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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's Sunday. And Putin destroyed 113 Ukrainian churches.
And you can bet they were beautiful.
"Zelensky: 113 Ukrainian churches damaged, destroyed by Russian shelling"
https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-113-ukrainian-churches-damaged-003853346.html
tirebiter
(2,538 posts)Cant quite pin it down.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,250 posts)Churches, residences, hospitals, schools, grain storage facilities...
rubbersole
(6,699 posts)Plain and simple. Oil and gas rich, breadbasket of Europe.
sprinkleeninow
(20,250 posts)'Sins' that clamor unto Heaven.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,492 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)At the expense of Ukrainian lives and infrastructure.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)The Eastern Orthodox church has power factions in Moscow and Kyiv, each claiming authority over the entire church, which is big in Eastern Europe and Russia. It started from the church in old Constantinople, now Istanbul since Turkey was taken by the Ottoman muslims back in the 15th Century. The power center of the church moved North and East to Kyiv and thence to Moscow with the nationalist currents of history.
I don't for a minute think Putin has any religious feelings or sensibilities, but the churches have aligned themselves with the secular governments in this struggle and the governments tend to exploit that. Religious involvement generally contributes to the ugliness of warfare. Nothing accelerates fanaticism like "God is on our side."
This war has a medieval feel to it, because part of it has a medieval, religious war feel to it from the 16th-17th Centuries in Western and Central Europe.