Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova

Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Michael Bourdeaux, The Guardian, Tuesday May 13 2008 ...

>>> Krakhmalnikova became an active democrat, calling on leaders of the 
>>> Orthodox church to repent of its collaboration with the 
>>> authorities (which they never did).

Catawumpus <kimmerian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:

>>      First things first, tho:  has the Orthodox church _stopped_
>> collaborating with the authorities?

John W Kennedy <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> For better or for worse, the Eastern Church has pretty much been in that

> position for the last seventeen centuries.

     That's my impression, too.  Never heard much about Eastern 
Orthodoxy leading the fight against the Czars -- either the 
old ones or their modern successors -- though there may be some
honorable exceptions.  Same thing in the West:  Church and 
Empire have been linked since antiquity, though Christians like
Kierkegaard protest violently.

-- Catawumpus