Russia`s leader has been demonised more than any national leader since Adolf Hitler. Does he deserve it? Is he the monster the main stream media paints him to be? or is he a devout christian man trying to save his country from a corrupt decadent west?
Putin continuously makes it clear he considers Russia as a Christian country. In 2014 he called for the restoration of the Kremlin`s historic Chudov ("of the Miracle") and Voznesensky(Ascension) monasteries both of which were destroyed by the Bolsheviks. He also wants another church destroyed by the Bolsheviks to be rebuilt in the Kremlin.
The Kremlin is both the political and historic centre not just of Moscow but of Russia. By calling for the restoration of these christian buildings Putin repudiated the Soviet legacy with its atheist ideology and its record of anti-Christianity and reaffirms orthodoxy as the heart of Russian culture.
A key element of Putin`s worldview is not just his commitment to the Russian
Orthodox church as an institution, but also his admiration for three 19th and 20th century Russian christian philosophers----Nickolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov and Ivan IIyin all of whom he often quotes in his speeches. He has encouraged Russian governors to read these works in their holidays. Studying the causes of Russia`s 20th century tragedy IIyin wrote:
"the Russian revolution is a reflection of the religious crisis we are living through now, an attempt to establish a anti- Christian public and state system( the appointment of a Satanist to the White House in the US is a case in point----TJ) thought up by Friedrich Nietzsche and economically and politically realized by Karl Marx. This anti Christian virus was exported to Russia from the West... losing our bond with God and the Christian tradition, mankind has become morally blind and gripped by materialism, irrationalism and nihilism". In the view of IIyin the way to overcome this global moral crisis is for people to return to "eternal moral values" which he defined as "faith, love, freedom, conscience, family, motherland and nation" but above all "faith and love"
Pastor Chuck Baldwin is a Baptist pastor in Montana US.
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