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Russia will defend national identity, based on religious values - Putin



Valdai, Russia, September 20, Interfax - People will lose their human dignity without values enshrined in Christianity and other world religions, without moral standards that have taken millennia to take shape, President Vladimir Putin.

"We believe that it is natural and appropriate to defend those values. Any minority deserves respect for its distinctive identity, but the rights of the majority must not be questioned," Putin said during a meeting of the Valdai discussion club.

He believes, that Russia can't move forward without cultural and national self-determination. Otherwise the country won't be able to respond to external or internal challenges, can't be successful in global competition.

"Events that take place in the world represent one more serious challenge to the Russian identity. There are foreign policy and moral aspects to this. We have been able to see many Euro-Atlantic countries effectively embark on a path of renouncing their roots, including Christian values, which underlie Western civilization," Putin said.

"That involves the negation of moral principles and any traditional identity - national, cultural, religious, or even sexual," he said.

"Policies are pursued that put large families and same-sex partnerships in the same category, belief in God and belief in Satan. Excesses of political correctness reach the point where there are serious discussions on the registration of parties that have propaganda of pedophilia as their objective. People in many European countries are ashamed and afraid of speaking about their religion, holidays are abolished or given other names, names that shyly conceal the nature of those holidays, and aggressive attempts are made to force this model on the rest of the world," Putin said.

"This is a direct path to degradation and primitiveness, to deep demographic and moral crises," he said.

"What can be a better indication of a moral crisis in human society than its loss of the ability for self-reproduction?" Putin said.

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=dujour&div=218

Re: Russia To Protect Christian Foundations
 

I have a friend who is from Russia, her family is still living there. She told me that Putin has been restoring the Christian churches in Russia.

I ran across this article some months ago and found it to be very interesting, mainly because Putin is getting a divorce.

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Putin 2016!!!

Woo-hoo!

:happydance

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I never thought I would respect the President of Russia more than........you know what I mean.

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Indeed. A sad day that it's come to this.

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You guys are DECEIVED if you think for one minute that Putin is emphasizing his idea of "Christian Values" for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The dude is a homophobe!
Homosexuals have been increasingly targeted for brutality and murder!

Racism??? Virtually anyone non-Russian looking have been increasingly targeted for brutality and murder!

I'd rather have a President that is clear than a KGB operative using religion for more sinister plans.

You guys don't know what you want.

An "ORTHODOX" Christian theocracy would most likely have you non-Trinitarians burned alive!

You want to live in Russia? You want to live in a place that only value individual liberties when it is line with a wicked leader's motives? GO AHEAD! LEAVE!

NO ONE IS SAYING YOU HAVE TO STAY IN AMERICA!

You think the grass is greener? Go ahead-- eat their fertilizer!

When the poison works through you, maybe you will appreciate AMERICA (and even President Obama)!

You all should be ashamed of yourselves!

Have you no APPRECIATION at all for individual liberty?
Do you not see individual liberty as being a key part in truly loving our GOD and Savior Jesus Christ?

The USSR was the first nation to FORCE universal atheism on its citizens-- but Russia is so different from the USSR, right? Russia wasn't the seat of the USSR and Putin had nothing but disdain for the USSR government and its atheistic leanings from day one he was forced to become a KGB operative.

Putin was just going through the ranks so that one day, he can bring Christianity to Russia!

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I am ashamed of a president who praises Planned Parenthood and the abortion killers who have murdered over 50 million children. And who is doing all he can to PROMOTE THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE.

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