• Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Persecution in Archhangelsk

Q

Quantrill

Active Member
It won't be long that Christians in America will be making similar appeals.

Had that been a Christian group in America, it would have been shouted down and attacked by Antifa and BLM and SPLC. and the NFL. And the Media would have applauded them in doing so.

That said, it was a good film and I do pray for those Russian Christians.

Quantrill
 
S

Scott Downey

Well-Known Member
church mouse guy said:
Because Putin is after the JWs all the time, I myself have assumed that he only tolerates the Russian Orthodox.

Putin Signs Measure Revoking Religious Freedom: ‘Most Restrictive in Post-Soviet History’
Click to expand...
I agree, Russian Orthodoxy is fine by him and most of Russia.
This law against public religious expressions may have its root in the interests of orthodoxy similar to how Europe and Catholicism got along in the middle ages with protestants being persecuted.
And it will cut everyway, including against Islamic calls to prayer being blasted over loudspeakers.
The church should still be able to talk privately with interested people without worry, maybe if someone complains.
Maybe a family member might complain to authorities if someone is doing that to one of their own.

I can see how JW would be impacted seeing they witness door to door to strangers.
 
R

RighteousnessTemperance&

Well-Known Member
Scott Downey said:
I agree, Russian Orthodoxy is fine by him and most of Russia.
This law against public religious expressions may have its root in the interests of orthodoxy similar to how Europe and Catholicism got along in the middle ages with protestants being persecuted.
And it will cut everyway, including against Islamic calls to prayer being blasted over loudspeakers.
The church should still be able to talk privately with interested people without worry, maybe if someone complains.
Maybe a family member might complain to authorities if someone is doing that to one of their own.

I can see how JW would be impacted seeing they witness door to door to strangers.
Click to expand...
Likely a fruitful church. They tend to go after those the most. And yes, the Orthodox returned to persecuting the non-Orthodox, albeit unevenly and not yet as extremely as under the tsars. They seem to have learned nothing from themselves having been persecuted under communism.
 
rsr

rsr

<b> 7,000 posts club</b>
Moderator
Putin, like the tsars before him, adopts the Russian Orthodox Church as part of the governing structure of Russia. The church had been a firm supporter of the Russian state since Peter I absorbed it into the government, and it played that role through until the Revolution of 1917. Defense of Orthodoxy was a common pretext for the tsars to meddle in Balkan politics.

Putin has supported Russian Orthodox claims to bolster his own rule and expand Russian revanchism toward Ukraine. The Patriarch of Constantinople two years ago granted the Ukrainian Orthodox Church self-government, officially breaking from the Russian Orthodox Church because he viewed the Russian presence as a form of imperialism. The Russian Orthodox Church (which still has a large presence in Ukraine) has resisted the move; in fact, the primate of Moscow recently announced that the Turkish government's reconversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque was punishment upon the Constantinople patriarch for splitting the Ukrainian church.

Jehovah's Witnesses are common victims of authoritarian states because of their public proselytizing and refusal to swear allegiance to any government.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top