(March 3, 2016 at 3:22 pm)abaris Wrote:(March 3, 2016 at 2:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Cold as ice does not mean you cant be religious and cold. He DOES believe in a god. Just like it is bullshit to claim Hitler was an atheist. You can be religious AND power hungry. Most psychopaths and sociopaths are power hungry theist or not. It is just that Putin IS a believer.
As opposed to Hitler, we don't have records of his private conversations and aren't privy to what his immediate entourage had to say.
He may be all of the above, but we don't know. We know the persona and that he's going through the motions. Pleasing the church because it's got power over many people. Pleasing the anti gay nationalists. Everything else is pure speculation, since nobody knows that man, other than that he always knew how to pick the right friends to further his own career.
Here is a recent video where Putin seems to backpeddle, but even he admits that there ARE anti gay laws he supports he calls them "gay propaganda" and says that should be kept from children. Much the same half assed bigotry many homophobes still have in America "I don't care I just don't want to see it", basically hide who you are.
His government had the Female punk band Pussy Riot arrested for criticizing the church and his government. The band is pro LGBT and called his tactics a reflection of "the imperial politics" of the Soviet Union".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot
NOW, read the following article because PUTIN has been in rule since 99 in one form or fashion, and the majority of Russia, has a dim view of homosexuality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
Putin signed the anti gay propaganda laws enacted between 2006 and 2013.
Now, that is far different from what he said years ago. I don't trust that fucker on anything, alot like I don't trust Trump When he calls Mexicans rapists but says "I am sure some of them are decent".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvTYMhbMbQ0
