet state. However, I do not have a source I can refer anyone to and I don’t recall where I first read that.
Anyway, the 1935 Concordat was the Vatican supporting the Nazis, in fact and as a legal document. Other evidence is abundant, but that’s enough for here. The “ratlines” of Catholic orders helping the Nazis to escape to South America are also a serious historical fact. Most Vatican apologists blame it all on Pope Pius XII and don’t want to discuss how the cardinals were up to their elbows in this dirty work.
A text full of falsehoods
Constantine centralized Christianity into the ROMAN Catholic Church. And he eliminated any Christian Sect within the reach of Roman hands so that the central message was consistent with Roman power.
A clever, strategic POLITICAL move.
Orthodox Romania was part of the Nazi axis.
Most Eastern European Nations are Fractured by Religious belief and Ethnicity. Especially Romania, Ukraine and Poland.
“by recognizing only the Farther and the Son as our guidance and authority.”
Not that simple: the ‘filioque’ (‘and son’) clause added to the Nicene creed is the essence of the theological dispute that led to the schism. As far as I can tell, the Orthodox reject this addition since it compromises God.
I have no religious feeling, so I don’t really understand the dispute or why it has caused so much trouble. Explanations welcome.
Disputes abounded (starting with calendar) but the Trinity was not one of them. An example:
The Western branch (to become the Catholic Church) wanted the priests to be celibate so that whatever wealth they amassed could not, upon their death, be passed on to their family/progeny but become property of the Catholic church.
The Eastern branch (to become Eastern Orthodox Church) did not (still does not) allow an unmarried man to be ordained as priest in order to filter out homosexuals and be able to claim that priests who advised the believers on family/marital matters knew what they were talking about. Upon his death, the property a priest received upon ordination (typically a house large enough to accommodate a family with several kids) is passed on to the next priest at the same church.
At the Council of Florence in the 1460’s the Orthodox Church did in fact agree to the Filioque (creativity also proceeds from the Son), after studying Plethon’s Greek archives first seen then in Florence.
On returning to Kiev the Czar had a fit and imprisoned the monks. What would that mean for my slaves if each thought individually and got uppity, he feared.
Therein lies a story indeed. We have come a long way since the Council.
“capax Dei”, “Imago viva Dei” follow from Filio-que.
Most of this is correct, so-so.
Christianity had 5 denominations, churches. Antioch, Alexandria, Jeruzalem, Constatinopole and Rome. Each wanted to be the dominant, although the Antioch church was the actual seat of Christianity. The rest you write is mumbo jumbo propaganda for those not versed in actual history
Thousands of soldiers from Ukraine’s Azov regiment gather to watch a Viking longboat burn at ceremony in memory of their fallen comrades
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11576251/Thousands-Ukraines-Azov-soldiers-burn-Viking-longboat-honour-comrades.html
from UK MSM Dec 2022.
So now we have Azov Vikings, as the Nazi’s before, fully on board with pre-christian paganism. Viking Runes at the Venice Doge Palace lions show their true colors- the Venetian banker billionaires of the time, NGO’s hired Viking berserkers. Today they have cost $100 billion and counting . Charlemagne then slaughtered the Vikings, ironically today Russia takes up Charlemagne’s hammer.
So to claim no dog in the show is barking up the wrong tree.
Your account of the origins of the Church of Christ does not square with historical evidence. Christianity born out of Palestine was not orthodoxy, but the Catholic Faith, as attested to by Saint Ignatius of Antioch(bishop and martyr) d. 107 A.D. ( a direct disciple of St. John the Apostle. Saint Ignatius was also consecrated a bishop by Saint Peter the Apostle, and succeeded him in the see of Antioch, where Saint Peter had established it, before moving on to Rome. It is also a tradition that Ignatius was the little boy whom Jesus gathered into the midst of the Apostles and Disciples and said, “unless you become as a child, you shall not enter the kingdom of Heaven!”)
In his writings, Saint Ignatius clearly states that Christ’s Church, whose members were first called Christians at Antioch, is called the Catholic Church. He did not invent this title, rather in his writings, wrote of it in such a way, to different places, that he expected his readers to know this term and what it means. These letters (epistles) that he wrote on his way to Rome, to be martyred by wild beasts for refusing to renounce the Faith, can be easily found and read.
I don’t doubt that what you states were written by Sct. Ignatius, and is what is being taught in Catholic Churches, and is what are written on Wikipedia.
However.
The first of Jesus´s disciples who arrived in Rome were Peter, and he was crucified in Rome in 68AD by Emperor Nero. The Jesuit Saint Ignatius Loyola died 40 years later in 107AD.
The Jesuits are the Military Order of the Vatican, started by Ignatius Loyola.
I don’t give much credit for “Historical evidence” written by a military agent of the Vatican state.
The Crusades started by the Roman Catholic Church were not only against Islam but also Orthodoxy, the Crusaders burned and looted Constantinople in the 4th century, then the Catholic forces of the Teutonic Knights led by the Kingdom of Sweden tried to conquer Northern Russia, then Napoleon’s army was also a combination of Catholic nations attacking to Russia, then WW1 and WW2 as today NATO forces are a combination of the Catholic nations of Europe. So, for more than a millennium, the Roman Catholic Church has been trying to destroy the Orthodoxy of Russia and Serbia
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As Larry has frequently reflected on the intellectual honesty and depth of intellectual prowess of his audience… I salute your comment Zina! Thank you.
Here is an excellent indepth scholary treatise of the genesis of that “Holy Roman Empire” created by the barbaric savages…
Voltaire in 1773 described it as : “This body which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
The video examines the creation of the massive ancient propaganda launched by the bloodthirsty spawn of Pépin the Short – Charlemagne https://www.bitchute.com/video/8ZhjkDx8iArV/
The historically accurate details are presented in the lecture notes (in pdf ) is available at https://www.docdroid.net/0CfMo7V/franks-romans-feudalism-and-doctrine-pdf
Thank you all the fellow eagles here.
Several inaccuracies here
The egregious Fourth Crusade which ended up taking and looting Constantinople, didn’t occur in the 4th century but in 1204
The Teutonic Knights which failed to conquer Novgorod were indeed the spear of Catholicism in the Polish and Baltic space – see the remarkable movie “Alexander Newsky” for a lively depiction of the “Battle on the Lake”, its score by Prokofiev including the original Latin anthem Vexilla Regis which had been used for three centuries by all Crusaders as a battle paean.
However, the kings of Sweden who 200 years later threatened northern Russia (the Gustav-Adolf e.g.) had converted to Lutheranism along with the rulers and subjects of Prussia.
And finally, the revolutionary-napoleonian armies which invaded the whole of Europe can hardly be described as Catholic armies. If anything they were striving for a French hegemony bent to destroy the political and religious statu quo and promote a secularist and republican agenda. They had a hard time implementing that program in Catholic Spain and Orthodox Russia alike.
WWI was pursued by Britain (non-Catholic) and France (led by mostly irreligious or anti-religious rulers, see Clemenceau). I doubt that the 1914 rulers of Germany may have been religiously motivated in any way.
WWII : the Nazis were openly anti-Christian (all denominations alike) and they acted accordingly.
Actually the National Socialists were NOT anti-Christian, the majority of German NS were RC/Protestant. Adolf Hitler was RC and was brought up on the Gospels and in fact could recite large tracts,if not all of it, by heart. When the National Socialists went int the Ukraine, the first thing they did was to open the Churches. Where they were at first unfamiliar with Orthodoxy (which would have been common of 99.99% of Westerners,then and still of now!) they learnt the intricacies involved and were in no way hostile.
You are correct.
Hitler was happy to let the Church exist so long as they cooperated, or at least stood back and kept their mouths shut.
Wink-wink, Nod-nod was the order of the day.
Croatian nazis in WW2 were staunch catholics and the priests were among the most motivated bunch. Also they ran the ratlines after WW2 where many nazis managed to escape to the west thanks to thier help. Poles were also catholics and many of them were in Hitlers army etc etc.
Don’t forget what the Bolsheviks did to churches and clergy in Russia. Synagogues were unmolested of course.
Surprise, surprise!
So far no mention here either in the essay or the comments fingering the real prime motivaters intent on the genocide of Christian church and clergy.
The west will never recover until that subject is addressed uninhibitedly.
All the otherwise smoke and mirrors is simply just that.
The traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church condemns homosexuality and is scandalized by those priests who have embraced it. Get that straight the next time you consider attacking the whole Church as following that demonic mob, OK? The rot in the Vatican that promotes it is about as Catholic as a cockroach. No REAL Catholic worth his salt would obey those committing sins crying out to Heaven for Vengeance per the Bible. They are fighting very hard to make that clear to the World, and I’m one of them! We don’t have to go to hell with those masquerading as Catholic!
Are you a troll or do you have a reading comprehension problem?
He said “squishy on the issue of the LBGTQ agenda and tarnished by a legion of pedophile Priests.”.
That sounds to this former Catholic like fair criticism rather than an attack on the “while church.”
I’m not, are you? Your the one with the reading problem. He said the Roman Catholic Church is squishy. BS to that BIG TIME. That church is the globalist ape of the the REAL Church, and I will not stand for anyone to confuse that seminal fact. The REAL Church still exists in the modern catacombs. It was NEVER squishy about its invariant TRADITIONAL moral teaching on faith and morals. That Church still exists, and its faithful are not what the article implied in any way, shape or form!
