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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5198177" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011020/war-in-ukraine-is-a-metaphysical-battle-against-a-civilization-built-on[/URL]“<a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-russian-orthodox-church-eyes-ukraine/" target="_blank">Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church</a>, delivered a <a href="http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/5906442.html" target="_blank">sermon</a> Sunday in which he referred to the war in Ukraine as a &quot;metaphysical&quot; struggle against a godless international order.He argued that war broke out after eight years of &quot;attempts to destroy what exists in the Donbas,&quot; because the pro-Russian separatist republics embodied &quot;a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power.&quot; Kirill did not mention that a <a href="https://theweek.com/ukraine/1010471/with-gods-help-we-will-win-this-fight-ukrainian-church-leader-says" target="_blank">majority</a> of Ukrainians <a href="https://c/Users/gris_/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Word/Kirill%20did%20not%20mention%20that%20the%20majority%20of%20Ukrainians%20are%20also%20Orthodox%20and%20many%20of%20them%20regard%20him%20as%20their%20spiritual%20leader" target="_blank">are also Orthodox</a>.This world order, Kirill said, offers &quot;excess consumption&quot; and &quot;visible &#039;freedom&#039;&quot; to any nation that proves its loyalty by &quot;hold[ing] a gay parade.&quot; Kyiv <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-pride-lgbt/31467920.html" target="_blank">hosts</a> an annual gay pride parade.In 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/463358/russias-war-gay-pride" target="_blank">a ban on gay &quot;propaganda,&quot;</a> a term that included pride parades”“Putin frequently <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/19243" target="_blank">accuses</a> the West of &quot;denying moral principles and all traditional identities&quot; while portraying Russia as the guardian of &quot;the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization.&quot;<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face&nbsp; &nbsp; :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5198177, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011020/war-in-ukraine-is-a-metaphysical-battle-against-a-civilization-built-on[/URL] “[URL='https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-russian-orthodox-church-eyes-ukraine/']Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church[/URL], delivered a [URL='http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/5906442.html']sermon[/URL] Sunday in which he referred to the war in Ukraine as a "metaphysical" struggle against a godless international order. He argued that war broke out after eight years of "attempts to destroy what exists in the Donbas," because the pro-Russian separatist republics embodied "a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power." Kirill did not mention that a [URL='https://theweek.com/ukraine/1010471/with-gods-help-we-will-win-this-fight-ukrainian-church-leader-says']majority[/URL] of Ukrainians [URL='https://c/Users/gris_/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Word/Kirill%20did%20not%20mention%20that%20the%20majority%20of%20Ukrainians%20are%20also%20Orthodox%20and%20many%20of%20them%20regard%20him%20as%20their%20spiritual%20leader']are also Orthodox[/URL]. [B]This world order, Kirill said, offers "excess consumption" and "visible 'freedom'" to any nation that proves its loyalty by "hold[ing] a gay parade." Kyiv [URL='https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-pride-lgbt/31467920.html']hosts[/URL] an annual gay pride parade. In 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law [URL='https://theweek.com/articles/463358/russias-war-gay-pride']a ban on gay "propaganda,"[/URL] a term that included pride parades” “Putin frequently [URL='http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/19243']accuses[/URL] the West of "denying moral principles and all traditional identities" while portraying Russia as the guardian of "the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization."[/B] 🤔 [/QUOTE]

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