MOSCOW — At the height of the Cold War, it was common for American conservatives to label the officially atheist Soviet Union a “godless nation.”Read the rest here.
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.
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4 comments:
Patriarch Kirill is right. Thanks
to the courts, "spiritual disarmament" of the people is well
underway here.
Yes, we in spiritual decline, and have been for 50 years. Still, one can hardly look at Russia and see a godly nation. Russian Orthodoxy is a continent wide and a half inch deep. It is mostly a political entity.
Fr. J, while I agree that there is a lot about Russian Orthodoxy that is politicized, I think we should not be so quick to think that is the bulk of what it is. Among other things, I am reading through Everyday Saints by Archimandrite Tikhon and there is enough there, even allowing for national pride or what-have-you, to see a real spiritual life.
It is mostly a political entity.
Is there a Patriarchate that hasn't been?
The Orthodox Jews and Muslims don't buy the secularist gospel. Why should Christians?
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