You need to write in all caps to make stronger point. And be more aggresive. Maybe burn an Orhodox Church, or beat up a priest.
You are correct.
I agree.
“The traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church condemns homosexuality and is scandalized by those priests who have embraced it.”
Meh, window dressing. The Catholic church has long been tolerant of pederasts and poofters. There are reports going back 800 years at least of kiddie fiddling clergy men.
The Roman Catholic Church is a fucken disgrace and anyone that adheres to their bullshit needs serious help in deprogramming. It is a sect, albeit a very large sect.
It’s like mafia, but much older, bigger, and richer. Also, more ruthless, and less honorable.
You are correct.
Globohomo uber alles.
Larry, I also recall silence about ISIS attacks on Christians and Christian churches in Syria.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/syria/
mentions nada about ISIS (and US-sponsored affiliates) attacks on Christians (and other minorities), but gets up in a lather that Syria is not LGBTQ+ friendly.
Don’t forget the Christians in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Occupied Palestine. All different branches of Orthodox Christianity.
https://apnews.com/article/christians-easter-attacks-netanyahu-jerusalem-e287dd6bad32573d1656eaea07223782
Does anyone honestly believe that the likes of wee George mission accomplished Bush or Tony Bliar for instance believe in a Christian God and then on their own manufactured lies go out and kill a million and createate tens of thousands amputees and mentally Ptsd disabled and a massive refugee crisis and expect their Holy Father to instruct St Peter fling open the gates to welcome them into Heaven. I say bullcrap money and power for themselves and their buddies is their religeon.
I have wondered, if the Christians are indeed correct in their beliefs, perhaps Russia is going to be the one to bring back the faith in God,
Apparently creator works in mysterious ways, and anything is possible.
Crazy times to live in. So sad to see the persecution, but humans seem love something to hate and history repeats… its sadly not going away untill we make it.
We talk about that a lot in my family, Russia being an instrument of God in these times ruled by the father-of-lies! As far as I’m concerned, Russia’s success on the Battlefield is because God is marching with them!
Frankly, I’ve wondered about that too.
The attack on the Christian Church will be severely punished by God. Such perversion as exists will be extinguished through the military defeat of Ukraine.
I believe that will be the case. “Russia will be an evangelist to the world”, said by no other than Catholic Bishop Sheen in 1955. You can watch his tv program on YouTube where he makes the prediction. https://youtu.be/w5iUYQ_yF_M?t=538
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_third_Rome
The Ashkenazis are demanding their pound of flesh. The war against Russia is driven by the Nudelmans, and the Blinkens, and the Schumers and co.
Bravo brother…. Once the plebs figure that one out something can change.
Doesn’t look good however.
Why?
Because if the acknowledge the fact that the Z-regime is persecuting religious entities they need to admit they are supporting an openly fascist regime.
The fact that Azov was banned by congress as fascist is to be buried and since quite some time the west pursued the line “somewhat nationalist but not sooooo bad altogether”.
Yeah, a bit like the “moderate” terrorists that were inserted in to Syria.
Thank you Larry. This war is as much spiritual as it is physical. God’s will will will win out.
Larry, you are 100 percent correct. Deep down, the pagan democracy-worshipping Satanists in Washington, D.C. hate Russia and her people because they are mostly Triune God-fearing Christians. Thank you once again for speaking the truth.
I would opine that it’s why the pagan self-interests of the big club also hate the ‘delporables’ in the US; and whether they’re warming seats in cocktail bars in Davos or dimly lit smoke filled rooms in the back passages of DC, the policies they inflict on the residents of ‘fly over country’ reflect that hatred. We could also add the manner in which the remoaners in London have punished the citizens of ‘little England’.
Selfless faith in something bigger is a threat to the power of the big club, since it distracts the little people from being divided and conquered and ultimately accepting their willful subservience to the self appointed gods of the big club.
https://rumble.com/vo0dwu-mass-psychosis-how-an-entire-population-becomes-mentally-ill.html
The same can be observed of loyalty to one’s family or community, which is why nuclear families, patriotism and conservatism in general are relentlessly ridiculed as old fashioned, unprogressive or indicators of latent racism or nationalism while we’re constantly brow beaten into accepting sexual perversion and illegal immigration/demographic replacement as new normals. How long will it be before paedophilia is normalized, with the thin end of the wedge being that it’s just being tolerant and understanding the suffering paedophiles are faced with everyday…
…and as usual, it’s the UN that will be the trojan horse: https://rumble.com/v2ixrh1-the-united-nations-just-lost-its-fking-mind-with-this-redacted-with-natali-.html
It ‘s without a doubt the darkest page of the Collective West after WW2. All out of hatred for Russia and I don’t believe in the Orthodox Church in particular. And unfortunately it’s not just the Govts who support the most disgusting regime after Nazi Germany but the majority of populations. For which we have to give credit to a disinformation campaign the likes of which no one has ever seen in the “free world.” Without free press the world becomes very dangerous! Isn’t that what happens in all Dictatorships?
Just this week the Kiev city council renamed a street in honor of Ulas Samchuk, anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator, editor of the Nazi newspaper «Volyn» and participant in the extermination of Jews in his city, Rovno in Ukraine. Samchuk’s newspaper in Rovno was published with thousands of copies and widely distributed. In his articles, Samchuk lied, incited and justified the murders and called for the extermination of the Jews. Samchuk wrote his anti-Jewish articles calmly observing the massacre of 25,000 Jews in Rovno, including 6,000 children. The Samchuk newspaper called the murder of Jews in Kiev a “great day”. Samchuk also wrote an article in honor of his idol – “Adolf Hitler”. In this article, Samchuk blamed “world Jewry” “for all the world’s ills like its idol Hitler, concluding that the extermination of the Jews will be completed as successfully as other combat missions of Adolf Hitler’s Wermacht and Wafen SS were successfully completed.”
That’s absolutely shocking and crazy. And the main stream media selectively deaf and blind. However, the truth (or the bulk of it) will eventually come out, probably after the defeat of Ukraine and the search for culprits begins.
Maybe if you contemplate a bit longer over the names of the current decision and policy makers in D. C. and the ones in power in “Keev” you get why they attack the church and Christianity, why they send countless kettle into the slaughterhouse and what motivation they have.
Larry, i think you fell in the same trap like the Saker and overstate the Religion part far too much.
It is mostly the Elites of the West that hates Russia with a Passion, given how godless those are, faith have nothing to do with their hate. The Religion is only for the gullible People in the West how still needed a Faith and a imaginary Father to act Morally right.
Looking into History, it appears to me that the Crusade against Russia only starts somewhere 300 Years ago as, as far as i it understand, the Russian czar starts to remove all the nobility in Russia, that happens also many time Jewish (Kagan, Nulands). Since then the West, mostly their Elites, have instigated one attack after another, starting with Napoleon, over with Lenin in the sealed Train from Frankfurt Main to Moscow (crude but successful version of a Color Revolution), to Hitler and the subsequent Cold War, down to the latest and hopefully last attempt in Ukraine.
The Western Elites are since ever, a petty, narcissistic, greedy and Evil bunch. Nearly non of them had ever Worked honest Work, are inwoven in petty squabbles over Land, people and Resources since at least the 15th century.
And since the France Revolution teach them to be more industrious then noble, they shift from petty nobles to be greedy capitalists ever since (hence the Weber revolutions in Germany and machine storming in England)
This is also something that infuriates me over the Elites in Russia, they seems to focus solely on the Government level of the Enemy but seems to fail completely to see the true enemy in the financial and industrial sector, like the Turn and Taxes, Fuggerer, Windsors (actually Saxon-Coburg…pure German line) and all the other big Houses of Europe.
Russia will have no peace until it works his way through those, and i mean by bullet. Put them all on the Block with all their children and relatives or their inherit will going on to wage this War like they do since over 300 Years now.
Catholics form approximately 10% of pre-2022 Ukraine’ population, based mostly in the west of Ukraine in the territories that were once ruled by Austria-Hungary. They are Uniates (named so after the 1596 Union of Brest) – Catholics by faith, but with Eastern Orthodox rites. There has been strife between the majority Orthodox and minority Catholic populations living on what is now Ukrainian territory ever since. Stepan Bandera’s father was a Uniate priest (Uniate clergy marry, just like Orthodox non-monastic clergy do). It is not at all surprising that the roots of the movement that overthrew the Yanukovich government in 2014 had its origins in Western Ukraine. This is very much also a religious war in Ukraine that the US and EU are ignoring.
U$ and €U are not at all ignorant that there is a war of religion, indeed one that was provoked and exploited, just like the war fought:
I think you put the finger on something with the Uniates roots in banderism.
Now dig a bit more , like the links with roman papacy and the US agency and you’ll find a pot of gold 🙂
Zionist Jews are unforgiving. Pogroms against Jews in Tsarist Russia and Stalin’s transgressions against “Cosmopolitans” are not forgotten and MUST be revenged on future Russian generations.
The Vatican is in the pockets of Rothschild (they financed the newly formed Vatican state in the 19th century) and is left alone. Otherwise the Inquisition of the late middle ages would be revenged today.
Are you saying that these “unforgiving” people want to take revenge on Russia on account of the former eras of pogroms, but are turning a blind eye to the followers of Stepan Bandera and his like-minded ? After Babi Yar (September 1941), Odessa (October 1941), Riga (Rumbula forest November 1941) ? This is hard to believe.
