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40. I'd have to agree.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Reply #39)

Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:42 PM

Apr 2012

The watch is insane for him to own with so many believers starving and suffering and so many churches still needing to be rebuilt and fixed up.

St. Nicholas would smack him upside the head for the watch. Vestments are one thing; the watch is another.

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Russian Orthodox Church organises against Pussy Riot punks [View all] Lars77 Apr 2012 OP

I was Born into this Religion fascisthunter Apr 2012 #1

Me too. But mom warned us that the priests were hypocrites, like in all religions. SunSeeker Apr 2012 #4

You mention that whathehell Apr 2012 #6

Same idea as the hijab: cover your shameful womanly heads. SunSeeker Apr 2012 #8

I'm not sure I agree...Otherwise men would be whathehell Apr 2012 #10

All three of those religions subjugate women. nt SunSeeker Apr 2012 #14

Do you know of any religion -- or society -- that does not subjugate women? whathehell Apr 2012 #15

I wish I did. nt SunSeeker Apr 2012 #16

Right... whathehell Apr 2012 #19

Communism? At least in theory. n/t Lars77 Apr 2012 #17

"In theory", would be the operative phrase. whathehell Apr 2012 #18

Fair enough since you were asking for a religion or society Lars77 Apr 2012 #21

Yeah, well.. whathehell Apr 2012 #22

Not really. I can see where you're getting that, but it's not quite right. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #37

Then why no covering for men? SunSeeker Apr 2012 #41

Short answer: tradition. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #42

Actually, it's very much like the hijab. When I was in Catholic school we were Cleita Apr 2012 #24

I don't think so. I went to Catholic School for twelve years whathehell Apr 2012 #26

She quoted something from St. Paul. Don't ask me which epistle. I'm too lazy to look it up. n/t Cleita Apr 2012 #27

Never heard of it, whathehell Apr 2012 #30

Don't accept it. It's something that's really not important for me to look up Cleita Apr 2012 #31

I don't and no, women don't cover their heads anymore in church. whathehell Apr 2012 #34

Seven years for protesting the Orthodox Church's support for Putin Jack Rabbit Apr 2012 #2

7 years for "hooliganism" Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2012 #9

Was there a church under Stailin? Confusious Apr 2012 #11

Officially and rhetorically it was gone, but in reality Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2012 #12

Stalin brought back the patriarch, actually. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #38

Authoritarian control Jack Rabbit Apr 2012 #13

Patriarch Kyril is no Alexii, that's for sure. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #3

Kirill has also been accused of being in bed with the KGB during Soviet days RZM Apr 2012 #5

That's what I'd heard about Patriarch Kyril. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #35

Patriarch Kyri,I think he's into bling! yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2012 #25

We're Orthodox. We all are. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #36

Russia's patriarch admits bling watch cover-up! yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2012 #39

I'd have to agree. knitter4democracy Apr 2012 #40

A K/R for "Church + State = Oppression". Dawson Leery Apr 2012 #7

whaddyatalk: a k/r for the OP title! FraDon Apr 2012 #20

For the word "pussy"?...It puts a nice, sexist "spin" on things? whathehell Apr 2012 #23

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is th seabeyond Apr 2012 #28

Touche! whathehell Apr 2012 #29

Or as I like to call them, "cupcakes". Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #33

The Church is right, the fornicating punks should keep their pants on Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #32