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Putin Warns Obama – You’ve Turned USA & West Into Godless Sewer, Declares His Christian Faith
With
God as our witness to the truthfulness of the following statement, we
thus testify: Never in our sickest nightmares would we ever have
believed that the President of Russia, not the POTUS would be the man of
Christian faith and values.
Barracuda
Brigade openly and without hesitation tips our hat to Vladimir Putin.
Sir, everything you said as recorded in this report, you’re right!
To
America and the free world we say the following: either we get back to
the faith and values that allowed us to prosper, or we’re toast.
This starts with the immediate removal from office of Barack Obama and David Cameron.
Before It’s News At
the height of the Cold War, it was common for American conservatives to
label the officially atheist Soviet Union a “godless nation.”
More than two decades on, history has come full circle, as the Kremlin and its allies in the Russian Orthodox Church hurl the same allegation at the West.
“Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a recent keynote speech. “Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
In his state of the nation address in mid-December, Mr. Putin also portrayed Russia as a staunch defender of “traditional values” against what he depicted as the morally bankrupt West. Social and religious conservatism, the former KGB officer insisted, is the only way to prevent the world from slipping into “chaotic darkness.”
As part of this defense of “Christian values,” Russia has adopted a law banning “homosexual propaganda” and another that makes it a criminal offense to “insult” the religious sensibilities of believers.
The law on religious sensibilities was adopted in the wake of a protest in Moscow’s largest cathedral by a female punk rock group against the Orthodox Church’s support of Mr. Putin. Kremlin-run television said the group’s “demonic” protest was funded by “some Americans.”
Mr. Putin’s views of the West were echoed this month by Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the leader of the Orthodox Church, who accused Western countries of engaging in the “spiritual disarmament” of their people.
In particular, Patriarch Kirill criticized laws in several European countries that prevent believers from displaying religious symbols, including crosses on necklaces, at work.
“The general political direction of the [Western political] elite bears, without doubt, an anti-Christian and anti-religious character,” the patriarch said in comments aired on state-controlled television.
More than two decades on, history has come full circle, as the Kremlin and its allies in the Russian Orthodox Church hurl the same allegation at the West.
“Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a recent keynote speech. “Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
In his state of the nation address in mid-December, Mr. Putin also portrayed Russia as a staunch defender of “traditional values” against what he depicted as the morally bankrupt West. Social and religious conservatism, the former KGB officer insisted, is the only way to prevent the world from slipping into “chaotic darkness.”
As part of this defense of “Christian values,” Russia has adopted a law banning “homosexual propaganda” and another that makes it a criminal offense to “insult” the religious sensibilities of believers.
The law on religious sensibilities was adopted in the wake of a protest in Moscow’s largest cathedral by a female punk rock group against the Orthodox Church’s support of Mr. Putin. Kremlin-run television said the group’s “demonic” protest was funded by “some Americans.”
Mr. Putin’s views of the West were echoed this month by Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the leader of the Orthodox Church, who accused Western countries of engaging in the “spiritual disarmament” of their people.
In particular, Patriarch Kirill criticized laws in several European countries that prevent believers from displaying religious symbols, including crosses on necklaces, at work.
“The general political direction of the [Western political] elite bears, without doubt, an anti-Christian and anti-religious character,” the patriarch said in comments aired on state-controlled television.
“We
have been through an epoch of atheism, and we know what it is to live
without God,” Patriarch Kirill said. “We want to shout to the whole
world, ‘Stop!’”
“The
separation of the secular and the religious is a fatal mistake by the
West,” the Rev. Chaplin said. “It is a monstrous phenomenon that has
occurred only in Western civilization and will kill the West, both
politically and morally.”
The
Kremlin’s encouragement of traditional values has sparked a rise in
Orthodox vigilantism. Fringe groups such as the Union of Orthodox Banner
Bearers, an ultraconservative movement whose slogan is “Orthodoxy or
Death,” are gaining prominence.
Patriarch Kirill has honored the group’s leader, openly anti-Semitic monarchist Leonid Simonovich, for his services to the Orthodox Church.
The Banner Bearers, who dress in black paramilitary uniforms festooned
with skulls, regularly confront gay and liberal activists on the streets
of Moscow.
Although Mr. Putin has
never made a secret of what he says is his deep Christian faith, his
first decade in power was largely free of overtly religious rhetoric.
Little or no attempt was made to impose a set of values on Russians or
lecture to the West on morals.
However,
since his inauguration for a third presidential term in May 2012, the
increasingly authoritarian leader has sought to reach out to Russia’s conservative, xenophobic heartland for support.
It has proved a rich hunting ground.
“Western
values, from liberalism to the recognition of the rights of sexual
minorities, from Catholicism and Protestantism to comfortable jails for
murderers, provoke in us suspicion, astonishment and alienation,”
Yevgeny Bazhanov, rector of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic
academy, wrote in a recent essay.
Analysts suggest that Mr. Putin’s shift to ultraconservatism and anti-West rhetoric was triggered by mass protests against his rule that rocked Russia in
2011 and 2012. The unprecedented show of dissent was led mainly by
educated, urban Muscovites — many with undisguised pro-Western
sympathies.
“This is the government’s response to modernized Russians becoming more defiant and independent,” said Maria Lipman,
an analyst with the Moscow-based Carnegie Center. “The government is
pitting the conservative majority against the liberal minority. As a
result, raging anti-Western ideology has now turned into something that
is almost a state ideology.”
Ms. Lipman, however, suggested that Mr. Putin may be wary of expressing too much support for the Orthodox Church — “a symbol of Russian statehood” — lest it someday challenge his authority.
Some
70 percent of Russians define themselves as Orthodox Christians in
opinion polls, and opposition figures in the past have called on the church to play a mediating role between the Kremlin and protesters.
“Because of Putin’s shift to conservatism, the church may feel more emboldened,” Ms. Lipman said. “So Putin does not overemphasize the church in speeches, preferring to concentrate on talk of traditional values. He is wary of boosting its support even higher.”
CREDIT TO: The Washington Times / Before It’s News
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