Good post, except Putin did not hijack Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian orthodox church was, during the Bolshevik era, an arm of the government and it's priests and Metrolpolitan (Russian Pope) were members of the KGB. Stupid believer went to confession and it ended up in a dossier, and the idiot in a gulag.
Good post, except Putin did not hijack Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian orthodox church was, during the Bolshevik era, an arm of the government and it's priests and Metrolpolitan (Russian Pope) were members of the KGB. Stupid believer went to confession and it ended up in a dossier, and the idiot in a gulag.
Nothing has changed since Putin, except renaming the KGB to FSB .The head of the Russian church, Metropolitan Kiril is the head of the KGB, branch known as the Russian Orthodox Church.
I wonder how many "average Joes" really "got" the full dramatic significance of that photo of Biden in the cathedral with the two (Ukrainian!) Orthodox priests in the foreground? The Ukrainian Church is demonized as heretic in the Russian media, I think Putin has used the word "Satanic:" a significant justification for the invasion, in Russia. I recently innocently got on the "wrong" side of the issue at a family birthday party which had multiple American Orthodox Church members. I got quite a (condescending, not aggressive, thank goodness!) lecture which it turned out was straight out of Putin's (metaphorical) mouth thanks to the guy's Russian-speaking wife, who listens to Russian news! But he himself had visited Russia (several times) and was particularly poetical about the packed churches and women in headscarves; i.e. this Church schism is important to them!
Thanks. Your comment about babushkas (women in head scarves) brings up one of the reasons for the support of Russia by the right is in the nationalistic, patriarchal, homophobic, misogyny of the Russian orthodox church. That's why Tucker Carlson, et al are in love with Putin and Orban, and oh yes there is the racism.
In case one asks how can Russia be racist, they have such a small population of Africans
Good post, except Putin did not hijack Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian orthodox church was, during the Bolshevik era, an arm of the government and it's priests and Metrolpolitan (Russian Pope) were members of the KGB. Stupid believer went to confession and it ended up in a dossier, and the idiot in a gulag.
Nothing has changed since Putin, except renaming the KGB to FSB .The head of the Russian church, Metropolitan Kiril is the head of the KGB, branch known as the Russian Orthodox Church.
I wonder how many "average Joes" really "got" the full dramatic significance of that photo of Biden in the cathedral with the two (Ukrainian!) Orthodox priests in the foreground? The Ukrainian Church is demonized as heretic in the Russian media, I think Putin has used the word "Satanic:" a significant justification for the invasion, in Russia. I recently innocently got on the "wrong" side of the issue at a family birthday party which had multiple American Orthodox Church members. I got quite a (condescending, not aggressive, thank goodness!) lecture which it turned out was straight out of Putin's (metaphorical) mouth thanks to the guy's Russian-speaking wife, who listens to Russian news! But he himself had visited Russia (several times) and was particularly poetical about the packed churches and women in headscarves; i.e. this Church schism is important to them!
Thanks. Your comment about babushkas (women in head scarves) brings up one of the reasons for the support of Russia by the right is in the nationalistic, patriarchal, homophobic, misogyny of the Russian orthodox church. That's why Tucker Carlson, et al are in love with Putin and Orban, and oh yes there is the racism.
In case one asks how can Russia be racist, they have such a small population of Africans
Consider this, paradoxically some of the most racist states have the smallest percentage and numbers of blacks, like Vermont, which paradoxically has re elected Bernie Sanders https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-racist-states
The most racist places in America according to Google https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/28/the-most-racist-places-in-america-according-to-google/