Could not what is currently happening to the Ukrainian population be construed as revenge?
Putin essentially banned Jews from public office and government contractors, by forbidding people with multiple passports from government service and security clearances. Only a few Russian Jews who forgo an Israeli passport (like Wagner PMC’s owner Prigozhyn) have a place at the top of Russian society now. Putin also forced out the Jews who acquired control over much of the country’s assets at the fall of the Soviet Union (the Seven Bankers – only one remains). Those oligarchs provided hundreds of million dollars a year to Jewish causes before.
The coalition between Zelensky’s regime and the Banderistas is tenuous and grounded in mutual need. It is temporary at best. Central Ukraine has deep connection to Ashkenazi (European) Jews – it was the Pale of Settlement (the area Jews were restricted to living in) before its inhabitants seized control of all Russia in the Revolution. Many of the Jews at the top levels of Biden’s administration have family roots in the Pale.
The dream is an Ersatz Israel in Ukraine, a homeland for the Ashkenazi with a deep water port on the Black Sea (Odessa). Zelensky has mentioned this multiple times. It is convenient to Israel and free from the domination of other Jewish groups with different values (Sephardim and Mizrahim). Soon it is likely to be free from Gentile domination as well, if the war with Russia continues to grind on.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
That, if you accept the sleight of the hand, that there the WAS a “hollycost”…in place of the “transfer agreement – by edwin black”.
Because if the hollycost is mostly theatre, then there is no comtradiction today either: it is another “by deception thou shall do war” op.
I recalled this recent comment from Alexander Dugin that seems to be on the money:
“In my opinion, we are participating in the last war. When we begin to truly live, we begin to understand that we are living for the last time. “Last” in the meaning of this war and in the meaning of the Victory – there is something far superior to politics in this. Technology. Economy. Resources. Strategy. Logistics. Our Victory is the victory of the people of God over the enemy of mankind.
We are not just fighting another civilisation. Which has a different religion or other faith. We are fighting a civilisation that hates religion. Which destroyed all traditional values. Which abolishes a person before our eyes. And he says that it should be pleasant and progressive. And those who do not agree are subjected to the most severe persecution.
This is a biblical war. Where are we, the people of God? We Russians are challenged.
And together with us the challenge is thrown to all mankind. In our face is humanity. Now the humanity of the spirit is fighting in the last battle with the human enemy. This means that we should have a corresponding victory. “
They were also silent about the persecution of the oldest Christian community in the world, in the Syrian Arab Republic. In fact, they sided with the Islamist scum who chopped off the heads of Christians and other minorities.
Pure evil!
Quite so.
Thank you for reminding about it.
All of this already happened in Yugoslavia. No one cared.
It is russian orthodox church not eastern orthodox church,there is only russian orthodox church in russia and in ukraine,this is extremely important to understand,because ukrainians who are orthodox christians go to russian orthodox church.This is extremely important to understand why russians say we and ukrainians are one people.If you speak russian and you are member of russian orthodox church(vast majority of ukrainians speak russian and are orthodox christians),then how they are not one people with russians.
This is western modus operandi of producing new nations.I am serbian-check what they were doing in former yugoslavia in last 50 years.
P.s.I am serbian orthodox christian and for us russian orthodox church is like a parent church and we call and deem russians brothers,we say serbia is our fatherland and russia is our motherland,now imagine ties
between russians and orthodox
ukrainians.
P.s.as a serb we always considered orthodox ukrainians our brothers and galician ukrainians as enemy
Contrary to roman catholic priests, Orthodox priests are allowed to marry. Because of that , like most Orthodox countries such as Greece , child abuse and pedophilia among priests is almost nonexistent
In addition they are open minded toward Islam and other religion while catholic church is rigid and sectarian.
That explains peaceful coexistence among religious and ethnical groups in Russia
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No sabes de lo que hablas.
La práctica totalidad de lo sacerdotes católicos pederastas son HOMOSEXUALES.
¿Estos que coño van a buscar casarse?
It is amazing how quickly in historical terms the LBQT+ and Woke thing has become the secular western religion that state power is now deployed to promote.
I was born a few years after you, Larry and at that time male homosexual acts were still illegal in the UK, as they were in most western countries. Although prosecutions of the type that had taken place against Oscar Wilde were not exactly commonplace by then and never were. In less than a lifetime through we have moved from illegality through tolerance into active promotion and now intolerance of criticism. A new state religion.
Last year, the Head of Security Services in the UK even tweeted that our values are better than Putin’s because “we” support the whole Pride agenda. As with all the western ideologies that have come before, our disgusting elites have decided that they have suddenly found nirvana on earth. They then believe that these new found values need to be imposed on everyone else and that anyone who fails to embrace them is evil and deserves to be bombed until they do. As with all the previous western ideologies that grew out of liberalism this one has the same potential to kill lots of innocent people.
In such a world, religious conservatives of all denominations can likely make common cause. If you are an Iranian Shia then you likely have far more values in common with Orthodox Christians, Catholics or Anglicans who still practise their religion according to scripture than with western liberals. Indeed, Christian and Islamic communities have often co-existed in history. It is no wonder that many parts of the Global South are deserting the west and feel revulsion at its new secular religion. Quite apart from the more practical aspects of western bullying combined with waning power not being a particularly helpful mix for an ally.
Great post Larry.
As a fundamentalist Baptist, I do not support either Catholic or Orthodox institutions. Most of their “traditions” are explicitly forbidden in the Bible, and they try to explain it away. But this, in the end, is an attack on God and people who are seeking Him, his Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Synagogue of Satan persecute any religion that does not openly embrace Satan. This is a spiritual war, as much as a physical one.
P.S. the catholic church has over a billion people on a road straight to hell. If you are really interested in Truth, and the Word of God, watch this video which shows from the Bible what it clearly says to do to get to heaven.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gFq9xJimHR8&pp=ygUndGhlIGJpYmxlIHdheSB0byBoZWF2ZW4gc3RldmVuIGFuZGVyc29u
zina :
The Crusades started by the Roman Catholic Church were not only against Islam but also Orthodoxy,..
Absolute nonsense.
a. The Crusades to the Levant were largely against the Muslim powers. The 4th Crusade which ended up with the sacking of Constantinople was instigated by a pretender to the Byzantine throne. The Crusaders went along because they ran out of funds. And this has ever been a sore point with the Orthodox, without in any way acknowledging their own role in the matter.
b. The Teutonic Knights were acting in defiance of the Popes. They may call themselves Christians but they were essentially a Germanic pagan force. They were universally condemned but it suits the Orthodox to bring this up on every occasion.
c. All his life, the late Pope John Paul II, wanted to visit Russia to effect a reconciliation. He was after all a Slav and deeply desired a union with his fellow Slavs. How many times was he rebuffed by Kirill the KGB man pretending to be a Bishop of the Church? JP2 would say things like: “The Catholic and the Orthodox Churches are the two lungs of Christendom”, wanted to return the icon of the Virgin of Kazan but all to no avail. The Orthodox should look in the mirror sometimes.
d. No Church which affirms the Creed can place the State in place of God in its worship but that is the impression one gets by looking at all the patriotic guff one sees from the Moscow patriarchy.
There is blame enough to go around but the Orthodox should not don the mantle of victimisation at every turn when it comes to the Catholics.
“No Church which affirms the Creed can place the State in place of God in its worship”.
Hear, hear. Nail on the head. Dragging the spiritual in the mud of politics. I see this as a potential pitfall in Russia’s multipolar order. Let people practice what they believe in the privacy of their own mind, don’t be making loyalty badges out of religious practices. Which is, incidentally, what Zelensky is doing.
Well, when Sikh extremists try to attack police in India and the Indian law officers respond, it is an attack on a religion. When extremist ideology is being spread by CIA affiliated jihadists in Uighur communities in China and the Chinese government steps in to counter it, it is an attack on religious freedom. But when a devout Christian baker refuses to make a wedding cake for a gay marriage as it offends his religion, he is punished for his religious beliefs in USA. When the Ukrainian Government attacks the Orthodox church, the champions of religious freedom think it is a right action since it is against Russia and is a “National Security” matter. Ditto when Israel attacks Muslims offering prayers in the Al Aqsa Mosque. Defense of religious freedom is just a ruse for the goons of the Woke West
For years, the Western media ignored the crimes committed by the Kiev regime against the civilians of Donbass. Civilians die almost every day in Donetsk, but this is not reported in the MSM. That is why it is naive to expect that the empire of lies will report on terror against the faithful of the Orthodox Church.
Russia will have to go all the way in Ukraine.
That has been my thinking all along.
The West created a coup to install a Western puppet nation.
Russia will install a satellite friendly to Russia. Ukraine will only be built if Russia takes it over. The West will turn it into failed Ukrainistan from which to export terrorism. Don’t believe me? Look at Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalis, Sudan. It doesn’t matter what religion you practice.
https://www.vesti.ru/article/3313273
Evstafiev about the monks sealed in the Lavra: this is an irrevocable hell
The day before, there were reports that the believers broke down the doors and entered the building of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, previously sealed by the reserve. Inside the premises, according to the Union of Orthodox Journalists, there were people locked up by the police.
