I agree that Kirill is behaving appallingly by cravenly supporting Putin and his war of aggression against the Ukrainian people. The recent (as in the last century) history of the Patriarchate is complex, and includes times of both persecution and ‘rehabilitation’. But the bottom line is this: christian-nationalism (whether Russian, American or …) has corruption at its core, because at its heart it is a corruption of the Gospel, which cannot be the exclusive possession of any particular tribe or nation.

That pastor looks disconcertingly like Jordan Klepper would if he had been aged up for the piece… until you see that he’s about two feet shorter.

I have seen some quotes from the Russian Patriarch in Moscow. That org has been probably the most corrupt “Christian” institution on the planet over the last century. The things that have been quoted make me sick, because they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oc82jkn83Q

Grateful either way! Either for not being persecuted or for being persecuted on account of what is right …

The event was based on a new report by a joint project of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The full report can be found here: https://bjconline.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Christian_Nationalism_and_the_Jan6_Insurrection-2-9-22.pdf

There’s more White Christian persecuting than persecution going on in the report.

They claim persecution when their bigotry isn’t acceptable.

If you know some people who are eager to be flogged, I would think it wouldn’t be difficult in the age of the Internet, to find someone to oblige them.

In the West we Christians have views of persecution that do not look like nor sound like what Jesus plain view was. Jesus said that the persecuted are blessed as long as they are persecuted for doing the right things. We believe the exact opposite. Persecution is a curse and it needs to be shouted down and done away with at all costs. It has become the go to excuse for conmen to raise money overseas. Accountability is excused away as all details of where the money goes must be buried so deep no one will ever find it. Gospel for Asia and Voice of the Martyrs are two big charity scams hyping this anti-Christ view. Jesus talked about rewards in heaven. We do not believe in that %$^*! All we see is what is here and now, we have no vision whatsoever of any afterlife. And so the word has been dumbed down so much that our narcissist leaders whine about there lack of lording power over others like they use to and that is persecution! It takes bravery to buck a tyrant but now the word is used to describe the whining of tyrants who have lost their power to some extent to abuse others and so that is persecution. We understand nothing of what the likes of Peter, Paul and John went through in the first century.

Saying American Christians aren’t being persecuted is a type of persecution.