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2018-01-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin: Communist ideology similar to Christianity, Lenin’s body like saintly relics

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Posted by Fred 2018-01-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 You are way off you Idiot and you know it.
Communism is a millstone you put around your neck.

It is a Godless ideology which is why the Mandate resides with the US instead of your version of Mexico with 10,000 nukes.

Your people told me you knew who I was. And you just blasphemed in a big way.

Posted by newc 2018-01-15 00:40|| 2018-01-15 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Geez, and here I thought Communism was an economic system...like Fascism/Corporatism.

Posted by DooDahMan 2018-01-15 02:25|| 2018-01-15 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess Vlad been on the job too long.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-15 02:34|| 2018-01-15 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Lenin’s body like saintly relics

...In fairness, that was the idea. In the mid-20's, the Revolution hadn't yet completely beaten the faith out of the masses (Lord knows they tried, but a good argument can be made that they never really did) and the leadership knew - though couldn't flatly say it - that there needed to be an icon and relics for Lenin, the same way there were for the Tsars, who always eventually became saints in the Russian Orthodox Church. So ol' Vlad rests there to this day, and likely always will.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-01-15 05:52|| 2018-01-15 05:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I think somewhere in the 20th Century, in less than a hundred years, the Left exceeded the death count of 'Christian' wars that took 1,500 years to accumulate.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-15 08:22|| 2018-01-15 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Communist ideology is very similar to Christianity, in fact: freedom, equality, brotherhood, justice – everything is laid out in the Holy Scripture, it’s all there

You kiss your girlfriend with that lying mouth?

Posted by Frank G 2018-01-15 08:54|| 2018-01-15 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 And Lucifer contended with the archangel Michael over the dead body of Moses. And the archangel Michael spoke to the mighty and powerful fallen archangel Lucifer, "God rebukes you!" and Lucifer then fled.

Satan knows that people will worship the dead body of a leader before they will worship the living God, and that is fine with him, thus God sent for the body of Moses. Communism is a humanistic worship religion of dead or soon to be dead men.

Posted by Cheretle Angeans6218 2018-01-15 09:06|| 2018-01-15 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't Marx say that religion is the opium of the masses? What is Putin smoking?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-01-15 09:32|| 2018-01-15 09:32|| Front Page Top

#9 “Maybe I’ll say something that someone might dislike, but that’s the way I see it,”

Well, if Trump can get away with naming migrant countries of dubious value...

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-15 10:23|| 2018-01-15 10:23|| Front Page Top

#10 For Marx so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Lenin that whosoever believeth in Him would not prosper but have everlasting poverty.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-01-15 10:23|| 2018-01-15 10:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Some Christian theologians have said almost the same thing, and this goes back a century. Dostoyevsky wrote in a similar vein even earlier. Putin may be channeling his Trump-mode.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-01-15 12:12|| 2018-01-15 12:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Seems a bit obvious, and completely cracked. They created a new religion by taking a bit here and there from Christianity and from secular philosophies. The Party played the role of god, and it had devoted followers who literally made it the center of their existence. If you love your family more than the Party, you aren't worthy of the Party. Check.

OTOH, the core of Christianity is about our relationship with a creator God, not "freedom, equality, brotherhood." That's a difference in kind, not degree. Putin was doubtless busy elsewhere the day they taught that.

Posted by james 2018-01-15 13:51|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2018-01-15 13:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Interesting for all those that grew up worshiping Communist idols, to have them compared to their greatest enemy Christianity might just be too much. I hope there is a safe space in the facility lounges across America.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-01-15 15:04|| 2018-01-15 15:04|| Front Page Top

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