Why aren't American believers protesting

Nagomirov said:

We do not have such situations, I am writing to you that they pay good salaries, traditional values and a patriarchal society in our country. Putin raised the country. Under Yeltsin, they lived poorly, poorly. Our people love Putin, especially the old generation. Because they have something to compare how they lived at the age of 90 and how they live now.

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You never disagree with your government about anything, ever?

I'm sure that there's much that's wonderful about Russia, and I'm glad you have a homeland that you enjoy living in. But everyone disagrees with their government sooner or later. When you do disagree, what do you do about it?

Nagomirov said:

And why is Trump calling on him to apologize to Christians?

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To cash in on the manufactured outrage.

Nagomirov said:

Well, isn't it funny or ridiculous for you?

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The reaction to it is.

Nagomirov said:

You have transgender people. You write about it as a matter of course, as a familiar phenomenon.

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Yep.

PloverWing said:

You never disagree with your government about anything, ever?

I'm sure that there's much that's wonderful about Russia, and I'm glad you have a homeland that you enjoy living in. But everyone disagrees with their government sooner or later. When you do disagree, what do you do about it?

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He can't say or he'll be in big trouble...

Nithavela said:

He can't say or he'll be in big trouble...

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But the police are so gentle! What’s the problem?

Nagomirov said:

The instigators

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Yes must stop counter revolutionaries.

Nagomirov said:

Why do you think Navalny's wife goes to see Biden? And Navalny himself, when he was alive, why did he travel, travel to the United States, meet with politicians? They were bought, they are agents of the State Department. They received money to arrange provocations.

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Yes, no one opposes Putin unless they are paid to do so.

Now, what would US Christians have to do for you to be satisfied with their opposition to gay/trans people?

Nagomirov said:

And why is Trump calling on him to apologize to Christians?

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Trump is running for president and will say whatever will get him more votes. Possibly he's genuinely anti-trans; it's hard to know with Trump. Why is Trump relevant to my moral values as a Christian?

Nagomirov said:

Well, isn't it funny or ridiculous for you? You have transgender people. You write about it as a matter of course, as a familiar phenomenon.

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Transgender people are neither funny nor ridiculous. They're people -- my friends, my fellow parishioners, my students. (And, in fact, I need to step away from this discussion so I can teach a few of them about computer science.)

Nagomirov said:

Называть грех грехом, обличать грех, порицать грех. Посмотрите, сколько ваших сограждан толерантны.

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I don’t post in Russian, no idea what that quote is supposed to be.

Nagomirov said:

And as for Ukraine, they show you only what they want to show you. But they don't show you how Ukrainians themselves bomb the residents of Donbass, how women and children die from their shelling.

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I made no mention of Ukraine.

Nagomirov said:

Have you seen their palaces yourself?

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I've seen the tsarist Constantine Palace outside St. Petersberg.

Lovely UNESCO World Heritage site.

In 1990, the Palace and park complex were placed under the protection of UNESCO. Only 11 years later by declaration of then president of Russia Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Palace and Park were assigned to the presidential administration. ... It is now considered the Presidential Residence in St. Petersburg and has had comparisons made with the White House in America.

Nagomirov said:

Call sin sin, denounce sin, condemn sin.

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We have no shortage of preachers bursting blood vessels screaming about sin.

Nagomirov said:

Look how many of your fellow citizens are tolerant.

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Yep, lots of us. Me included.

Nagomirov said:

“Democracy is in hell, and in heaven is the Kingdom” (St. John of Kronstadt)

Freedom, democracy - the way to perdition, to hell. Libertarianism leads to the secularization of society, to irreligion, apostasy.

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If you have to force people to follow the Faith, then they aren't saved.

If they aren't saved they are going to hell.

If they are going to hell for eternity, then the good they receive in this life is the reward for any good they have done.

There is a balance to be struck between people having a little liberty to learn from, a liberty given to them by God no less because the lessons can lead people to Him, and the best ordering of society.

In America we are trying to find that balance.

But the church is a separate entity from the state. The state is the world, the church is Holy.