All I know is Russia, an enthusiastically Orthodox Christian country didn’t persecute or arrest the priests or close down the Churches as national security threats. As for Ukraine, if the Divine Liturgy is a threat to your national security it strongly indicates an anti Christian nation. It’d be easy for me to pick a side based on that alone. The extreme corruption, the color revolution coup, and nefarious goings on aside. Still, in my Church, in the Litany the war in Ukraine is given a Lord Have Mercy. They should say “cut the crapola”, with a Grant This O Lord, but that’s why I’m not a Liturgist.
All I know is Russia, an enthusiastically Orthodox Christian country didn’t persecute or arrest the priests or close down the Churches as national security threats. As for Ukraine, if the Divine Liturgy is a threat to your national security it strongly indicates an anti Christian nation. It’d be easy for me to pick a side based on that alone. The extreme corruption, the color revolution coup, and nefarious goings on aside. Still, in my Church, in the Litany the war in Ukraine is given a Lord Have Mercy. They should say “cut the crapola”, with a Grant This O Lord, but that’s why I’m not a Liturgist.