In the program “Full Contact” on the radio “Vesti FM” and the platform “Looking” political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev noted that you can talk “both with bastards and with enemies, but not with insane ones.”
“In Ukraine, the degree of insanity is going through the roof,” he said.
The political scientist admitted that although he is not a church person, he was “reshaped” by the events in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra of recent days – in particular, reports that monks were “sealed” alive in its premises.
That is, people, the political scientist notes, were “buried alive,” because if they broke the seal, they would violate the law. According to him, this information, of course, needs to be verified.
“But if this is so, then this is irrevocable hell. Because to seal, bury those praying to God alive is already completely on the other side,” Evstafiev is convinced.
Political scientist and presenter Vladimir Solovyov agreed that such events evoke an eerie feeling of “absolute Satanism.”
Watch Russian Easter on YouTube . I love all the traditions and history. Once Catholic church broke away, it opened up a new can of warms. Protestantism started in Catholic church, which broke further in numerous other subsections. Orthodox church never split, it is true original. Putin rebuilt Orthodox Churches in Russia. He also understands that religious people are better than non religious. Russian Muslims and Russian Jews always lived there , they did not immigrate from Middle East. He always invites all 3 religions to state affairs, but Russian church always in the middle.
Why would the Western leadership speak up about the attacks? They have nothing to gain from doing so.
They stand in the proud tradition of the Teutonic Knights who converted the heathens in Eastern Europe to the Christian Faith. They would have converted the Russians, too, despite the fact that the Russians were already Christians – if the Russians hadn’t successfully defended against them. They followed the wrong ruler
They stand in the tradition of the English who converted the Irish – Irish who had been Roman Catholic centuries before that faith spread to England. This way they justified English rule over Ireland.
As far as they are concerned, Faith is a tool of control. And the correct Faith is necessary to mark loyal subjects. Today as back then. Unlike back then you can believe what you want but only in an approved church. They offered the Orthodox Christians in Ukraine a newly founded Orthodox Church, a Ukrainian State Chruch. The believers didn’t want it, and now must be forced to comply.
And our leaders don’t want us to notice the restrictions on our reliegious freedom. So they chose to not see anything.
“Why would the Western leadership speak up about the attacks? They have nothing to gain from doing so.”
What is Woke if not repackaged Marxism? Communism is the goal.
Larry, I find it amazing that you rail against all the lies and deceptions that are being used to promulgate the Ukraine war, but fully embrace the lies about WW2. I guess you fell for that being well inculcated from an early age.
Alex, are you saying Larry, the career intelligent analyst, has been brainwashed? What about you?
Alex, when you think you know the absolute truth about something, take it for granted, you most likely know nothing at all about the truth.
We can all be miss led. It takes effort and questioning what you were taught to unravel your upbringing and cultural biases. I am not attacking Larry. I like Larry and appreciate what he does. I’m just trying to nudge him away from the silly WW2 propaganda that we were all brought up in.
Let me tell you why the West is silent. The government of the west has been taken over by godless filthy thugs who hate God. They hate God because they stand convicted of their filthy pedophilia, homo’s, LGBTQ+ transvestite agenda. They will fail and fail big as God is going to punish not only this country, but all who stick their middle finger up at Him in defiance. Just go look at history and decide for yourself.
The middle finger raised against God usually gets snapped off by Him.
Another country is also persecuting Christians.
https://www.unz.com/estriker/persecuted-christians-in-israel-are-being-ethnically-cleansed-is-anybody-listening/
Larry, I wonder how long before articles/sites like yours are banned and people commenting/writing are rounded up for “hate speech”. IMHO we are headed there.
There is a lot of corruption in the Orthodox church as well. I cannot speak for the Russian church but in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, for example, priests are fat and rich and driving nice cars, they charge for everything, including to sing for someone’s funeral and if you don’t pay, no singing… Anyway, times have changed in that respect but yes, Orthodox churches seem to be more “old school” in the most important affairs/tenets of faith and that must be a thorn in the side of the progressive west and its churches that have been systematically turned into donation collection stations which compete with the rest of the economy for the piece of the pie.
404 church crimes – they are just a part of the whole divestiture from everything Russian.
The West has become demonic in the full sense of the word. The Russians don’t necessarily represent God’s will but the West definitely does Satan’s and has been representing it for quite a while now, at least since the first Gulf War.
Metropolitan Pavel is head if the Kiev Pechersk Lavra not the head if UOC, this is Metropolitan Onuphry
Why indeed are the leaders of the US and Europe silent about the persecution? I was born 2 years before you, Larry. My perception of our leaders’ attitudes toward Russia continues to evolve. Until 1991 I assumed they hated Russians because of communism. When the hatred continued following the breakup of the Soviet Union I thought they hated Russians because they are Russians. Now it appears they hate Russians because they are a Christian nation.
What part of “the gates of hell shall not prevail” do Western leaders not understand? History proves that making war against Russia is a fool’s errand. To take on both Russia and God’s adopted sons and daughters is to beg for destruction.
The process of destruction began long before the SMO. Look at the worship of “anus and marijuana” in western people. Perhaps God already has given the West over to our worst proclivities.
Ease is more corrosive to the faith than adversity. Leaders in the West persecute believers at places like Syria and Ukraine because Western Protestants and Roman Catholics do not recognize the Eastern Orthodox as siblings in Christ. We protest too little.
We should ask the Iraqi Christians how they feel about this. Oh, thats right they’re pretty much gone. They survived 1,600 years of Muslim domination but didn’t make it but a few years under American occupation.
The U.S. government is officially anti-Christian and anti-God. It isn’t accidental and they really aren’t afraid to admit it anymore.
I have noticed that part of the schism in the Republican Party is the return of the isolationists vs the neocons. From an isolationist standpoint, their influence in the Republican Party was broken because most conservatives could be rallied to defeat godless Marxism(with the help of British intelligence in 1938-41). Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the gradual return of orthodoxy, many conservatives sympathize with Russia and don’t believe the US should have involved themselves in Ukraine.
The neocons, aware of the schism, plan to defeat Trump, the perceived candidate of the neo isolationists, by tying godless communist China to Russia, thereby discrediting any sympathy to Russia. Their hope is either DeSantis or Haley coming out of the primary, and then it is win win for the neocons in the general election against Biden.
It remains to be seen whether this works. But i don’t think Mitch McConnell should ever be discounted. As much as I despise him, he may be the most successful senator since Henry Clay. I suspect he is behind the 2022 election defeat of Trump aligned candidates. They lost to some extent because of abortion, which is a losing argument for them. The country is 70% pro choice. Someone in the Republican Party injected that issue into the election year. I dont believe the Supreme Court reversed it on their own without some sort of nudging by MCConnell to destroy the Trump movement.
C’mon man, Ukraine epitomises EU values, freedom and democracy, human rights and all that, right?
Looking at the clips, seemed quite a few blokes in the crowds would be better help to their nation spending their time at the front rather than heckling priests and old ladies. Real tough guys eh?
Ukraine epitomizes the early to middling characteristics of a repressive fascist state. That was Bandera’s goal and now it’s America’s. Fascists are so much easier to rally to a cause and they make excellent enforcers.
Bolsheviks fit the same bill but I see no state-sponsored resurgence of Bolshevism in Russia, just Fascism in Ukraine.
Larry, the situation you describe is even more sinister than you might think. There are 2 Orthodox churches, one associated with the Moscow Patriarch (Kiril), and another of more recent vintage that seems (at least to me) to have clear fascistic overtones to it. The latter is favored by the Zelenskyy government and is occupying churches and other buildings actually owned by the first group I mentioned. (This is all quite confusing because both are Orthodox and use very similar titles containing the word “Orthodox.” It’s also important to point out that the church linked to the Moscow Patriarch actually denounced the Russian invasion in Feb of 2023; in no way can it be said to be ‘disloyal’.) Then there is the uniate Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, uniate meaning it recognizes the primacy of the Pope in Rome. (I’m Catholic myself, but I’ve been outraged to read some of the screeds emanating from bishops of this latter group; they’re little more than raw Zelenskyy propaganda often.) Of course, as you note, Americans know absolutely nothing about this aspect of the conflict, yet another fact that militates against their sticking their political noses and those of the Washington government into something they do not understand and have no wish to understand.
Does anyone know of readings or other media about the predominance and variety of religion in today’s Russia? i saw interviews with Putin several years back in which he talked about how the Orthodox church influenced him. It is very interesting to me, a Polish Catholic, who had family that had bad history with the Soviets.
The history of Ukrainians since 2014, is the proverbial farce of the history of the Germans after 1933.
And, of course, there was in both cases a “before” …
Yes. There is most definitely an anti-God (anti-Christian) subtext to the war in Ukraine.
As Solzhenitsyn predicted, Russia has discarded Jew Bolshevism while — during the same period — the U.S. has embraced it. (He understood the Carnal Jew Problem — which now plagues America — very well.)
As a Southerner, I recognize how wars commonly have deep moral and spiritual subtexts or drivers.
One of America’s greatest theologians, James Henley Thornwell, of South Carolina, identified an analogous subtext in the War of Northern Aggression (wrongly called “The Civil War”). Thornwell saw the deep and underlying truth about the war, and described it thus:
“The parties in the conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders. They are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, Jacobins on the one side, and friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battleground – Christianity and Atheism the combatants; and the progress of humanity at stake.”
