Beneath the gold onion domes of the Danilov Monastery a few miles south of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin’s chief shaman explains why Russia is hell-bent on destroying Ukraine.
“If we see [Ukraine] as a threat, we have the right to use force to ensure the threat is eradicated,” Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill recently preached to his church’s 90 million faithful followers. “We have entered into a conflict which has not only physical but also metaphysical significance. We are talking about human salvation, something much more important than politics.”
The wartime coalition between Putin and his patriarch is called symphonia, an ironclad alliance between church and state that assures reciprocal reverence, with neither institution presuming to dominate the other. Theologians have spent centuries bickering over the fine points, which have now impaled 44 million Ukrainians as the victims of a bloodthirsty land-grab that Putin and the Patriarch have packaged as a holy campaign to cleanse souls.
“A new world order is born before our very eyes,” is how Putin described the relationship in a statement […]
Seems to be a proclivity for Russia. I’m remembering Rasputin, another fascist ‘shaman’. In the US, we have gospel embodied preachers.. All being linked to shame and punishment.
This bodes ill for many of us.
God had sent Moses to humankind to bring His 10 Commandments !
God also sent us His Progressive Revelation through also Khrishna, Zoroaster, Jesus, Buddham, Muhammad, and Baja’u’llah announced by the Bab in Persia 200 years ago: which is God’s Message for Humankind in our age now !
The relationship between Putin and his Christina Orthodox leader is diabolic to say the least ! That it resulted in the killing of Ukraine by Russia is diabolic = “the devil’s work”.
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