Orthodox Church unholy alliance with Putin

[Die Neue Zeit]

Warning: right-wing website [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/23/wrussia123.xml ]

There was one part in the article that struck me as being both comical and disturbing:


Yet most Russians say they follow Orthodoxy for national rather than moral reasons. Deeply patriotic and with a declared intention of making Russia great again, the Church has milked the sentiment.

Priests are regularly seen on television sprinkling holy water on bombers and even nuclear missiles, a blessing that reinforces Mr Putin's own militaristic philosophy.

The Church has even supported Mr Putin's repression of democracy, with a senior bishop last year comparing human rights activists to traitors.

[Bandito]

Of course.
Russian and serbian orthodoxy are the same.
Here is the photo of serbian orthodox priest,an important one-vladika(something like bishop in english church) posing with a rifle during the bosnian war.
http://http://www.bojanbb.com/blogsr/media/filaret.jpg

[Cheung Mo]

The reality presented by the Bible is completely different than the reality of existence. The reality presented by the Russian Orthodox Church is completely different from both.

[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ At least you don't fall into that silly trap of equating the "reality" presented by the Hebrew and mainstream Bibles with the "reality" presented by organized religion. :)

If only Stalin were canonized (http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2003/11/11/report02.shtml)... :laugh:

[Bandito]

in eastern europe,religion comes with nationalism.
Simple as that.