Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova

On May 16, 3:29=A0am, Catawumpus <kimmer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> ++ <fri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>
> > WEll, there's bad and then there is anti-Christian, i.e. evil. =A0So,
yo=
u
> > do see a fight against the Mongols, later a large effort against the
> > Ottomans and other Islamic invaders, but nothing large against
serfdome
> > outside some intellectuals and writers.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0What's missing, so far as I know, is any resistance by the
> Eastern Orthodox church to the Czars or the rulers who've
> followed them, allowing for individual exceptions. =A0Same in the
> West, where the link between Church and Empire dates to
> Constantine, though some Christians have strongly protested the
> relation****p.
>
> -- Catawumpus

Is there a subtext here? Having stated the "problem", do you wish to
propose a "solution"? Quakerism? Evangelical Protestantism?

Don't forget that throughout the Soviet era, there were always
Orthodox Christians in active resistance who wor****pped "in the
catacombs". The phenomenon has evolved since 1989, but such people are
still present and to some extent they form the "conscience" of the ROC.