Yankee globalist imperialism, not content with destroying true or ordered liberty in America, wishes to spread poisonous New-England -isms (feminism, transgenderism, egalitarianism) around the world.
As General Lee said after the war: “. . . the consolidation of the States into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin that has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”
The current proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is taxing the Yankee Empire heavily, and may well prove a bridge too far. The sanctions are backfiring and destroying American globalist hegemony.
General Lee’s prophesy is coming true. The South is being vindicated.
The Yankee Empire must fall, so true America — the America of Washington and Calhoun and Lee — may be — by God’s grace — restored and live on.
One last point. C.S. Lewis shrewdly observed how, on Judgment Day, there will be surprises. Good men and noble causes long vilified in corrupt and partisan history books (often written by military victors) will be vindicated, while those wrongly valorized in those tomes will be exposed in all their wickedness.
Great stuff Winston. Lee’s wisdom and astute analysis I’m familiar with. I’ll have to add Thornwell to the list of writings I’d like to look into.
I so look forward to the day when all truth will be revealed.
I believe that one of the unstated reasons ‘the West’ hates Russia is because the majority of the Western people are strongly conditioned to reject non-conformism to the theatre of lies and deceit.
And Russia is the antagonist to the illusion of the great and rightful West. The shit the haters bought and keep buying into and are afraid to acknowledge that they too were led astray. Fighting not their war but the war of the misleaders — the politicians and media selling and propagating endless hate and fear.
Hi Larry,
A welcome treatment of religious abuses in Ukraine. But I am one who grew up during the first cold war in the 1950s and 1960s where the propaganda stated that Stalin closed the churches. So I presume Christians like Putin must have kept his affiliation secret from the state in order to be a high echelon KGB official. To the rescue came Andrei Martyanov who said that the churches in Russia were not closed; it was all western propaganda.
Thanks for your words.
L. (the other Larry Johnson)
Don’t care what Martynov said. Certainly not all but many churches were closed by the Bolsheviks. One major Moscow church raised to the ground and the grounds made into a public swimming pool and since rebuilt. Church goers remained under heavy surveillance. To the Bolsheviks, the state was the religion and no one else need apply. Those are the facts.
I visited a small church in Moscow in ’93, stood by the entrance with sunglasses on and felt a distinct nervousness in the congregation. Inquired why so from another visitor and he explained……’they still have memories from the old days. You looked like KGB to them’.
The absurdity being that during the cold war, we condemned the USSR for repressing religion and now condemn Russia for not repressing religion, or at least sidelining it.
Truth of the matter is, by varying degrees and methods, all states seek to bend religion to their will and all religions seek to bend states to their will. It’s a natural phenomenon and no state or religion is exempt. Certainly not America’s glass house.
Putin had a religious epiphany after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In American Evangelical terms, he “got saved.” I know that most Christians in the West would reject this reading of his personal story, but it is true. Even some of the Baptists in Moscow I’ve talked to agree with this view.
Putin sees himself as the protector of the Orthodox, which has a long tradition in Russia. Rulers often took that view of themselves and their authority. In Putin’s mind it is definitively a religious war. Read some of his recent speeches, he makes it clear this is a battle between the faithful Orthodox worldview of the Russians, and the godless “progressive” worldview of the West.
Ever get the feeling you’re living in the wrong country (America)?
Facebook has just labeled Hersh’s North Stream articles as ‘false’, citing Ukrainian and Norwegian ‘fact checkers’ and even more…’stopfake.org’.
It can’t get more dystopian than this.
I was brought up in the same era, but then Americanized Christianity was prevalent. That all went away in the 70s. Eastern mysticism, philosophy, psychology etc took its place. After that “fad” went away, in came the science & intellectual /Tech Gods, which is where we are now.
Some believe this is some “Holy War”…
Especially with the Orthodox Church of late.
This isn’t about “faith”… it’s about “power”, you have an absolute totalitarian Nazi regime in power that isn’t going to allow even the slightest “wrong think” to exist in its fold. These people are paranoid beyond any rationality, looking for “spies & defectors” everywhere, who’s not 100% for us are enemies of the state (sound familiar?).
I fear, just like in our own nation, trying to label or rationalize or compartmentalize what really amount to raw hatred, raw power grab by violent means to subjugate masses is narrowing, watering down the extreme hateful mindsets.
This isn’t a “Holy War” at all.
And speaking of “communism”… it’s obvious “communism” was never a problem for the US, that was & is hogwash. China has been “Communist” for last 90 years. When Nixon made his 70s trip & China joined the WTO , for the last 50 years we’ve been trading with “Communist China”.. its only now… it’s the “evil communist” the CCP, the China Virus, blah blah blah.
US cares about only 2 things… Power/Money… a Saudi Arabia or Bahrain autocracy is fine, but a Russian one “bad” etc etc
No “Holy War” here, just straight up land and property theft & power consolidation.
Who in America is surprised there’s been no outcry from our illustrious “American Christian Values”?? Where are the “Pastors, Reverend’s” “Priests”?hey how about regular Freedom of Religion activists??
There’s no “Holy War”, just a bunch of “Dead” churches circling the drain.
Larry,
Thanks so much for bringing this to attention.
The West refusal to condemn these actions plus so many egregious crimes is in itself a commentary on those who occupy our country’s leadership.
They are filthy liars and the worst of humanity which now evidenced by their own alliance with this evil Ukrainian Nazis regime. This agreement between the West and Ukraine is again an admission of what we all know to be true.
Who are these people who think they can stand up to the truth(which is God Himself) using mere lies and untruths.
I consider all of men of faith in God kindred spirits, those who seek after God with their whole heart this includes of course our good brethren in Eastern Orthodox Church in every place.
If God has received someone who am I to reject them.
Thank you so much for this which I will use to make others aware. Most often hate will consume the hater before the hated. God bless you.
One morning I watched Fox and Friends as Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade interviewed actor Dean Cane on the documentary he just released on Armenian Christians in Syria. At one point Cane grew apologetic in his posture and tone of voice as he said, “If Armenian Christians live under government control, they are safe. If not under government control they are at risk.” Doocy and Kilmeade let that pass without a question, comment or change in their expressions.
This was about the same time the US Congress passed a resolution condemning the murder of Armenian Christians during World War I.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-armenia-idUSKBN1YG2DZ
Ukraine has not ceased to be orthodox and assessments of this type cannot be made during a war with hatred between contenders on the surface. As disgusting as some of the images that come from inside churches are.
https://web.telegram.org/k/stream/%7B%22dcId%22%3A5%2C%22location%22%3A%7B%22_%22%3A%22inputDocumentFileLocation%22%2C%22id%22%3A %226197141232599174262%22%2C%22access_hash%22%3A%22-3344051992027333960%22%2C%22file_reference%22%3A%5B2%2C103%2C133%2C230%2C219%2C0%2C0%2C162%2 C89 %2C72%2C86%2C54%2C138%2C212%2C193%2C23%2C214%2C138%2C73%2C75%2C95%2C50%2C247%2C1%2C61%2C157%5D%7D%2C%22size%22%3A5011430%2C%22mimeType %22%3A%22video%2Fmp4%22%7D
Some even burned. But in 2014 they also burned 48 Russophones at the Odessa Trade Union Headquarters. And the schism with the Russian Orthodox Church only happened in 2019! We should look at the period since the 2014 coup when Vitoria Nuland and the CIA empowered Bandera’s old neo-Nazi nationalist friends! With the real invasion of NATO that 80% of Ukrainians never wanted, contrary to what the US propaganda says!
Until 2014 most of Ukraine spoke Russian and there were no major social divides in a country that has always been an ethnic mosaic. The population did not like the oligarchs who stole from Ukraine as they steal from the US today! The first interim president to emerge from the 2014 coup, Turchynov is a Nazi thug, pure and hard! And it was Nazis like Turchynov, who authorized the first anti-terrorist operations in Donbass, with the help of the US who destroyed the unity of the people and the church and led the country to war as the US wanted to destabilize Russia and overthrow Putin. As Biden said!
https://t.me/AussieCossack/6692
Something is happening in the West, fascism is returning and support for fascist regimes like the one in Ukraine is on the rise. These are not the strawmen neo-nazi groups the Democrats talk about when trying to attack the far-right, this kind of fascism and it’s support emanate from the highest levels of governments and bureaucracies in Western capitals. Not sure where this is all heading to.
Something is happening in the West
Creeping totalitarianism masquerading as democracy.
Oregon has a vibrant community of Old Believers [Woodburn area]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz9jyZqy14U
as does Alaska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gysRlIdi1nM
There is a Russian Orthodox church in Southern Oregon…well attended.
I see some Catholics had their jimmies rustled. How many centuries would it take for you to understand that you were the baddies all along?
Many do not know interesting historical fact that it was Patriarch of Moscow who first before any soviet government official announced start of German invasion in 1941.
The day of the German invasion (June 22, 1941), Sergei issued a message asking all believers to rally to the defense of the nation. He subsequently encouraged large-scale offerings by Orthodox parishes for the war effort. In September 1943, Josef Stalin met with Sergei and two other metropolitans for the purpose of reestablishing the church’s national organization.
Also in Stalin in his first speech after invasion referred not only to citizens of russia but brothers and sisters, clearly pointing to faith.
