TheArmenian wrote: TR1 wrote:Gay marriage promotion...oh lord.
Pathetic. Passing laws that prohibit people's rights because the Church asked us to!
LOL! Absolutely pathetic and retarded.
Especially when its the bloody Orthadox Church, one of the biggest organizd shitstains on the planet.
Russian priests are particular paragons of ignorance, idiocy and uselessness.
Considering that you are a non-Christian originating from Dagestan, you should refrain from posting garbage like that.
I don't mind other people disagreeing with my beliefs, views and opinions. But I find your post to be very disrespectful, rude and inappropriate.
I am very disappointed at you.
Once again, my origin or lack of religious beliefs has nothing to do with any of it. I will critisize corrupt, backwards, and awfull for human-development groups if I desire so. If anything, it frees me from biases that you guys are clearly influenced by.
The Orthodox Church in Russia is EXTREMELY conservative and regressive, to the point of stupidity. Probably closest to the corruption and excesses that the Catholic CHurch had hundreds of years ago than anyone else today.
They are borderline openly racist at times, severely homophobic, anti-science or any form of societal progress and corrupt as shit.
I don't know what alternate reality you guys live in, but this is the situation, today. Wake up.
You want to practice the teachings of Jesus Christ? Be my guest, it is far from the worst way of living life. But don't tie yourself in with these TRUE degenerates:
http://rt.com/news/patriarch-watch-photo-scandal-326/
Yes Father, preach a good austere CHristian life while driving around in S600s , eating caviar with Putin and wearing a Rolex.
Of course, this does not discount there being very good infuelntial religious priests, often @ the lower levels. These guys do admirable work in bridging religious divides. I think it is an uphill battle, since fundamentally its hard to bring logic and reason into religion, but that's just me.
Oh and by the way, since many of you are hung up about me being from Dagestan (which no offense, is ridiculous), I will say the return of Islam, especially non Sufism to the Kavkaz has been a maaaasive step backwords.
So much brainwashing going on with young kids now, it is terrible.
Best thing we had in USSR, lack of state religion.
How ANYONE can support the Church (ANY CHURCH) influencing political and legal processes, is beyond me.