" the so-called Russian World ... is grounded in Russian Orthodoxy"

Idolater said:

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his country's war ... stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russians from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine.

The top-ranking priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, meanwhile, has offered a very different reason for the invasion: gay pride parades.
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(The Russian Orthodox Church is one of many ("Eastern") Orthodox Churches.)

In Putin's vision for the world, a medieval narrative resurfaces | CNN

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his country's war on Ukraine, and some are more plausible than others. They include stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russians from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine.

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Idolater said:

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his country's war ... stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russians from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine.

The top-ranking priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, meanwhile, has offered a very different reason for the invasion: gay pride parades.
"

(The Russian Orthodox Church is one of many ("Eastern") Orthodox Churches.)

In Putin's vision for the world, a medieval narrative resurfaces | CNN

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his country's war on Ukraine, and some are more plausible than others. They include stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russians from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine.

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Catholic Crusader said:

This is a great reason why to choose the Catholic Church over the eastern Orthodox. The Orthodox are very nationalistic, divided by national boundaries. There really is no place for that in the Church. God is above such things.

In the Catholic Church nationalities are kept down where they belong, matters of styles of music and art in churches and at Mass, things that the people can relate [to?], but not at the very top.

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Idolater said:

I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
The Eastern Orthodox fall down on the first and third, "marks of the Church". As you say, they are frequently “ nationalistic, divided by national boundaries ”. That's not "Catholic", which means universal and global, a Church without borders. "One"-ness also is violated frequently by the EOs in their constant schisms between different patriarchates. If you take the EO communions as a whole, they're in a virtually constant state of schism with each other.

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