The West has, in recent years, bestowed upon itself an immense weight of suffering from financial crisis, lack of ethics, health and a variety of political crisis. Traditional values, respect for the elderly, tradition, the family and faith has been scrapped from the public narrative. Front and center is the atheist materialist world view that deems the physical dimension …
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As Americans turn to Marxism in the hope of a better and more just world, the Soviet experience is worth revisiting. Submerged in atheist state control, the Soviet media propaganda penetrated society, idealizing the Communist teaching that Marxism would bring happiness and peace to all. Central to the Communist ideology was the idea that traditional religion must be exterminated. …
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Reflection on how the spiritual dimension affects our practical lives is more important than ever. There are natural laws, spiritual principles that influence our mental health, whether we believe in them or not. For example, when Jesus said “you will reap what you sow,” he spoke of a law of nature that works regardless of what we think of …
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The French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously stated that morality is our following of a voice of nature within us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Ethics: This voice is often drowned out by passions or pride. Thus, the path to moral redemption becomes to turn back to the intimate moral contact with the heart. This same view penetrates several of the world …
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As the Ukrainian government is now engaged in a militant atheist Soviet Union type of manhunt and persecution against traditional Orthodox Christians who pledge loyalty to Ukraine, this may be a mistake that will impact the Russia-Ukraine war in unexpected ways. Persecuting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine: The forced politization of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine may easily …
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Herland Report: The Christian thinker, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate 1970, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn spoke vividly about the meaning of the repressive atheist experiment in the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn is referred to as the symbol of the contemporary Orthodox Christian revival in Russia, as he experienced more than sixty years of suffering under the harsh Soviet regime and came out undefeated …
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Herland Report: Islamic Religious Syncretism: Not only does Islam claim Abraham, Moses, and Jesus; it apparently claims post biblical figures, such as Saint George, as well. So states a recent article on My London, the real point of which is apparently to assert Christian and Muslim “commonalities.” Thus, we learn that “on St George’s Day, which in Eastern Christianity is marked on May …
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Herland Report: Den ortodokse kirke: Hvordan klarte den Den russisk ortodokse kirken å overleve mer enn 70 år med massiv undertrykkelse? Av alle religioner i det gamle russiske riket kom ingen til å bli utsatt for en slik forfølgelse som den Russisk ortodokse kirke etter kommunistenes maktovertakelse. Professor Paul Froese illustrerer poenget med antall stengte kirker i Russland i 1940; …
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Russia demonstrates faith in God: Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to parliament a number of proposed constitutional changes, including amendments that mention God and stipulate that marriage is a union of a man and woman. Russian senators overwhelmingly back the constitutional changes, reports Daily Mirror. Russia decides to hold onto God, heterosexual marriage, and Putin, writes Paul C. …
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Herland Report: Vatican News recently announced Pope Francis’ upcoming “Apostolic Journey to Morocco, whose theme is hope.” Before spending March 30-31 in Morocco, Francis is also scheduled to visit the United Arab Emirates. “Pope Francis will meet the leader of Moroccan Muslims,” Vatican Newscontinues, “800 years after the meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil of Egypt.” Francis has been …
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