Metropolitan Pavel is forced to sign a search warrant allowing Ukrainian security forces to search a thousand year-old Monastery in Kiev<\/p>\n
I was born in 1955, nine years after the start of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. One of the constant refrains from that era was the claim that the Soviets represented \u201cgodless\u201d communism. The false belief continues to frame how most Americans view modern Russia \u2014 i.e., it is a godless country. But that is a lie. The Russia of Vladimir Putin is a Christian nation, but respects and embraces its Muslim citizens.<\/p>\n
I believe that one of the unstated reasons the West hates Russia is because the majority of the Russian people strongly embrace Eastern Orthodox theology. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which is squishy on the issue of the LBGTQ agenda and tarnished by a legion of pedophile Priests, the Eastern Orthodox Christians insist that God created man and woman and that homosexuality is a sin.<\/p>\n
And the Eastern Orthodox Church is under an unrelenting attack by the regime of Vladimir Zelensky. For example, the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Metropolitan Pavlo, was arrested and confined to his residence for two months by a Ukrainian court after Ukraine\u2019s top security agency SBU raided the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in March.<\/p>\n