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Title: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: Andiron on December 08, 2022, 10:42:46 PM
That little jewish *expletive deleted*it running Ukraine just banned the Eastern Orthodox Church.

https://apnews.com/article/zelenskyy-kyiv-religion-europe-government-and-politics-7eaf9ac19b000a2147f0204877a0004e

Guess if he can't false flag his way into WW3 by bombing Poland he'll just have to settle for starting a Crusade. Who needs Article 5 then?
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 09, 2022, 02:34:50 AM
Not an accurate assessment at all.

"Eastern Orthodox" includes Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox (both factions), Greek Orthodox, and several others. Zelensky has not "banned" Orthodox Christianity. He has called for an investigation of the pro-Russian side of the Ukrainian Orthodox schism. Probably a wise move on his part.
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: cordex on December 09, 2022, 07:13:16 AM
Interesting framing of the issue, Andiron.
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: charby on December 09, 2022, 07:26:32 AM
I saw/heard in the news earlier this week that a "Russian aligned Orthodox" priest in Ukraine was sharing Ukrainian soldier positions with the Russian soldiers.
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: cordex on December 09, 2022, 07:58:37 AM
A Christian church that I've attended recently had a branch in a predominantly Catholic African country arbitrarily and without cause stripped of its designation as a religious organization and was completely prohibited from attending church or otherwise practicing their faith.  They're working on legally reestablishing themselves, hopefully without having to resort to a Holy War.

Religious freedom is not a universally protected constant.  Many of the freedoms and protections we take for granted are completely foreign to most of the world. 

Whether or not Zelenskyy has legitimate reasons for his actions, this is not something that even raises an eyebrow for me when it comes to abuses of religious freedom, much less incites me to engrave Deus Vult into a rifle and join the Russian Foreign Legion.  For that matter, does anyone think that Russia has some sort of comparably good, recent record when it comes to religious freedom?  You know they have laws prohibiting religious evangelism and missionary work outside of designated religious sites, right?  Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Russia as an extremist organization and many have been imprisoned.
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: K Frame on December 09, 2022, 08:06:45 AM
Stop hyperventilating and actually read the article and you'll see that your assessment is... well... to put it charitably, wrong.
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: French G. on December 09, 2022, 09:50:06 AM
Stop hyperventilating and actually read the article and you'll see that your assessment is... well... to put it charitably, wrong.

Not when you read it with your untermensch filter turned on.
Title: Re: Everyone ready for a Holy War?
Post by: RoadKingLarry on December 09, 2022, 11:51:44 AM
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Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Russia as an extremist organization and many have been imprisoned.

And the downside of that is??
 :rofl:

(Just kidding, lighten up Francis)