“5 Reasons Christians Love Putin!!!”

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  1. HeavenlyHosts

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    I will listen today. I wish I could cite a source, but I remember reading that there is Chinese military in Canada now. Maybe I can find it.
     
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    I read that too. They train in Canada's winters here. Not sure source.
    Regarding Fr. Blount's words, Maria Esperanza said the same thing about US's future.
     
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    There are parts of China that have winters, too. So why would they be in Canada? Trudeau asked them, I think, around 2019 or 2020. And this video doesn't look like winter to me.
     
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    Alois Irlmaier predicted that China would invade Alaska and Canada at the same time but "wouldn't get very far".
     
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    Agree.
     
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    :eek:
     
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    Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
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    Russian soldiers line up to kiss an “icon” of Putin, while a Russian Orthodox priest of the Moscow Patriarchate blesses them. (Image: Social media)


    2016/08/19 - 22:17 • INTERNATIONAL, MORE

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    It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested that it is reasonable and just to kill the domestic opponents of the Russian state as he did earlier this week in an interview on Ekho Moskvy.


    But that would be a major mistake, according to Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Russian scholar at the University of Bremen, whose volume, “The Russian Orthodox Church: Its Present-Day Situation and Current Problems,” is widely considered to be a fundamental study of post-Soviet Orthodoxy in Russia.


    In an interview he gave to Radio Liberty’s Valentin Baryshnikov, Mitrokhin said that “the rank and file clergy and most of the episcopate are very militantly inclined and [like Chaplin] do not exclude the use of force.” Indeed, he says, “in church practice, force is the norm” with bishops “beating” priests, something almost all accept.

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    Kirill, the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, with Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin (Image: 3rm.info)

    “The church now is also the leading social institution which speaks against so-called juvenile justice” and defends the rights of parents to use force against their children. Moreover, it “supports militaristic rhetoric,” organizes “numerous military-patriotic circles,” and otherwise backs the use of force by the strong against the weak, the Germany-based Russian scholar says.

    Indeed, he continues, “if you were to speak with a rank-and-file priest, he of course would express himself exactly as Chaplin did or even worse.”


    Unlike the liberal intelligentsia which promotes one or another “variant of Western Christianity and of ‘post-Holocaust’ thought,” leaders and followers of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate view their faith as “a national religion which gives them spiritual power to ‘oppose the godless West’ and so on.”

    After losing his position in the patriarchate a year ago, Mitrokhin says, Chaplin “began consciously to excite the public” by presenting what “the conservative half of his brain” thinks – perhaps largely because that is exactly what “any average Russian priest” thinks and what many bishops do as well.

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    Joseph Stalin icon was used to bless Putin’s strategic bombers at Engels Air Base in Russia. June 2015 (Image: dsnews.ua)

    “The overwhelming majority” of the clergy support Russian nationalism and militarism, and their voices drown out those who say that “God is love.” Some have little problem with doing that because they have never been taught otherwise. Perhaps at best “only a few hundred” of the Russian Orthodox Church’s priesthood do.


    “In the Russian Orthodox Church,” Mitrokhin says, “as is well known, Christ does not exist.” There is an Orthodox tradition based on Christ, one that was “formed by the Russian intelligentsia at the beginning of the 20th century.” But that tradition, one that was most promising, has largely been suppressed.

    Many find it hard to believe that Orthodox priests who share the robes of those who were killed by the Soviet state and are now celebrated as the new martyrs can support the use of force. Chaplin’s words in fact justify exactly what Stalin and other Soviet leaders did to the church and its leadership in Soviet times.

    But very few Orthodox priests, Mitrokhin points out, had any connections with the new martyrs, and with each passing year, their number has declined. “The larger part of the church are former Soviet people who up to 1991 completely believed in some socialist ideas, had [Communist] party ID cards, were in [Soviet] political organizations and never thought about [the new martyrs].”

    At the end of the 1980s, many talked about the new martyrs. Now, they only do so to raise money to paint a church. But very few want to talk about why their martyrdom happened. Instead, far too many and not just Chaplin “consider that it is possible to kill [opponents] but one must choose the correct group for murder.”


    That and not the love of God, Mitrokhin insists, is “the present-day ideology of the Russian Orthodox Church.”

    https://euromaidanpress.com/2016/08...sions-militaristic-rhetoric-euromaidan-press/
     
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    Distressing to the max.
     
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    This is very disturbing.
     
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    Maybe it was a rumour. Unsure.
     
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    No not a rumor. I think I heard about it as well.
     
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    War always brings hate, division and atrocities. Also Nancy Fowler from Conyers saw Chinese boots invading the USA. So, why did we have to unite Russia and China? The current administrations foreign policy will only hurt us.
     
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    The current administration foreign policy is global government :(:mad:
     
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    Perhaps this will happen after the "Big One" event on the San Andreas fault or the New Madrid fault.
     
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    Alois Irlmaier mentioned that China would not go very far in this invasion of Alaska and Canada; perhaps this is related to nuclear accidents that would happen on American territory with nuclear power plants due to geological events on the San Andreas Fault or the New Madrid Fault.
     
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    DisastersFifteen U.S. nuclear reactors are located in an active seismic zone
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    Share |told Fox News that the early diagnosis for the nuclear accident in Japan had more to do with the tsunami that followed the 11 March earthquake and the power loss to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility than the 8.9 magnitude temblor.

    “The distinction, the earthquake and the tsunami is kind of an important one,” he said. “The plant survived the earthquake with minimal problems, there’s some questions about the spent fuel pools, but minimal problems, and then it was an hour later when the tsunami hit and they lost all of the their backup power.”

    Fox News reports that DHS is scheduled to conduct a large-scale, interagency disaster response exercise in the New Madrid Seismic Zone this spring. It is an annual exercise held by the federal government, and Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano’s office said the location of this year’s drill is not connected to events in Japan.

    “With respect to the United States, we are constantly practicing” disaster response, Napolitano recently told an audience in Denver.

    Robert Williams, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hazards Team, said the New Madrid Seismic Zone involves eight states, and it is an active earthquake area in the central United States that follows the Mississippi River between Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee.

    “It’s an area that is currently experiencing earthquakes and has a history of magnitude 7 to 8 earthquakes,” Williams said. “But the shaking from a New Madrid quake would involve a much larger area. So it runs along that border and it’s of concern to those communities in the Mississippi River valley as well as Memphis and St. Louis.”

    Should a large seismic event strike this part of the country, seismologists offer Christchurch, New Zealand, rather than Japan as an example of what to expect. In February, Christchurch suffered a 6.3 magnitude quake and billions of dollars in losses.

    “Christchurch has a building infrastructure that’s a lot like what you find in the central U.S. main street, 100-year-old brick buildings, no reinforcement, no consideration of earthquake shaking,” Williams said.

    King, who used to live in the New Madrid region, agreed that infrastructure outside the nuclear plants is the bigger concern. “If I still lived in that area, my biggest worry would be the loss of my utilities, the loss of my power and water,” he said. “The real tragedy in the case of a natural disaster is going to be the natural disaster, not the nuclear.

    https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/fifteen-us-nuclear-reactors-are-located-active-seismic-zone
     
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    Sunnyveil, this is a very enlightening video, with Fr Blount.
    Thank you so much for posting.
     
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