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Re: Putin's War: It's Really All Amout Religious Wackyism and Gay Pride Parades - Seriously

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>Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his cou
>ntry's war on Ukraine, and some are more plausible than others. They includ
>e stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russi
>ans from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine.
>
>The top-ranking priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, meanwhile, has offer
>ed a very different reason for the invasion: gay pride parades.
>
>Patriarch Kirill said last week that the conflict is an extension of a fund
>amental culture clash between the wider Russian world and Western liberal v
>alues, exemplified by expressions of gay pride.
>
>Yet experts say that Kirill's comments offer important insights into Putin'
>s larger spiritual vision of a return to a Russian Empire, in which the Ort
>hodox religion plays a pivotal role.
>
>Importance of Kyiv
>
>The city of Kyiv is highly symbolic for both Putin and Kirill because of it
>s connection to Vladimir I, a medieval ruler of Kievan Rus' -- a territory 
>which included parts of both current-day Ukraine and Russia -- who converte
>d to Christianity in around 988.
>
>"According to the now-dominant Russian nationalist view, Vladimir was the f
>ounding father of the first Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church. 
>State and church formed a productive symbiosis and Kiev (or Kyiv) became th
>e cradle of Russian civilization," Michels wrote.
>
>"Putin considers Vladimir the savior of Russia," Michels told CNN. "To him,
> Kyiv and Crimea, where Vladimir was baptized, are sacred Russian lands."
>The Christianization of Kievan Rus' is the founding narrative upon which Pu
>tin and Kirill claim Ukraine as part of Russia.
>
>"They're trying to wrest this legacy of Kievan Rus' for Russia and that's a
> really critical part of Putin's view of history and the role of Russian Or
>thodoxy in that history," said Smolkin.
>
>"What Putin is claiming is that he is restoring the natural God-given order
> of things: that the Ukrainians and Russians have always been one people an
>d they all know that because they all come from Kievan Rus' and they're all
> Orthodox."
>
>More:
>
>https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/europe/patriarch-kirill-putin-spiritual-batt
>le-intl-cmd/index.html
>
>

We don't need to wait for God to kill Putin.

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