America Is Godless

It’s a sad “state of affairs” if Putin has to point out that America is “Godless” and has turned away from “Christian” values.

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the West, including the United States, for eschewing Christian values and opting instead for a “path to degradation.”

In his “State of the Nation” speech Putin asserted that “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”

Putin also portrayed Russia as a staunch defender of “traditional values” against what he depicted as the “morally bankrupt” West. Social and religious “conservatism,” the former KGB officer insisted, is the only way to prevent the world from slipping into “chaotic darkness.”

His views of the West were “echoed” by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the leader of the Orthodox Church, who accused Western countries of engaging in the “spiritual disarmament” of their people.

In particular, Patriarch Kirill criticized laws in several European countries that prevent believers from displaying “religious symbols,” including crosses on necklaces, at work.

“The general political direction of the Western political elite bears, without doubt, an anti-Christian and anti-religious character,” the patriarch said in comments aired on state-controlled television.

“We have been through an epoch of atheism, and we know what it is to live without God,” Patriarch Kirill said. “We want to shout to the whole world, ‘Stop!’”

Russia has adopted new laws that ban “homosexual” propaganda and criminalizes the “insulting” of religious sensibilities.

The law on religious sensibilities was approved in the wake of a protest in Moscow’s largest cathedral by a female punk rock group, Pussy Riot. State-run television said the group’s “demonic” protest was funded by “some Americans.”

Russia’s new found embrace of “traditional” values has prompted a rise in Orthodox “vigilantism.” Extreme groups such as the “Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers,” an ultraconservative faction who adopted a slogan “Orthodoxy or Death,” are gaining prominence.

It was not that long ago that the United States was accusing Russia for being a “godless nation.” On March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan said this about Russia to an audience of evangelicals:

“Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness–pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.”

History supports the 40th President of the United States’ remarks. According to a 1995 Russian presidential committee report, Soviet authorities “executed” 200,000 clergy and believers from 1917 to 1937.

“Many were crucified on churches’ holy gates, shot, scalped, strangled or otherwise tortured,” said Alexander Yakovlev, head of the Commission for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Repression.

“I was especially shocked by accounts of priests turned into columns of ice in winter,” Yakovlev said. “It was total cruelty.”

Thousands of churches were destroyed, and those that survived were turned into warehouses, garages, or museums of atheism.

“The separation of the secular and the religious is a fatal mistake by the West,” the Rev. Chaplin said. “It is a monstrous phenomenon that has occurred only in Western civilization and will kill the West, both politically and morally.”

Moreover, another 500,000 religious figures were persecuted and 40,000 churches destroyed in the period from 1922 to 1980, the report said. “Half the country’s mosques and more than half the synagogues were also destroyed. “

Although Putin has never made a secret of what he says is his deep “Christian” faith, his first decade in power was largely free of “overtly” religious rhetoric. However, since his inauguration for a third presidential term in May 2012, the increasingly authoritarian leader has sought to reach out to Russia’s “conservative, xenophobic” heartland for support.

It has proved a rich hunting ground. “Western values, from liberalism to the recognition of the rights of sexual minorities, from Catholicism and Protestantism to comfortable jails for murderers, provoke in us suspicion, astonishment and alienation,” Yevgeny Bazhanov, rector of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic academy, wrote in a recent essay.

In lieu of a president who “respects” Judeo-Christian values, an ex-KGB officer from a formerly atheist country is actually “warning” the West about how “godlessness” results in the kind of “chaotic darkness,” “belief in Satan,” and “path to degradation” that America is currently on.

But what’s “ironic” is that in this case, a leader who should be viewed with “extreme” caution is actually speaking “truth” to nations hell-bent on “repeating” Soviet Russia’s mistakes.

So it’s come to this sad “state of affairs.”

Sad “state of affairs” Obama mocking the Bible and Putin pointing out America having lost Christian values.
Sad “state of affairs”when Vladimir Putin has to point out the American government’s loss of moral values.
Sad “state of affairs”when we want real news, we have to go to overseas news sources.
Sad “state of affairs” Putin speaking the truth something Obama cannot do.
Sad “state of affairs” when Putin sounds more American than our own President.

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