• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      to be fair here banning the Russian church for racial reasons is in fact repressive and shitty but also fuck Tucker Carlson

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It kind of is as it is arresting and punishing people for their subtype of Christian faith. You can't just expect Russian orthodoxes to switch church to another one anymore than the British could just expect the Irish to switch from Catholicism to Protestantism

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I mean the books of paul do kind of say that Christianity is one body so yeah it kind of is.

              Christianity true to form decided to not listen to the instruction to no longer treat people differently based on race due to 16th century fears that not being racist would mean they couldn't steal from and enslave black people

              • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                It's not just Christians. Looking at you, Israelis treating black Jews like shit.

          • kristina [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Orthodox Christianity is fuckin whack and weird anyways with how the Patriarchs interfere with country politics. We need to resurrect Lenin to sort the whole thing out :lenin-crush-capitalism:

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              In this case they got in trouble with the Ukrainian government for trying to interfere against anti-russian racism so they managed to be the cool ones here if only because the other guys were nazis

          • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            This actually kind of happened in this case though. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate basically collapsed with the war, and people just moved to the Ukrainian Patriarchate. Same church essentially, just different leadership. The UOC-MP was very small, immediately prior to being banned.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah but to continue with the Irish Catholicism/Protestantism example, it's not a problem if Irish people decide to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism of their own accord, but it's definitely fucked up to target Irish Catholic churches.

              • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                Yeah, forcing people to switch to the Nazi-regime-preferred branch of the church is still pretty fucked even if it doesn't impact as many people as you might expect. I wouldn't say it's quite as severe as the Catholic/Protestant example because it's still the same church with the same doctrine but different leadership, but yeah still fucked up and wrong.

                I just saw some posts back during the banning, referring to the UOC-MP as the "largest church in Ukraine" which was pretty inaccurate.