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riversedge

(80,810 posts)
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 07:44 AM Dec 2023

Godless Russia has destroyed and damaged hundreds of Ukrainian churches and even cathedrals. The church in the village o

It is hell on earth for the Ukrainians


Godless Russia has destroyed and damaged hundreds of Ukrainian churches and even cathedrals. The church in the village of Novomykhailivka was built in 1907. And as if defying Russia's satanic evil, the cross on its tall spire still stands.

In eastern #Ukraine, the village is on the outskirts of the occupied city of Donetsk. Since Russia's full-scale invasion, Russian forces have been attempting to advance north & west from the city - and as usual, they're flattening everything in that Donbas region.

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Godless Russia has destroyed and damaged hundreds of Ukrainian churches and even cathedrals. The church in the village o (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2023 OP
putin and trump. their god is power. there shall be no other ... bullimiami Dec 2023 #1
Power and money. Irish_Dem Dec 2023 #2
The root of all evil. paleotn Dec 2023 #6
What Trump and Putin are doing is pure evil. Irish_Dem Dec 2023 #9
2013 - Ukraine Euromaidan "Do you hear the people sing...." Donkees Dec 2023 #3
Don't forget to thank the GOP RAB910 Dec 2023 #4
Is there a reputable way BonnieJW Dec 2023 #5
Horrible. yardwork Dec 2023 #7
Putin and Russia aren't godless, they just pay lipservice to the Russian Orthodox Church, Emrys Dec 2023 #8
K/R moondust Dec 2023 #13
Thank you. PufPuf23 Dec 2023 #14
More burned out churches photo ops for Trump holding someone else's Bible. keithbvadu2 Dec 2023 #10
The "godless" part isn't the problem here. It's Putin's brutality and quest for empire. Sky Jewels Dec 2023 #11
But some atheists say atheists are superior to believers but others like me Wonder Why Dec 2023 #12

RAB910

(4,030 posts)
4. Don't forget to thank the GOP
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 10:07 AM
Dec 2023

this wouldn't have been possible without their help and support

Emrys

(9,100 posts)
8. Putin and Russia aren't godless, they just pay lipservice to the Russian Orthodox Church,
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 11:06 AM
Dec 2023

which, under its current patriarch for life, Kirill, is as bloodthirsty, warmongering, Putin-loyalist and revolting as the rest of the regime, and thinks God is on their side.

Russia's activities in Ukraine, from plundering and destroying historical sites and artefacts to abducting thousands of children and trying to turn them into good Russians, along with atrocities against people in general and razing cities and towns to the ground, are unarguably genocide, and in some quarters are seen as a religious war, or at least one with strong religious undertones, with numerous clergy in the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine having been found to be treasonous.

Some background:



moondust

(21,286 posts)
13. K/R
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 03:13 PM
Dec 2023

Thanks for posting this. Kirill may be bloodthirsty and warmongering but his loyalty to Putin sure has paid off in great wealth and power!!!!

Shameless heresy seems pretty common these days and not just in Russia. Has Putin held up a Bible for the cameras in front of an Orthodox Cathedral lately?

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
11. The "godless" part isn't the problem here. It's Putin's brutality and quest for empire.
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 01:39 PM
Dec 2023

"Godless" isn't a pejorative. There are hundreds of millions of peace-loving people worldwide who value rational thinking and simply see no evidence for the existence of deities. That doesn't make them evil.


Wonder Why

(7,025 posts)
12. But some atheists say atheists are superior to believers but others like me
Sun Dec 24, 2023, 01:54 PM
Dec 2023

say we all have good and bad.

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