At Expense of All Others, Putin Picks a Church

[Sally]

"The Kremlin’s surrogates in many areas have turned the Russian Orthodox Church into a de facto official religion, warding off other Christian denominations that seem to offer the most significant competition for worshipers".

 

“We deplore those who are led astray those Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, evangelicals, Pentecostals and many others who cut Christ’s robes like bandits, who are like the soldiers who crucified Christ, who ripped apart Christ’s holy coat,” declared the priest, the Rev. Aleksei D. Zorin.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/world/europe/24church.html?referringSource=articleShare

Edited March 9, 2020 by Sally

[boodles]

Seems like a good article from 2008. I didn't read the whole article because the NYT allows only so many free articles per month.

[minister159]

It's like when you go to a restaurant and they serve different kinds of wine and salad dressing, but they also serve what they call the house wine and dressing. In Russia they only want to serve up the "house" or state religion, which is Russian Orthodox, and don't serve any other kinds. If you don't want to practice the "house" religion, you have to go somewhere else, I suppose. Apparently it's all part of President Putin's pro-Russia agenda. If it's not Russian, he doesn't want it, period.

Edited March 9, 2020 by minister159

[EccentricM]

🙄

[Barbllm]

Typical of any totalitarian government: it's good as long as they control it.