- 29 Mar 2018 02:56
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Just because SolarCross is exaggerating it does not mean that his argument is without merit or that he is trolling. Any regular Old Calendarist Orthodox Christian will tell you point blank that "Communism is satanic" as it seeks to eradicate religion and will immediately point you to the Order of Militant Atheists in the Soviet Union who:
It goes without question that a thread like this one would attract this argument. A sufficient argument for the reconciliation of 2 ideologies that are explicitly antagonistic to each other has not been provided. .ie How will a Christian communist prevent the politburo from eradicating Christianity when such an eradication is on the mission statement of communism? It's a fair question and one that the OP certainly expected.
The Orthodox church suffered terribly in the 1930s, and many of its members were killed or sent to labor camps. Between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to fewer than 500. The watershed year was 1929, when Soviet policy put much new legislation in place that formed the basis for the harsh anti-religious persecution in the 1930s.
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During the purges of 1937 and 1938, church documents record that 168,300 Russian Orthodox clergy were arrested. Of these, over 100,000 were shot.[76] Many thousands of victims of persecution became recognized in a special canon of saints known as the "new martyrs and confessors of Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecuti ... viet_Union
It goes without question that a thread like this one would attract this argument. A sufficient argument for the reconciliation of 2 ideologies that are explicitly antagonistic to each other has not been provided. .ie How will a Christian communist prevent the politburo from eradicating Christianity when such an eradication is on the mission statement of communism? It's a fair question and one that the OP certainly expected.
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...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...