Christianity the most persecuted religion in the world - including in Europe

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hilarious Russia is reporting this as they are sponsoring some of it: https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war

Give it a rest.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hilarious Russia is reporting this as they are sponsoring some of it: https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war

Give it a rest.

It's a real thing that's hardly getting enough attention (VICE and some emergent blogs are the only places I've seen it mentioned.)

I know, and if you weren't creepily obsessed with hating Russia I'd actually be inclined to discuss it with you.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hilarious Russia is reporting this as they are sponsoring some of it: https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war

Give it a rest.

Well, Russian government is fundamentally hostile to most branches of Christianity. Why should it be given a rest?

Because it's not good for BRTD to be so obsessed with hating a country he has no connections to, or for the forum to have this one poster who's so uniquely obsessed with hating said country. If literally any other poster had been the one to bring this up I wouldn't have said that.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hilarious Russia is reporting this as they are sponsoring some of it: https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war

Give it a rest.

Well, Russian government is fundamentally hostile to most branches of Christianity. Why should it be given a rest?

Because it's not good for BRTD to be so obsessed with hating a country he has no connections to, or for the forum to have this one poster who's so uniquely obsessed with hating said country. If literally any other poster had been the one to bring this up I wouldn't have said that.

Ok. Consider that I am the one who brought it up. Do I have the requisite connection?

Please don't be aggro. I didn't say that I thought one needed "a connection" to bring this up. My issue is with BRTD specifically.

Obviously the Putin regime's persecution of non-Orthodox Christians and of anybody else who doesn't fit in its deranged Pochvennichestvo-for-the-cheap-seats concept of Holy Orthodox Russia is absolutely disgusting and I would never claim otherwise. I apologize if I gave off the impression of seeking to minimize it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hilarious Russia is reporting this as they are sponsoring some of it: https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war

Give it a rest.

Well, Russian government is fundamentally hostile to most branches of Christianity. Why should it be given a rest?

Because it's not good for BRTD to be so obsessed with hating a country he has no connections to, or for the forum to have this one poster who's so uniquely obsessed with hating said country. If literally any other poster had been the one to bring this up I wouldn't have said that.

Ok. Consider that I am the one who brought it up. Do I have the requisite connection?

Please don't be aggro. I didn't say that I thought one needed "a connection" to bring this up. My issue is with BRTD specifically.

Obviously the Putin regime's persecution of non-Orthodox Christians and of anybody else who doesn't fit in its deranged Pochvennichestvo-for-the-cheap-seats concept of Holy Orthodox Russia is absolutely disgusting and I would never claim otherwise. I apologize if I gave off the impression of seeking to minimize it.

So, what is the problem with BRTD?

...that he's frothingly, dyspeptically obsessed with reflexively hating all things Russian regardless of degree or existence of relationship with the current or any former regime?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hilarious Russia is reporting this as they are sponsoring some of it: https://news.vice.com/video/secret-protestant-churches-in-donetsk-ukraines-religious-war

Give it a rest.

Well, Russian government is fundamentally hostile to most branches of Christianity. Why should it be given a rest?

Because it's not good for BRTD to be so obsessed with hating a country he has no connections to, or for the forum to have this one poster who's so uniquely obsessed with hating said country. If literally any other poster had been the one to bring this up I wouldn't have said that.

Ok. Consider that I am the one who brought it up. Do I have the requisite connection?

Please don't be aggro. I didn't say that I thought one needed "a connection" to bring this up. My issue is with BRTD specifically.

Obviously the Putin regime's persecution of non-Orthodox Christians and of anybody else who doesn't fit in its deranged Pochvennichestvo-for-the-cheap-seats concept of Holy Orthodox Russia is absolutely disgusting and I would never claim otherwise. I apologize if I gave off the impression of seeking to minimize it.

So, what is the problem with BRTD?

...that he's frothingly, dyspeptically obsessed with reflexively hating all things Russian regardless of degree or existence of relationship with the current or any former regime?

He is not. There is an obvious degree of sarcasm there.

Evidently it's not obvious, in view of BRTD's obsessive thought patterns in general and his habit of developing rationally based but frighteningly excessive animosities in particular, but I hope you're right.