On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 19:32:17 +1100 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
To my never-taught-history western schooled brain cell
You keep talking about russia as if it was not 'western'. As I previously noted, russia is fully western. Russia is a poster child for totalitarianism, and thus fully western. And I have to ask (so that john is happy) what the fuck have some of the most totalitarian criminals on the planet, namely the fucking russian monarchy and fucking russian church got to do with any libertarian value AT ALL?
(which fires but occasionally, which even that some doubt) the following is simply interesting.
Trigger warning, the interview is with a historian who has strong Orthodox Christian beliefs and comes across as proselytizing at times, but the depth of anecdotes may be considered worthwhile, even for existentialists among us - bloody motley lot we all are :D
PS, on pasting in the title and byline, I note that the interview is not an interview, but is a series of written 'answers' to reader questions, by one Father Andrew Phillips, so I should be worried if he were not staunch in his Christianity :) :)
It's quite a long read...
Everything You Know About The Last Russian Tsar Is a Massive Lie. Here’s The Truth "These members of the upper classes (and not all were traitors) were sponsored from the beginning by the West. The West considered that once its values of parliamentary democracy, republicanism or constitutional monarchy were introduced into Russia, it would become just another bourgeois Western country." Father Andrew Phillips (Orthodox England) Father Andrew Phillips, is a long-serving priest in the ROCOR Orthodox church in Essex, UK. http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/the-glimmer-of-light-on-the-road-ah... In this January 2013 article, he answers readers’ questions about the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, debunking decades of deliberate, slanderous lies coming from the media, academia, and governments of the UK, Germany, and America, but mostly from the UK.