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ALEKSANDR DVORKIN'S SECULAR RUSSIAN INQUISITION LARGELY MODELS WHAT SOME IN THE U.S., SUCH AS CHIP BERLET, WANT FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD
Aleksandr Dvorkin, a professor and head of the Church History department (the exact department name is unclear to me as of the time of this entry) at St. Tikhon Orthodox University in Moscow since 1995, is pushing Russian legislation to ban proselytizing on the supposed territory of another and established religion.
This draft defines what correct missionary activities are. For example it forbids missionary activity on the territory of some other faith or other religious organization....
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-01-26/religi ous-cults-russia-law.html
If his view prevails, the Russian Orthodox Church (or those who seek to use it for crass purposes) will lay claim to established territory and it could end up becoming the one and only, de facto, established and protected religion of Russia. All the reasons the United States does not have such an arrangement could then come to prevail in Russia.
"RUSSIA: A new 'Inquisition'," by Geraldine Fagan. Forum 18. May 26, 2009. [apparently reprinted by WorldWide Religious News.] That article helps inform.
Aleksandr Dvorkin: The Chip Berlet of Russia
Right now, I liken this Aleksandr Dvorkin as the Chip Berlet of Russia. They wouldn't see exactly eye-to-eye I more than suspect, but their call for the secular state to coerce those they define as dangerous extremists is nearly identical. I am an extremist. I am for extreme goodness. That's good, not bad or dangerous. Jesus was a radical extremist. He was for radical (root) change to make the whole tree (each of us and all of us together) good. That's good, not bad or dangerous except to those who put evil for good and bitter for sweet.
Jesus was non-coercive to all outside the faith: A voluntary faith
As a professing Christian and if one doesn't know the answer is inherent within Christianity and the, then one is to ask, seek, and knock. The only coercion Jesus Christ used was within the voluntary spaces. No one was forced into the Temple he cleaned. No one was forced to follow him. Concerning other religions, he simply spoke and did his harmless and actually beneficial good deeds and left the rest to God's will. The blind follow the blind into the ditch of their own making. Jesus doesn't shove them into a ditch or dig one for them. They ignore him.
The paradox of God supposedly doing evil versus Satan who is evil
This can raise many supposed unsolvable paradoxes concerning the true nature of God versus Satan, but so be it. All questions can be and should be reconciled, and such reconciliation ought to be understood as being as rational as rational can be. This is a topic the scope of which is deep and likewise requires asking, seeking, and knocking. It is not handed to disbelievers on a silver platter or rather force fed them. It is a filtering process where we are truly free to overcome the negative conditioning of the naysayers from the proverbial beginning.
Russian Orthodox Church: Don't be hypocritical and anti-Christ
The Russian Orthodox Church in spirit and letter should be against this latest iteration of this legislation with its coercive "religious" intent. If the cults being defined as predatory-missionary and destructive are not allowed to speak outside the Orthodox Church by that church or the secular state that church supports, that Orthodox Church is not following Jesus and is therefore hypocritical and anti-Christ in that regard.
Don't be Satan
If the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Moonies (Unification Church), and Scientologists are preaching falsehood (and as a Christian, I say they are), then point out those falsehoods and do what Jesus did and still does, which was and is to let souls be filtered according to their hearts and not by the force of the secular state that is inherently Satanic.
All religions are cults; secularism is a cult of secularism
The underlying trick here is the supposed protection the legislation would provide to the naive and gullible; however, the legislation is coercive and favors "established" religions (all cults; Jesus established a cult – a cult to be good) that historically and arguably have been and can again become the instruments of predatory destruction every bit as much as those other "cults" it, or it's supporters or proxies of some aspects of that church, claims or claim to be suppressing for good reason.
If you use "cult" as a pejorative, it doesn't mean that I have to follow you in doing that. I don't.
Bring forth the Christian Commons or be a hypocrite
What this legislation does is prevent voluntary betterment. The Russian Orthodox Church does not preach or carry out the call of Jesus (his "commandments"). They have never brought the Christian Commons concept to fruition even after many, many centuries. They don't call for it even yet, though I've put it out there in plain view and parts of that church are aware of it and could readily embrace and support it. Opposed to the Christian Commons, this legislation seeks to lock in a lower status quo and to prevent that Russian Orthodox Church from leaking membership to better theology and a better way of life, even the best way.
The Zionist mentality of the abused becoming excused abuser will end
It is hypocritical legislation. Russia is not the Orthodox Church or the whole Church or part of that body. Russia has persecuted the Russian Orthodox in the past, yet this legislation sees the persecuted becoming the persecutor again. It reminds one of the Zionists in Israel persecuting out of supposed fear of again being persecuted.
It is not Christian. Immediately and in no uncertain terms, the Russian Orthodox Church should distance itself from this twisted legislation and all further iterations of it.
Heathens are not part of the body of Christ
I don't know who is in charge of the St. Tikhon Orthodox University in Moscow, but Aleksandr Dvorkin has no business speaking anti-Christ precepts from a Christian university. I don't seek his harm. If he wants to preach anti-Christ percepts, let him do it from outside a professed Christian organization and institution. He is speaking as a heathen even if he doesn't realize it and even if he believes he has only good intentions.
Russian Orthodox Church congregationalism
Let me add that I agree with the congregational approach of the Russian Orthodox Church over the Roman Catholic practice that excludes the "laity." The congregational approach of the Russian Orthodox Church has the whole membership choosing its leadership. The only thing lacking is unanimity from the outset. This is a paradox for them. It must be remembered that the Russian Orthodox Church was the church of the Tsars. That was their original error, just as with Rome and Constantine I, etc.
Plainly and Simply, L. Ron Hubbard was, and Scientology is, Satanic
L. Ron Hubbard was a mess. He was a Satanist who practiced all sorts of iniquitous behaviors. It's all documented. However, the way to end the destruction is by turning to it's opposite. Yes, its opposite is its destruction, but it's harmless and more so beneficial and bountiful. That's all.
Scientologists are not freed by truth in Scientology. They are tricked into iniquitous so-called liberties. This does not mean that those who go into it know they are going into something that has at its very essence, evil. L. Ron Hubbard was defiled and spread it. He created an institution to continue that. It's true.
Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, and all others should get out of it. Why are they following someone who was so immersed in anti-Christ things and who never repented of any of it? Scientology is unwholesome. Get out of it.
I don't call the secular state to ban Scientology or any of the other groups. I call for the state not to ban me. I call for all states to let me speak; and if my views are not adopted by the people, so be it. Let all speak outside their organizations. Let them convince hearts, minds, and souls (or whatever they believe) as to which way is best. Stop all evil coercion of evil. You see, that way I am right.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.