I am an atheist who has watched the world for 63 years now, and learned that religion corrupts everything that is good in humanity because it dares to put itself above humanity, yet cannot show evidence that it is anything but man made.
I was impressed by the beautiful, colourful buildings and even more by you jumping into that freezing water to perform the ritual. Could you show us more of the architecture? It all looks so lovely!
I have been traveling into Russia since the late 1990s and I've gone along with some of the women in my family and female friends of theirs when visiting some of my distant relatives and my wife's family. I have done this until the start of the SMO when a death threat was sent to our family in the u.s. and the fact that my son has duel citizenship and I did not want any chance of Russian military draft, I stayed with him in the States. Of course women did the cold water ritual in a small village outside the city my wife grew up in, but none of the guys came along. Religion is not practiced as widespread outside of certain rituals where military personnel would be rebuked if they didn't comply, same as the u.s. military with it's fake religiosity, and where wife's or grandparents pressure people to go. It is nice to see Russia progressing internally until Midan happened. I remember President Putin clapping when 2 female members of an all female rock band played in Moscow, along with military leaders and leading members of the Duma, when these 2 females locked lips onstage at the end as the all were taking bows and waving to the audience. Russia didn't have so many problems with gay people until they started using them as a scapegoat for what they didn't like about how the West was treating them. Gay people have the least power of anyone in the west, but they are the easiest to target because they don't control anything in government (that's rich people and big corporations) nor do they control anything in american society (that's rich people and big corporations). And I know plenty of Russians who think their church makes as much sense as the catholic church and all other churches around the world that are filled with hypocrites and child molesters. Russia has a lot going for it, but if it keeps going down a road where religion continues to dictate national laws, then it won't take long before the corrupt church, and the Orthodox Church is as corrupt as any other sect of religion, except Satanist, who are the only Church known not to be corrupt. Russia will allow it's religion to tear it people apart, because it believes that religion, though it may tolerate others, it better than all others.......the first step into corruption. Look at the baltics, Hungary, Slovakia, eu, Scandinavia, all countries corrupt beyond help. And all fascist.
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I am an atheist who has watched the world for 63 years now, and learned that religion corrupts everything that is good in humanity because it dares to put itself above humanity, yet cannot show evidence that it is anything but man made.
Awesome, thank you.
I was impressed by the beautiful, colourful buildings and even more by you jumping into that freezing water to perform the ritual. Could you show us more of the architecture? It all looks so lovely!
You are on the right side of history
Blessed epiphany to my Russian orthodox brothers and sisters
I have been traveling into Russia since the late 1990s and I've gone along with some of the women in my family and female friends of theirs when visiting some of my distant relatives and my wife's family. I have done this until the start of the SMO when a death threat was sent to our family in the u.s. and the fact that my son has duel citizenship and I did not want any chance of Russian military draft, I stayed with him in the States. Of course women did the cold water ritual in a small village outside the city my wife grew up in, but none of the guys came along. Religion is not practiced as widespread outside of certain rituals where military personnel would be rebuked if they didn't comply, same as the u.s. military with it's fake religiosity, and where wife's or grandparents pressure people to go. It is nice to see Russia progressing internally until Midan happened. I remember President Putin clapping when 2 female members of an all female rock band played in Moscow, along with military leaders and leading members of the Duma, when these 2 females locked lips onstage at the end as the all were taking bows and waving to the audience. Russia didn't have so many problems with gay people until they started using them as a scapegoat for what they didn't like about how the West was treating them. Gay people have the least power of anyone in the west, but they are the easiest to target because they don't control anything in government (that's rich people and big corporations) nor do they control anything in american society (that's rich people and big corporations). And I know plenty of Russians who think their church makes as much sense as the catholic church and all other churches around the world that are filled with hypocrites and child molesters. Russia has a lot going for it, but if it keeps going down a road where religion continues to dictate national laws, then it won't take long before the corrupt church, and the Orthodox Church is as corrupt as any other sect of religion, except Satanist, who are the only Church known not to be corrupt. Russia will allow it's religion to tear it people apart, because it believes that religion, though it may tolerate others, it better than all others.......the first step into corruption. Look at the baltics, Hungary, Slovakia, eu, Scandinavia, all countries corrupt beyond help. And all fascist.