Moscow-led church in Ukraine refuses to bury boy from Kiev branch - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]The death of a baby crushed by a drunk man who committed suicide by jumping out of an eighth-floor apartment in Ukraine has exposed the religious divide in the Orthodox Christian country. A Moscow-led church in the central city of Zaporizhia [B]refused to bury the one-year-old boy killed on New Year’s Eve because he was christened by a rival church overseen by Kiev.[/B] Local media reported that the boy’s bereaved father punched the priest in anger in an incident that has prompted renewed acrimony between the two branches of Ukraine’s main faith. --- [B]“The priest said our baby was unchristened and our church was a sham,”[/B] Polishchuk told the local news site Forpost. “My wife cried and threw herself before him on her knees, but this did not help.”[/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/05/moscow-led-church-in-ukraine-refuses-to-bury-boy-from-kiev-church[/url]

[QUOTE] Local media reported that the boy’s bereaved father punched the priest in anger in an incident that has prompted renewed acrimony between the two branches of Ukraine’s main faith.[/QUOTE] Anyone that has the gull to do this someone that just lost their kid deserves to get the shit knocked out of him

Clearly the work of a Loving and Merciful God. What a fucking sham, it just goes to show what a joke organised religion is.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;53030670]Clearly the work of a Loving and Merciful God. What a fucking sham, it just goes to show what a joke organised religion is.[/QUOTE] Eastern Orthodox is heavily influenced by nationalism; that's a trait more associated with that branch than all of Christianity.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;53030670]Clearly the work of a Loving and Merciful God. What a fucking sham, it just goes to show what a joke organised religion is.[/QUOTE] It's more of the people than the religion. There are genuinely nice satanists and horrible christians. Also, not everyone who believe in the religion agrees with what the churches say and do. Funny thing is, in the book of Revelations in the Bible 10 of the 12 churches were condemned for their practices. Personally I believe that church should be just a place for community and nothing more. It's when it becomes a corporate entity that corruption and cruelty take place.

[quote]The death of a baby crushed by a drunk man who committed suicide by jumping out of an eighth-floor apartment in Ukraine[/quote] god damn that's the most depressing thing about this article

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;53031190]Eastern Orthodox is heavily influenced by nationalism; that's a trait more associated with that branch than all of Christianity.[/QUOTE] So is Eastern rite Catholicism, some of the biggest Ukrainian nationalists are its priests which survived the early USSR by being hot-housed in interwar Polish Galicia. That whole region is influenced by nationalism, mostly because unlike the west it was quashed by longer-lasting empires and later communism.

[QUOTE] A Moscow-led church in the central city of Zaporizhia refused to bury the one-year-old boy killed on New Year’s Eve because he was christened by a rival church overseen by Kiev. [/QUOTE] The example of politics trumping over ethics and morality. But then again, those countries are nationaists' bastion.

[QUOTE=Mifil;53032004]The example of politics trumping over ethics and morality. But then again, those countries are nationaists' bastion.[/QUOTE] Not just politics, Russian and Ukrainian orthodox churches had a feud since USSR destruction

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;53031190]Eastern Orthodox is heavily influenced by nationalism; that's a trait more associated with that branch than all of Christianity.[/QUOTE] Eastern Orthodox Christianity is a fucking excuse to look religious, nothing more.