RussiAnVetEraN wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2024 at 9:23pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2024 at 6:21pm:
You appear to think Ukrainian Christians intimidating each other is relevant to whether Russia is persecuting Christians. It isn't. That is how a 5 year old argues. Or someone educated in a communist regime.
You missed a certain nuance that unites these things.
The Ukrainian authorities do not consider the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as their own people. It considers its representatives to be Russian agents.
Therefore, if a certain Orthodox church is destroyed, it may be with the same degree of probability a consequence of the actions of the Ukrainian authorities.
You are still being irrational. A church is not a person. And whether it is considered a person in Ukraine still has nothing to do with whether Russia oppresses Christians. That is how a 5 year old argues. Or someone educated in a communist regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Soviet_Union
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on state interests.[1] Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union.
https://time.com/6969273/russias-war-against-evangelicals/
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is accompanied with a strategic effort to repress, control, and crush religious groups outside of the Kremlin controlled Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church. There are over thirty cases of religious clergy killed and kidnapped. 109 known cases of interrogations, forced expulsions, imprisonments, arrests. 600 houses of worship destroyed. And these are just the confirmed numbers, with the real ones in information blackout of the occupied territories will much likely be higher.