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Title: Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non-enslaved civilization’
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Published: Feb 26, 2015
Author: Catholic World News
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:19:31 by Pericles
Keywords: Russia
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Comments: 3
Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non- enslaved civilization’ Catholic World News - February 26, 2015 Describing much of Europe as “Babylon,” the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society said that “Russia is the only center of non-[en]slaved civilization,” according to the Interfax news agency. “Our patriotism is not chauvinism,” said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin; rather, it consists in “understanding the importance of the unique Christian mission which, I believe, our people live for.” Chaplin traced the decline of Europe from “Genoa and Venice money-lenders” to the Enlightenment, “then bourgeois structure of the society and state. Then revolution. Finally, we've got what we see in the West … At the best, it's Rome of the late period of decline.” Western European nations, he added, “will lose their physical existence: they will just die out.”
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#1. To: Pericles (#0)
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So the anarcho-capitalist good guys win! I almost feel sorry for those Ruskies under the boot of Putin.
By reverse - according to them, the proof of a "unique Christian Mission" would be having many children and not being a subject to an economic or political disasters.
That is false. And in any case, the commenter seems to use that as a dig against Father Vsevolod which I don't see how it can be since it was an era of transition from USSR to Russia. This by the way is the greates loss of life in peactime: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/books/review/tombstone-the-great- chinese-famine-1958-1962-by-yang-jisheng.html In “Tombstone,” an eye-opening study of the worst famine in history, Yang Jisheng concludes that 36 million Chinese starved to death in the years between 1958 and 1962, while 40 million others failed to be born, which means that “China’s total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million.”
Western European nations, he added, “will lose their physical existence: they will just die out.”
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: Pericles (#0)
Interesting comment on Catholic World News:
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Posted by: Canonigo Regular - Feb. 27, 2015 6:59 AM ET USA
From 1992 to 2011 years Russia suffered the single greatest decline in population of any country in the world during peacetime since the 14th century plagues. It has a net immigration gain each year, but it loses population because the death rate has been much higher than the birth rate. The average woman has 6-8 abortions. What's that about a unique Christian Mission, Father Vsevolod?
#3. To: A Pole (#2)
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From 1992 to 2011 years Russia suffered the single greatest decline in population of any country in the world during peacetime since the 14th century plagues.
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