Also reference in his speech to “verolomnoe napadenie” of Germans, has in russian and slavic languages double meaning and you can also translate this as “faith breaking” and not as treacherous.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sergei-patriarch
Born a Catholic. Teenage Baptist. Mormon during boot camp. (Got to go off base on Sunday). Baptist again. Church of the Big screen for a bit. And every dead body I held in either the military or police eroded a little more faith away. I did not see any spirit ascending. I saw blood, and shit, and urine and despair. And I have seen a lot of it. I have seen the shattered and raped bodies of children. The abused corpses of the elderly. But my personal experiences aside? Most of humanity needs the guidelines and the hope. Very few can actually contemplate the meaningless void that is reality. Without some illusion of hope, most couldn’t get thru the day.
And within that framework, Russia is the bulwark. Anti-drug. Building churches. As to whether child trafficking goes on? YOU cannot fucking government endorse it like the West is doing now.
So, a non-believer rising to the defense of the church. I’ve fought odder battles in my years.
Thank you for the defense Curt. For those of us that cling to God, it is appreciated. I’m not offended by your denigration of the belief in calling it an illusion. I appreciate how faith is destroyed in this world. I have empathy. I’m sorry for what you’ve been through. Regardless, I also believe that God appreciates the defense you make for his children (the Church). It is my hope that it won’t go unnoticed, in the final analysis.
The fall of an empire—the Lesson of Byzantium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CWG-2GLU4
A great deal of intelligent people share valid points of view on this forum.
The quickening of crisis events has caused many of us to concentrate on the Who did it and How they did it. Yet we have neglected the Why? they did it.
Why?, is the “Necessary” and “Useful” Truth (NUT.)
I hope we can concentrate on the Why or the NUT. Take for example 911. After 20 years we now know the Why or the (NUT). If we had known that then maybe we could have done something about giving up our freedoms.
I hope we can look more into the Why? Keeping us chasing after the Who and How for every new event, will take a psychological toll on us. However, if we give figuring out the Why or the NUT the same level of attention, we have a good chance at foiling their plans.
Remember the Assad gassing his people psyop? When the NUT was exposed as a pretext to bomb Syria, it was foiled.
I hope to see more Why analysis attempted.
The NUT at hand is, why are they trying to start a religious war in Europe, similar to those in the ME?
To understand what is actually unfolding in the Ukraine, one must become familiar with what happened at Fatima in Portugal in 1917. Over the course of several apparitions to 3 young peasant kids, Holy Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, called for the Pope and all his bishops to consecrate Russia to her Holy Heart. It has never properly happened. She also made very clear that failure to do so would produce the results in the world that we have witnessed ever since. In the Ukraine, the Russian Nation, the only Christian nation now left standing, will prevail. As the Holy mother stated in 1917, “In the end, My Immaculate Hear will Prevail”. The West, led by the United States and the UK, is kaput. Learn more about “The Miracle of the Sun”, October 13, 1917. May God Bless the Russian nation.
Correction: “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will Prevail”.
Thanks Larry
I know nothing of your views on metaphysics, but at a minimum you seem not to be possessed of an anaphylactic level aversion to Christianity and it’s practice and concepts. Good on you for that.
This is an important article because once we start to discuss things in these terms we begin to come to the root of issues.
Spiritual warfare is the beginning and end of all human action. We do well as a species to recognize this. If we remain unaware of this reality, central to all of our existences, we remain like the drunk that is unaware of his illness. There is no chance for improvement, societally or individually. This is why the enemy of humanity would prefer most of us remain oblivious to his machinations, even his existence.
The western world has lost proper awareness of the spiritual realm, the only realm that counts, in the end. Articles like this help to promote that awareness. Thank you.
One of Spirituality’s useful exercises is the constant reminder to be humble enough to realize that your good fortune is a blessing, a gift to be accepted by choice, otherwise, there is the danger of spirituality becoming an inflation. Everyone is on their path at different stages, not to be judged.
The Great Divide
Blog/Civil Unrest
Posted Apr 19, 2023 by Martin Armstrong
Any company that is adopting WOKE should be out of business for what they are really doing is dividing the country and completing what our computer has forecast – the breakup of the United States. The WOKE Agenda is attacking the religious beliefs of many and that historically always leads to division, discrimination, and often outright war.
When a company endorses what they think is some political agenda, it will lose the business from the opposition. This whole thing about transgender is out of control. Instead of eliminating discrimination, they are creating it. People will then blame the transgender movement for all sorts of things as they have done to Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants. There is no solution here. By endorsing WOKE, they are undermining the religious beliefs of others. You end up creating disunity – not unity.
Companies should NEVER take sides in politics especially when they attack religious beliefs. It is one thing to lobby for your business against some regulation. But endorsing this WOKE agenda is part of the Great Divide that is clearly a major factor contributing to the demise of the United States by dividing the people between blue and red. Abortion already offends many religious beliefs. Then there is taxation and war. This WOKE Agenda will be one of the factors historians will look back on for breaking up the United States.
During the Hard Times that followed the Panic of 1837, there was discrimination against the Irish Catholics for taking jobs when they migrated to the States. That led to even gun battles on the street. Just as Germany singled out the Jews, any time you single out any group, you divide your society, undermining the state’s foundation.
We are all equal or we are not. When we are, great civilizations are formed. When Philadelphia was founded by William Penn, a Quaker, it was on the principle of religious freedom. The first Catholic Church was erected there along with the first churches of just about every denomination. The whole slavery issue and the Civil War also involved religion.
This WOKE Agenda is extremely dangerous because it attacks the religious beliefs of many. Besides the American Civil War with its roots in religion, the same was true of the English Civil War which was Protestant v Catholic. India & Pakistan separated over religion – Buddhist v Islam. The Protestant Revolution was actually funded by Catholic bankers who wanted to compete with the Jews but could not get into the trade since lending money for interest was the Sin of Usury.
Arnaud Amalric (died 1225) was a very prominent abbot in the Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229), also known as the Cathar Crusade. They were persecuted because they believed in two Gods or philosophies, with the first one being good and the second being evil. It was during this religious war, which was covertly really for French political gain, that the monk Amalric is best remembered for allegedly advising a soldier who was worried about killing orthodox Catholics in the process of killing declared Cathar heretics. He said:
“Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.” (“Kill them. For the Lord knows those that are His own.”)
The historical list goes on and on. The number of wars and civil uprisings that offended religious beliefs are countless. This WOKE Agenda is NOT about discrimination, it is an agenda that undermines the state and will lead to the breakup of the United States precisely as our computer has forecast.
This WOKE Agenda has prompted more than just a boycott of BUD. It has produced Woke Free American Beer. I’m not a beer drinker, I prefer Scotch. So I cannot speak to how it compares to Bud. But you can try it yourself to make that decision at Ultrarightbeer.com.
This is what I mean. This is not really an economic right-wing thing, it has its roots in religious beliefs. A friend from Europe came and we went down to Key West which is a major hangout for the Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender crowd (LGBT/LGBQT). We saw a guy who could have been a linebacker in high heels with a black mini-skirt standing on the corner and people were taking pictures with him. He was obviously making serious cash. He was certainly not very feminine looking and with the heels, he stood over 7ft. Nobody was insulting him, they were lining up to have their photo taken with him.
This Woke Free American Beer commercial starts with Seth Weathers standing outside of a women’s bathroom and saying, “America has been drinking beer from a company that doesn’t even know which restroom to use.”
Welcome to the Great Divide
The time is quickly approaching when we will turn out the light on this
American Experiment
2034?
Growing up I understood Communism to be atheist and materialist, but lately I’ve been following discussions about its underlying spirituality. Marx rejected God, but he believed Man will attain spiritual uplift–utopia/nirvana/godhood, the World Spirit–when humanity is united under communism. Thus one of Communism’s missions, like other religions, is to spread itself.
Our Western elitists also reject God and put themselves at the center of the world. Beyond mere narcissism, there appears to be a spiritual (some say Satanic) component to their belief. Like Communism, they seek to spread their philosophy everywhere; unlike Communism, the mass of humanity won’t share in their spiritual enlightenment except to the extent we receive the “blessing” of their paternalistic guidance.
(Whole lotta good comments today, btw.)
The conflict is not religious per se as the West has abandoned nearly all Christian intellectual and moral traditions. It is not one doctrine over another. No, the divide is between a society that is disintegrating as opposed to societies which hold strong to their beliefs and traditions. It is Chaos vs. Order. It is Chicago versus Moscow vs
China which still operates under a Confucian social order.
Larry asked: “The question I have is why the political leaders in America and Europe are staying silent in the face of this widespread persecution?”
The answer is simple. The political leaders in America and Europe hate God.
That said, any religious leaders (East or West) that love to dress up in flowing religious robes and refer to themselves by self-exalting religious titles operate by the pride of man.
As Jesus said:
“Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.” – Jesus in Mark 12:38-40 (NKJV)
As Jesus also expressly prohibited the use of the word “father” for religious titles (not for simple geneology)… because it exalts the self, and human “selves” are sinful, whereas the real Father is not. And yet, what do the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches do ? They blatangly ignore Jesus and exalt themselves in this manner.
“But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.” – Jesus in Matthew 23:8-10 (NKJV)
I know we are all trained to believe these folks are religious, and yes, what they do right is right, so they might be truly decent in many ways. But what they do wrong is wrong, and that includes refusing to listen to simple, explicit commands given by the Master Himself (much like Adam and Eve did when God gave them an explicit command not to touch the Tree).
