Re: The Awesomesauce with Religion
Reply #437 –
All you have done there is in a sense complimented what I have already stated. So nothing surprising or new and generally there has been an awareness of the persecution of the Orthodox. Stalin had little interest in religion before he started his apprenticeship training to be a mass murderer although his mother had wanted him when grown up to be a priest. Visiting a church during the war was a moment of doubt and passing weakness on his part whilst for a while taking the pogroms on the church aside for some odd reasoning on his mind re the war effort. In nearer the end period of the USSR a Pastor Vims of the Baptist Church there was imprisoned for trying to advance Christianity.
A few decades ago there was a surprising incident in a provincial town when a new public building was being opened. The politicals were there on the platform making speeches and some voices chorused over the crowd for the local Baptist pastor to be allowed to say something as it was Easter.At first the party people ignored them then a Communist leader sneered and mocked telling the organisers of the event to let the fool up so they could have a laugh. So up he came to the platform and shouted "Christ is risen" and a whole sizeable portion of the crowd as old tradition shouted back "Christ is risen indeed."
Nowadays with the collapse of the Soviet dictatorship and since that event the Orthodox Church got vast numbers of churches back. Some had been museums, clubs or stores it places a centre place in public affairs, military chaplains, etc, and is in the parliament too. Change days.