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Politics : The Clown-Free Bible Study Zone
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From: S. maltophilia4/14/2024 9:22:23 PM
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A powerful, if unintentional, argument for the separation of church and state.

.....archbishop may be right about the Moscow Patriarchate: that it’s not a Church, not in the sense that we have long accepted in the West. That said, it’s not just an arm of the Kremlin. It is something more dangerous, a two-headed beast that can summon ancient religious loyalty even as it draws on all the resources of a 21st-century police state: internet trolls, abundant cash, the tacit threat of violence. Perhaps the most troubling possibility is that Kirill’s Church, with its canny blend of politics and faith, turns out to be better adapted to survival in our century than mainstream Churches are.

There are certainly dissenters from Kirill’s jingoistic line among the 40,000......

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