So what happens if we know and don’t do ?
“And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.” – Jesus in Luke 12:47-48 (NKJV)
True religion is humble. Jesus Himself didn’t wear a fancy hat or have flowing robes with the pretense of being a religious leader. Nor did Jesus live like a king in a palace like the Roman Catholic “pope” (not that someone who calls himself a “Patriarch” as a religious title is much better). Nor did Jesus push icons (i.e. idols) on people.
So until such time as these folks actually listen to and obey what Jesus tells them, they too need to keep growing forward on the Narrow Path, and stop misleading others in the things they still do wrong.
And yes, I know that some folks will attack this. Yet God is my Witness. Who is their’s, other than men ? To them, Jesus says:
“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
– Jesus in Matthew 15:7-9 (NKJV)
Thanks, Larry, as always, for providing thought-provoking discussion !
Geez, the conversation today got off the rails pretty dramatically. Honest, you theist folks can really get hot under the collar and talk some real bull.
Forget about religion and all that. You see, that’s why I always say that you need less bible and more Marx (or at least some Marx).
This war is like every other war. Russia is sitting on huge reserves of much needed natural resources. The monopolist capitalist western elites are convinced they stand a good chance of nicking them. End of.
Same with the medieval crusades, they were fought ultimately so one set of people could control the land of another set of people. The religion side is there to obscure the ultimate motivation (raw greed, power, etc) and get brainwashed folk to do the fighting.
Putin, regardless of his own private piety and the rightness of the Russian cause which I don’t doubt, has the everlasting problem of every world leader, how to sell his war. The religion angle is one more tool to keep a nation of millions focused on the task.
Now…if you went asking every Russian on their personal position on the Father, the Son, etc, and checked on their church going record, I imagine a few of the people commenting here would be shocked.
Russia is Europe at the end of the day, god is a bit of a relic around here. It’s only making a comeback in politics because the mainstream is getting doolaly. Popular with older women maybe.
Supongo que hablas de las películas de Groucho Marx
Nazism was primarily an imperialism with a racialist cast. Pagan beliefs were pushed as part of tearing the population away from the Protestant and Catholic churches and orienting them to a leadership cult grounded in principles that had nothing to do with religious morality. Paganism was an element in the centralization of power and authority, and the gods of the major religions were in the way.
In the Ukraine conflict, religion is also a secondary concern, regardless of how many videos you can find of attacks on the Russian Orthodox church. It is feared by Ukrainian Nazis because it represents a fifth column. In order to enhance their revanchist nationalism they try to infuse it with religious thematics. It is not my impression that Ukrainian Nazis are embarked on the same kind of “totalitarian” project as the Germans were, in the sense that they don’t believe they must eliminate religious institutions to centralize authority. If you can find texts in which they express these sentiments, please let us know.
Overemphasis on religious drivers to the conflict slides right into overemphasizing sexuality and family structure issues. Sure, they are important to people, but they are hardly what this mess is about.
There are nazis deeply involved, Ukrainian nazis born bred for one thing. And the hand of the surviving Third Riech Nazi’s are all over the core of this darkness, the ones who kept the flame of nazism alive and carefully infiltrating the west at every level.
The intellegence organs of the elitist west bred the ukronazis in its guts, from this they built the new Ukraine Army, early the Israelis set up extensive training camps to train selected Ukrainians terror and reprisal asymetric warfare, after the Maiden, and organized essentially a terror and reprisal/cleansing regiment factory. Seems the Brits and others within the globalist intell fraternity involved in such actions where/are involved.
It is not difficult to take a critical overview of the globalist/neo-con -Deep State and see the pattern in detail of what they created with Ukraine beginning even before the collapse of the central Soviet.
And that pattern points directly at the systematic disassembly and destruction of everything Russian in order to get at the land and resources within Russian sovereign territory. While committing mass liquidation, genocide of the native folks living in Russia.
Russia has no alternatives. They exhausted all avenues of peaceful redress, multiple times. They where gulled and betrayed at every step, from the beginning.
Sure sounds exactly like being a red blooded White Christian Man and natural born patriotic American.
There are no peaceful abenues of redress or recourse in America between we the people and whatever that thing wearing the skin suit of a Constitutional Republic is. Which as events unfold, appears to have not even waited for the ink to dry on the parchment to turn my country into the very exact thing my forebears fought and won the only successful slave revolt against this tyranny.
And for me via that pattern in detal overview of the Russian Special Operation, far as i see it, them guys are fighting the same enemy that sure looks like it wants to do to us goid folls here as they do to the goid folks over there in the Donbas Arc and Russia too. It is the same enemy.
Its aims here or in Russia or china or any place anyone dares to defy or resist it, are the same difference. And it is Russia who is at least fighting the active nazi branch of its vast scores of minions under its thumb doing its dirty bloody deeds. Inhuman deeds. A baby eating baby blood drinking inhuman satanic cult of semi reptilians who believe themselves masters of the world.
Imagine earth without them! Imagine the wealth and prosperity and happiness. That is almost incomprehensible but it is true. And it could be. Not for nothing something big has hapoened, i can not put it into words so far but something truly epic has changed, it is almost as if a new and peaceful power has usurped these globalist overlords and their institutional order is failing, somehow this is begun, the illusion of legitimacy that skin suit of authority once holding sway over us is gone and in its place is what was under that skin suit, it is ugly and depraved, greedy little SOB’s, rancid hate and loathing for us dirt people, and the slavery we lived under is destroyed its just gone, what remains is the residues, the enertia of something that is ancient and vast as it infested the whole planet, its monetary system is running on the bast slug of wealth it once carried and that slig of filthy lucre is coming out the conduits of trafficking in everything illicit, pretty soon no more money comes out, they know it, they are scrambling for a way to return to whatever system it was that strip mined us all of our wealth, milked us like cattle, soon, it is completely no more.
This attempt to provision the Ukraine army and prop up its regime, there is something very wrong with things, and it involves what is not coming to supply the ukronazi army, because like the skin suit of a republic our once overlords wore, so too the US military, more so the rest of NATO, there is nothing there but window displays, a carefully constructed but really empty US and NATO physical military, like arms minitions and weapons systems. There is nothing there there. The trillions supposedly went into yearly budgets was laundered into the system thats milked us dirt people. That is across the west this enemy controls. Or controlled. Something incredible, something that existed for thousands of years and once ruled everything is gone. I can just sense it. I can not explain it. Call me crazy. I just know it happened, like the matrix of the world is gone and something wonderful replaced it. Stiil some bad things remain but they are basically kaput. Soon all gone. Good bye dont need you. Adious. Something like nobody ever seen something truly good has happened to our world.
Change my mind…
If David Booth’s missive from monday is correct Moscow has elevated the SMO to a Holy War………
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index4239.htm
Without God you have nothing IMO. Aimless directionless and totally susceptible to group think and media indoctrination. As far as Muslims – even in Austro Hungarian empire they were most loyal and deadly soldiers. Give them space to practice is all they ask – and you got a stone cold killer. like Chechens for Russia.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2 Timothy 3:1-4
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2 Timothy 3:1-4
10 years ago, I thought Alex Jones had lost the plot with his talk of Satanic cults at the top of the world’s power pyramid. I don’t think so now.
Not long ago, statues and depictions of Baphomet / Baal were something one saw only in museums and academic textbooks. Now they’re common and even promoted. Soon, they’ll take their place in popular culture alongside the promotion of LGBT+++ lifestyles and world views. From the Goth subculture of the ’80s, to a 9′ statue of Baphomet erected (albeit temporarily) in front of the Arkansas Legislature, there is no mistaking the social reality that Western societies are being introduced to something the West had held as abhorrent for centuries.
Their introduction and dissemination through the West’s social space, I’d wager, is not simply a matter of organically arising from the West’s consumer culture decadence. It looks much more like somebody saw their hour had come round at last and are making well calculated moves to regain the socio-political control once enjoyed by the Church.
What’s happening in Ukraine is a trial run on the margins – on the hairy edge where “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law*”. Russia’s resurgent Christianity isn’t just a (successful) attempt to roll back the clock in a search for Russian roots. Mated to unrivalled military power and natural wealth, it has come to represent a singularly lethal threat to their global aspirations as nations around the world are starting to recognize what’s at stake.
*Aleister Crowley
PS: Wagner’s “recruitment” video touches on this theme briefly.
https://rumble.com/v27nsko-this-is-trolling-on-another-level.-video-from-wagner-pmc-for-recruitment-of.html
Finalmente estamos llegando al meollo del asunto, donde la SMO es el corolario, después de mil años, aproximadamente.
Me parece que hay muchas imprecisiones en los comentarios, como tratar de decir que los protestantes son diferentes de los romanos, cuando sólo son dos caras de la misma moneda (según varios, el protestantismo se creó para justificar la usura, fuertemente prohibida en la Biblia, ante el avance inexorable de los “venecianos”); o, creer que algo no calza porque tal o cuál no era necesariamente religioso cuando, en realidad, está inmerso en esa cultura…
De todos modos, es estimulante que más personas investiguen la verdadera Historia para que todo salga a la luz, y descubramos el engaño del “padre de la mentira”.
