Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that there is no need to stir up fear around nuclear weapons, as Christians are not afraid of the end of the world.

Kirill added that this “does not mean that we should sit by idly”.

“On the contrary, our earthly mission is to be the Lord’s soldiers … to resist evil and defend high moral ideals. This is the goal setting in Russia,” he said.

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          Perhaps normal “interpretation”, but a spectacular misinterpretation of what he meant…

          What you eat is the body/living-substance of LivingSpirit

          What you drink is the “blood”/essence of LivingSpirit

          ALL living-food is sacred.

          He was telling people to focus on the prana they were eating/drinking, but in an Abrahamic-religion translation of it, & we’ve only got a distorted rendition of it to go from, too.

          Try comparing it with what the Hopi say, & see how it’s the same thing, just in differen lingo…

          ( & yes, the way the Christian bible distorts things sometimes makes it nearly-impossible to see-through-the-cultural-gunk,

          but once cracked-open, truth can be remarkably resilient )


          ( a completely-unrelated brilliant-insight in their bible is in Rev:

          the John who wrote Rev was given the Book of Truth to eat…

          in his mouth, syrupy-sweet…

          in his belly, bitter…

          Superficial-symbolic-truth is syrupy-sweet.

          Digested-truth, experience-induced-understanding-that-goes-right-through, is bitter.

          Perfectly nailed the diff between superficial-symbolic-“truth” and bitter-all-context-considered-all-confounding-factors-too-Truth.

          I’ve never seen any Christian identifying that profound psychological-truth, as what it is: they just memorize stuff by rote, not really-understand it?

          shruggeth )

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          Totally original idea man, imagine if Netflix made a show showing the parallels of vampires and Catholics.

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        All of the abrahamic religions are. It could probably be argued that Hinduism is as well, at least historically, as far as the caste system basis and such. Not sure what modern Hindu beliefs are whatsoever tho.