Do you think something is going down this weekend? ?
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I think one of the good things is today in Russia Orthodoxy isn't being matryed out of existence like it was in the USSR. They have much more religious freedom than before.
Depends on how you look at it. They are building churches all over, destroying city parks in the process if a church wants prime land (doesn't sit well with locals who are used to parks for their kids to play in). The bad part? They have closed tens of thousands of schools in the process, education system is now on par with ours. Putin ex-communicated Soros, who invested heavily into dumbing down education same way he did here, but seemingly too late. So, while people, in general, HAVE turned to God, their current young generation is still brain washed to hell and back by the education system and are increasingly turning against religion, and are now demanding return of USSR. Memorials to Stalin are being built, historical monuments destroyed here and there, utter disrespect for veterans of WWII, nowhere near the scale we see here, but rather concerning, still. The new generation is godless, clueless and hopeless, not much different than what we see here. And Russian Church never misses an opportunity to stick their opulent living in people's faces all the while preaching against it, so now even those who turned to religion since the fall are questioning the whole thing.
I am more in favor of the Russian Orthodox Church than I am of the Greek Orthodox Church (Met. Bartholomew I) so I may be a bit bias, in the Orthodox church its heavily condemned accepting gifts from people in power I know the ordeal with the autocephaly of the Ukraine churches by Bart was seen as a very bad move and Bart accepting some sort of deal in his favor for this move. Which caused Russia and Constantinople to cut ties, while this is a move that is beneficial for Copts as we have a better relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church.
As for what you have said, I haven't heard any of that from my Russian Orthodox friends, so I can not say it is or isn't true. Putin isn't a good leader, but he is a better leader than when Russia was under the USSR, Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica was a Serbian but he also suffered a lot from the persecution, I remember him talking about when he was arrested and thrown into jail there were a lot of priests and monks that had that happen to them.
Well, at least Putin is not selling the country, so there is that. Corrupt? Of course, and helping his friends as well. That said, had he not taken over we'd see a complete destruction and selling out, a la Xiden, by Khodorkovsky and rest of oligarchs. So, the devil I know versus one I do not, main reason so many, as much as they know what's going on, still prefer Putin since he, at least, is a patriot of Russia.
All I am saying is you'd be very disappointed with what's going on in Russia as it relates to their Orthodoxy, as corrupt as the gov, very intertwined by now. Its not Vatican and red shoes by any means, Russians would never stand for that, but graft, opulance in your face, priests wearing 2-3 kilo crosses/chains (ala our rappers here), driving very expensive Mercs and Rollses, having gov enforce very unlawful real estate takeovers of prime land and houses, etc. All the while preaching very opposite values. People aren't blind when corruption is on display.
Not at all saying the religion itself is bad, just the other side of it in Russia no one here reports.
I am not Eastern Orthodox, I am Oriental Orthodox (the irony of that both mean the word Eastern) so if they are corrupt it wouldn't really disappoint me because in my eyes all of the Chalcedonians are corrupt from the very first time they schisimed from the Church (not the believers but the foundations of their churches and the beliefs the priests follow).
What I do like is the fact that they are not killing off the people, I am sure there are many priests over there who are not in the pocket of Putin and want to root out the corruption, it is probably a situation that isn't as grave as what is going on in Ethiopia (the government has installed several of their own priests that the people do not recognize to be valid and are now killing anyone who opposes it) but still the government is trying to control it.