This is not quite the entire story, Larry. There are really two rival branches of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. One branch is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, another branch is an independent branch that was created. This is the one that has legitimacy within the Orthodox world. My understanding is at the independent Ukrainian Church has some serious problems with its legitimacy vis-a-vis the way it is followed church doctrine. (The Ukrainian church is “uncanonical” in terms of the things that has to do to be considered legitimate in the eyes of Orthodoxy.)
Many ukrainians wanted their own church, not one that answered to russia. However, they went about it in a pretty slip shod way, which is a major reason why this body has not been recognized by the other orthodox churches.
Also, there is not too much that separates the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox churches in terms of doctrine. It is mostly about politics, rituals and who controls whom. In fact, I recently heard a Serbian priest give a lecture and he said that the only reason we (meeting Orthodox) don’t call ourselves Catholics is because Roman Catholics were already using that word. (“Catholic” comes from a Greek word meaning universal.)
Christians sneered at the “Sunni-Shia divide” when it is their own Great Schism that threatens to blow up the entire planet. While the Christians are fighting each other, the Muslims are on the mend. If you believe this to be coincidence, I have a bridge to sell. I for one have long suspected who’s the chief trouble maker.
In large part this is true. The West wants to control everybody and the Eastern Orthodox churches have been always been an impediment toward total control. And it’s also a one-way street. Hundreds of thousands of Orthodox have been killed by Catholics in their attempt to regain control. (The Croatian Ustache and the Banderites are two examples.)
On the other hand, Orthodox don’t really want to control the Roman Catholics. Otherwise, the two churches are virtually the same thing.
i totally disagree this time about catholic church, falsely depicted as a LGBTQXYZ organization. historically, the catholic church was way more independent than other churches: protestant ones flirts with secular institutions from the times of martin luther, the ortodox church is totalyy dependant by national institutions. so we have the ortodox ukraine church of ukraine that is involved in the war, a thing now impossible with catholic church. and the islam? the islam is alway been tied to the ermeneuthic of the qunmran, and every ermeneuthic, every interpretation, may be connected with a state power, cause there were no religious instituion above the states. the religion more independent from national policies is the catholic one, and if italy were protestant we’re surely more involved. this pope does what catholic churches managed to do in his existence, that was much longer than anyother western istitution, and is to assimilate secular tendencies to make them compatible with a religious perspective. and that’s much more clever than joining in wars where men were taught to kill other men, as do other religion that profess themselves traditional and then <are involved in a war, that's the less traditional of things, cause after every war the societies change
Dear Larry.
I just want to clarify one point. The Catholic Church has never changed its doctrine based on scriptures and tradition on homosexuality and other abominable sins (see Leviticus 20,13) its derogatory and tendentious opinion against the Catholic Church is very offensive to traditional Catholics who live according to our Master Jesus Christ.
Now, for more than a century, Freemasonry has sought by all means to infiltrate the Church with today’s virus through which the Bible is a book written by pastors and that must be permanently updated. This diabolical virus is called modernism and they have gained almost all power within the Church by perverting it, viciously persecuting the few traditional Catholics with diabolical hatred. Today the only Bibles that we can buy with fidelity in the translation are those from before 1998 and if you get them from before 1960 even better. Dear Don Larry, do not put true Catholics in the bag of depraved. We are in a civil war, just see that the Pope is not wanted by his sheep, see that no sheep go to him.
Que Nuestra Señora la Virgen, Nuestra Madre te ampare (Juan 19,26) y que el brazo Todopoderoso de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo guíe tus pasos.
i noticed that there were the preceding pope, those of the famous warmongering speech of ratisbona, that were chase by the church. either for his defense of paedophily, and cause ha was destroying the church sending it to bankruptcy. if it wasn’t for francis there woundn’t be no catholicism anymore, cause it’s so stupid to restore the mess in latin without noticing that nobody speaks latin anymore
…why the political leaders in America and Europe are staying silent in the face of this widespread persecution? — Larry Johnson
Because the political leaders in America and Europe are paying for this widespread persecution.
A good article on the religious nature of the war (primarily it is about the West’s lack of religion and Russia’s historical embrace of Orthodoxy).
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/6100-the-conflict-between-the-west-and-russia-is-a-religious-one
There are a number of Roman Catholic “vs” Orthodox comments in this string that I won’t address other than to say this: the differences between them over the centuries from the Schism onward are full of subtle and not-so-subtle issues often exasperated by people, political and/or religious, that both create(d) and encourage(d) conflict for the sake of numerous worldly agendas. Simple answers and reasons are often difficult to pin down when honestly dealing with historical issues.
One other thing worth noting. It was mentioned above that Hitler and many Nazis were Roman Catholic but this is a distortion of the truth. They were baptized and “on the role” of the RC Church but they did not embrace its teachings. The Nazis were essentially a pagan group whose god revolved around the gathering and wielding of material power. They despised and openly disavowed the teachings of Christianity in general–and especially its pacifistic qualities.
I write these things as an Orthodox Christian.
My goodness, so many religious experts who have absolutely no idea of what they are writing. Not having even the basics, yet judging based on heir own established facts.
When you have no concept of God, not even a theoretical knowledge from the bible, have not educated yourself one bit about the nature of God, of Who He is, why Holy Trinity is a thing and who denies any denies the whole – if you deny God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, then that is the work of the spirit of the antichrist.
Those who want to have unlimited power cant tolerate loyalty to God, to his Law and Order. And to Love tht comes from Him, if you open up and pray. If you deny God, then dont expect anything, because youre too smart for your own good.
Those who never searched for God, in Father Son, Holy Spirit, never got to experience of being freed from their sin, never felt the loving embrace of God via the Holy Spirit, what can you tell ? You cant say anything. Because God are three persons, Father, Son, Holy Spirit and God is alive. If you are in a group that worships God, but says that it is not Trinity, then you are dealing with that evil spirit and its fruits should make you see that it is fake and NOT of God. Those groups tend to resemble the rule of terror, subversion and enslavement that US system of today clearly represents.
As for orthodox church during revolution, thousands of priests were tortured and wiped out except for those who recognized the new regime and essentially submitted to the new rules, while Church, or how they say, canonical one follows Godly rules instead of the rules of those in secular power. The state is not the ultimate power, but God. Antichrists were always about both the priesthood and earthly power into one, while denying God, perhaps not always in form, but in practice.
As far as I know, I do not remember the catholic church being terribly mortified or anything by either the bolshevik revolution and the treatment that many received. But if you look at Syria, where Vatican was asked to do something by Bashar like 10 years ago, there was pretty much silence. Like the godless west had a blank check to do anything, while to defend oneself was as if a crime. If they are afraid for money, well, it would seem they arent very spiritual, but political instead.
This drafted ‘Nam VFW sez: been my observation for quite some time that “what the USA once was, Russia is becoming – independent, prosperous, debt-free and Christian”. Go Vlad and & Co!
The best fit solution to the argument between whether corrupt people seek power, or power corrupts even the basically good is that both sides are right, and it seems to be endemic.
As unacceptable as they are, bribery and graft are qualitatively different than some of what one finds when one scratches the well groomed surface of the ruling classes. A fetid goo of Freudian complexes oozes out. From the Franklin scandal in DC, to the Savile & Dutroux scandals in Europe, to Pizzagate and Jeffrey Epstein’s “black book”, to a host of individual scandals it’s all but impossible to avoid the conclusion that the West’s ruling elite are composed of sexual deviants. In some cases, criminally and even ritualistically so.
Some of these peoples’ track to power was enhanced by their deviancy, some are allowed to stay in their positions because they succumbed to the amorality of the swamp’s subculture. This isn’t new and it isn’t limited to the politicos and their hangers on. Listen to Kay Griggs’ story of her husband Col. George Griggs, USMC:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mWljaM9Tl9hY/
Why would one wonder why LGBT++, even paedophilia lifestyles are being normalized? Why would one wonder why the non-West world is recoiling, along with a plurality of the West’s peoples? The ruling class is not like the rest of us. “Do what thou wilt” is not the whole of the law that the world wants to live by. The rest of the world knows that that way lies dissolution and madness.
Lord Acton missed the mark. It doesn’t take absolute power to corrupt absolutely. As we see, it takes a lot less.
Y que se puede decir de este tema del dia sobre la tecnologia de USA.
El starship fue un desastroso fracaso por falta de tecnologia o un desinteres increible sobre el apego a la ciencia.
60 años de carrera espacial y deciden iniciar d enuevo tirando todo por la borda.
A pesar de tener la patente de los RD 180, no pueden replicarlos.
At the Council of Florence in the 1460’s the Orthodox Church did in fact agree to the Filioque (creativity also proceeds from the Son), after studying Plethon’s Greek archives first seen then in Florence.
On returning to Kiev the Czar had a fit and imprisoned the monks. What would that mean for my slaves if each thought individually and got uppity, he feared.
Therein lies a story indeed. We have come a long way since the Council.
“capax Dei”, “Imago viva Dei” follow from Filio-que.
Leaving politics and history aside, as Christians it is our duty to support our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted by the Nazi regime in Ukraine.
Hopefully, President Putin can rid this land of this ideology and bring unity to the Slavic nation!
God bless us all!
Larry. They are going after real Catholic, not Novus Ordo, churches in US. https://www.bitchute.com/video/zGQilKiaOiCn/
Why the West does not report on religious persecution? Because the West is ruled by a Luciferian paedophile cult of depravity and perversion.