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Walleye
(31,022 posts)Ha!
Man, this is fucking embarrassing.
Initech
(100,075 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)For those who don't know what the hell we're talking about.....
Walleye
(31,022 posts)ck4829
(35,076 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,194 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)they supported Donald Trump in the last two presidential elections.
Dirty Donny blocked Ukrainian weapons shipments and left them vulnerable to the Russian invaders.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)PSPS
(13,597 posts)theophilus
(3,750 posts)U.S. evangelical types tend to be tainted by the teachings of non-Christians and come off as patriarchal dipshits. U.S. religious types could learn a lot from Ukrainian Christians, imo. That's all I have to say about that.
Mariana
(14,857 posts)Which non-Christians are those, exactly?
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)Mariana
(14,857 posts)Let's not pretend that targeting the most vulnerable for proselytization is some new tactic that Christians never tried until recently.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I hope these new arrivals don't ever have to hear how the teachings of Christ have been restyled to serve the Koch-Tucker-Bannon types.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Aristus
(66,352 posts)Because they haven't been "saved".
sarisataka
(18,654 posts)Do they believe most Ukrainians follow?
🤔
2naSalit
(86,609 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)The Russian Orthodox prelate Patriarch Kirill who is a ok with this. Now that would be an act that Christ would stand behind.
Dumb asses.
Celerity
(43,357 posts)pandr32
(11,583 posts)MenloParque
(512 posts)I wouldnt doubt some brainwashing going on within these arrangements. Always ulterior motives with these people.
Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)Why do we all have to be subjected to ugly Americans!
3catwoman3
(23,985 posts)These holier-than-thou soul savers can fuck right off.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Reminds of how the Anglicans treated the Catholics during the Irish potato famine.
Just open your hearts and wallets. Others will see Jesus in your actions.
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)Apparently not in the Ukraine.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Leave them alone!
PatSeg
(47,430 posts)Jesus didn't have a very high opinion of people like that.
Reader Rabbit
(2,624 posts)under the Geneva Conventions.
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)bif
(22,702 posts)Absolutely pathetic.
Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)Religious zealots forgotten that?
Thats what I say to anyone who spouts their beliefs.
Those who came to America wanted the latter as much as the former.
Dickwads.
Initech
(100,075 posts)Silent3
(15,212 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)White kids for evangelicals to adopt. The parents will see themselves as rescuers, and expect those children to be grateful. The Christains love a good disaster to round up "orphans."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-the-heck-is-u-s-extremist-matt-shea-doing-in-poland-with-60-ukrainian-kids/ar-AAVcygv
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)How much did they pay to go over there and get in the way?
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)They should be getting some throat punches
I hate people trying to preach to me more than I hate scammers trying to help me renew my cars extended warranty.
Deep State Witch
(10,426 posts)That the Ukrainians have been Christian since 988 CE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus
The Primary Chronicle reports that, in the year 986, Vladimir met with representatives from several religions. The result is amusingly described in the following apocryphal anecdote. Upon the meeting with Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga, Vladimir found their religion unsuitable due to its requirement to circumcise and taboos against alcoholic beverages and pork; supposedly, Vladimir said on that occasion: "Drinking is the joy of the Rus." He also consulted with Jewish envoys (who may or may not have been Khazars), questioned them about Judaism but ultimately rejected it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God.
In the year 987, as the result of a consultation with his boyars, Vladimir sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. Of the Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga the envoys reported there is no joy among them; only sorrow and a great stench. In the gloomy churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty; but at Hagia Sophia, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: "We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth," they reported, "nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it."
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)These people are horrible to prey on their vulnerability. Ugh! They make me sick!