MOSCOW — At the height of the Cold War, it was
common for American conservatives to label the
officially atheist Soviet Union a “godless nation.”
More than two decades on, history has come full
circle, as the Kremlin and its allies in the
Russian Orthodox Church hurl the same
allegation at the West.
“Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away
from their roots, including Christian values,”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a recent
keynote speech. “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.”

In his state of the nation address in mid-
December, Mr. 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.”
As part of this defense of “Christian values,”
Russia has adopted a law banning “homosexual
propaganda” and another that makes it a criminal
offense to “insult” the religious sensibilities of
believers.
The law on religious sensibilities was adopted in
the wake of a protest in Moscow’s largest
cathedral by a female punk rock group against
the Orthodox Church’s support of Mr. Putin .
Kremlin-run television said the group’s “demonic”
protest was funded by “some Americans.”

Mr. Putin ’s views of the West were echoed this
month by Patriarch Kirill I 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!’”
Other figures within the Orthodox Church have
gone further in criticizing the West. Archpriest
Vsevolod Chaplin, a church spokesman,
suggested that the modern-day West is no better
for a Christian believer than the Soviet Union.
Soviet authorities executed some 200,000 clergy
and believers from 1917 to 1937, according to a
1995 presidential committee report. 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.”
The Kremlin’s encouragement of traditional
values has sparked a rise in Orthodox vigilantism.
Fringe groups such as the Union of Orthodox
Banner Bearers, an ultraconservative movement
whose slogan is “Orthodoxy or Death,” are
gaining prominence.
Patriarch Kirill has honored the group’s leader,
openly anti-Semitic monarchist Leonid
Simonovich, for his services to the Orthodox
Church. The Banner Bearers, who dress in black
paramilitary uniforms festooned with skulls,
regularly confront gay and liberal activists on the
streets of Moscow.

Although Mr. 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. Little or no attempt was made
to impose a set of values on Russians or lecture
to the West on morals.
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.
Analysts suggest that Mr. Putin ’s shift to
ultraconservatism and anti-West rhetoric was
triggered by mass protests against his rule that
rocked Russia in 2011 and 2012. The
unprecedented show of dissent was led mainly
by educated, urban Muscovites — many with
undisguised pro-Western sympathies.
“This is the government’s response to
modernized Russians becoming more defiant and
independent,” said Maria Lipman, an analyst with
the Moscow-based Carnegie Center. “The
government is pitting the conservative majority
against the liberal minority. As a result, raging
anti-Western ideology has now turned into
something that is almost a state ideology.”
Ms. Lipman, however, suggested that Mr. Putin
may be wary of expressing too much support for
the Orthodox Church — “a symbol of Russian
statehood” — lest it someday challenge his
authority.
Some 70 percent of Russians define themselves
as Orthodox Christians in opinion polls, and
opposition figures in the past have called on the
church to play a mediating role between the
Kremlin and protesters.
“Because of Putin ’s shift to conservatism, the
church may feel more emboldened,” Ms. Lipman
said. “So Putin does not overemphasize the
church in speeches, preferring to concentrate on
talk of traditional values. He is wary of

its support even higher.”
source: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/28/whos-godless-now-russia-says-its-us/

True word. CIA amd those demonic silent world controllers want to bring Rusia down. Not only Rusia but any world power that they consider a competition that wouldnt follow their dictates.
Just as they raised opposotion for Ghadafi, Sadam husein and co and then they used the people to usurp power and then creat a war to distabilize the country to give them open doors to walk in and rape the country till it bleeds. I hope Rusians know that the best way to spite ones face is not buy chopping off the nose.

Man doing man...... Man doing animals next! May God help next generations

U.S x so pathetic

















God bless Nigeria

I love his boldness. I'm so disappointed in USA. smh
that country z doomed!

Thank u putin... D whole world needs to talk on deir voices.. because if we dont, ds cia demons will infiltrate ds gay values to oda countries.. Well dats y I love Nigeria....

Are there still Christians in the USA


America and it allies will surely not escape God's wrath when it begins.


I'm may now be convinced that America is the great Babylon mentioned in book of Revelation.

Obama God will punish u