{"id":186289,"date":"2019-04-06T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186289"},"modified":"2019-04-11T06:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T06:15:49","slug":"why-putins-christian-faith-is-most-likely-authentic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186289","title":{"rendered":"Why Putin\u2019s Christian Faith Is Most Likely Authentic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Normally he goes to obscure, rural churches to spend the holidays, wishing to avoid the cameras and distractions of the major cities.”<\/em><\/h4>\n

Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson \u2013 Russia Insider Oct 2018<\/a><\/h1>\n
Vladimir Putin is fairly mute about his own religious views. Being a member of the Communist Party is no evidence of atheism. Its evidence only of conformity. Party membership was essential for having any a career of any substantial kind, especially in the security services.<\/h5>\n
Military and police careers were, as in all societies, attractive to patriots and nationalists, though it had to be a \u201cSoviet\u201d rather than a specifically Russian nationalism. However, he does say that he was secretly baptized by his mother at 18 months in Petersburg at the Cathedral of the Martyrs Alexandria and Antonia of Rome. From this, it is safe to say that Putin was secretly taught the faith from a young age<\/h5>\n

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According to his mother, it was the day of St. Michael and all the Angels, so it had to be November 21st. Putin\u2019s views are, in his own words, to be internal, and never the subject of a show. The cross that his mother gave him at the Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem he wears always. In his house many years ago, a fire broke out from the heating unit of the sauna malfunctioning. Worried that the cross, which he had left near his bed, was gone forever, once of the workmen found it perfectly intact in the midst of all the rubble.<\/h5>\n
Putin stated on Larry King that he sees this event as a miracle and a \u201crevelation.\u201d His personal commitment to Orthodoxy never wavered afterwards. Normally he goes to obscure, rural churches to spend the holidays, wishing to avoid the cameras and distractions of the major cities. His natural constituency is the Orthodox population, who, as polls have stated since the mid 1990s, trust the patriarch more than anyone else in Russia, even more than Putin himself.<\/h5>\n
Unlike Slobodan Milosevic, Putin is clearly comfortable and at home in an Orthodox setting, and his ritual movements are smooth and comfortable, not jerky and artificial as might be expected for a hypocritical display. Milosevic was noted for his awkwardness in Orthodox churches in the 1990s, suggesting he had no experience in them. The only time he seemed slightly stiff is when, upon kissing an icon, the background noise was of hundreds of cameras taking pictures.<\/h5>\n
This is one of the videos in which Putin reveals the origin of his faith.<\/h5>\n