RE: Damned Christians
May 6, 2022 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2022 at 9:47 am by Fake Messiah.)
First Christians are fuling for Trump in the US, and then they are fuling for Putin in Russia
Quote:The EU threatens Vladimir Putin's Patriarch Kirill
The 75-year-old is one of 58 people newly targeted by the European Union. The suggested sanctions include a travel ban and asset freeze due to their closeness to, and defense of, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his course in Ukraine.
Sanctions would make it unlikely for him to be able to attend the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which takes place in August in Karlsruhe, in western Germany.
Kirill has praised Putin's military adventures abroad, calling operations in Syria, for example, a "holy fight."
He used the same term to describe the invasion of Ukraine, and has stuck with Putin's use of "special operation," rather than calling it a war. Allegations of atrocities committed by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians have not changed his tune that the fighting is about territorial defense, not aggression.
Kirill has also denounced homosexuality and liberal values along the same lines Putin has.
In turn, Putin has allowed religion to be taught in school. Church revenue is tax-free. The Russian president himself often appears at Kirill's services.
The European Commission's recommendation to sanction the Patriarch is not set in stone. EU member states have to agree to it. If it goes through, Kirill may lose properties and other assets he is thought to have in western countries.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the...ar-AAWWUtQ
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"