Vladimir Putin's Christian Faith - in his own words

[Augustine]

Well maybe Putin can sue the court for slander

What’s the point of suing a kangaroo court? :knight2:

 

[jschwartz]

Shouldn’t this be on another board? Putin is not Catholic, and he has an abysmal track record on religious liberty, including a string of attacks on the freedom of Russian Rite and Roman Catholics.

If you understand the nature of church-state relations going back to Byzantium, you’ll see how this is nothing new. In the East, the Orthodox churches and the State are one and indivisible. Even Stalin had a ministry of religion. The church is a source of nationalist pride and state cohesion primarily in Russia, nothing more.

 

[SyroMalankara]

What’s the point of suing a kangaroo court? :knight2:

So the US and UK, along with Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe are not to be trusted, however, despite circumstantial and even some direct evidence against Putin, he is more trustworthy because he uses the right religious lingo? Didn’t we learn anything from our infamous American pastor-politician politico-religious endeavors? Are we that naive?

 

[Cavaradossi]

So Putin is trying to do what in regard to getting rid of his opposition, intervening in Ukraine, pushing for a pan-Slavic union rather than one with the EU, etc? Create a GreatRussian plutocracy?

No doubt the US will do whatever is in US interests, is Putin above that? Is what he does really in Russian interests, or personal interests? Do his interests agree with US interests or go against it? Which rule would you prefer?

I really don’t see how expanding NATO or the EU to Russia’s doorstep is in the best interests of the U.S., so I don’t see Russia attempting (and often failing) to protect its old sphere of influence from encroachment as attempts to destabilize the U.S. To me, it appears to be the other way around, insofar as the expansion of the U.S. into Russia’s former sphere of influence via NGO’s and color revolutions is intended to destabilize Eastern Europe.

 

[SyroMalankara]

I really don’t see how expanding NATO or the EU to Russia’s doorstep is in the best interests of the U.S.,

Oil, minerals, trade, free movement of persons, freedom of press and democracy?

so I don’t see Russia attempting (and often failing) to protect its old sphere of influence from encroachment as attempts to destabilize the U.S.

So Russia is trying to build back the sphere it lost by nations that are today independent?

To me, it appears to be the other way around, insofar as the expansion of the U.S. into Russia’s former sphere of influence via NGO’s and color revolutions is intended to destabilize Eastern Europe.

For what reason?

 

[Augustine]

So the US and UK, along with Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe are not to be trusted, however, despite circumstantial and even some direct evidence against Putin, he is more trustworthy because he uses the right religious lingo? Didn’t we learn anything from our infamous American pastor-politician politico-religious endeavors? Are we that naive?

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Are we?

Pax Christi