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**Coollabioto** · 01-16-2008, 11:31 PM

this is very heartening to me as i have seen elsewhere on this site that ra (or cayce?) said that russia is the hope of the world. i am american, but i am a complete russophile and grew up with russian refugees because my mother converted from catholicism to the eastern orthodox church. it had often seemed confusing, and a bit hard to me, that the russian people and church should have been subjected to so much suffering when it is really quite a pure and clean religion - they don't believe in original guilt, they consider the holy spirit to be the leader of the church, they don't condemn nonbelievers to hell, and they have never had anything like the inquisition. i moved past the need to identify with any particular religion years ago, but neither would i ever call myself a 'recovering orthodox christian.'

a great russian saint (st. seraphim of sarov) who lived in the 1800s said that the day was coming for russia when the angels would not have time to gather the dead. what with the purges, wwii (11 million) and stalin, his prophecy came true.

it also seems to me, though, that religions get badly fossilized, and when people hold firmly to dogma, it can block them from accepting a better and higher truth. so perhaps the overthrow of the church in russia has left its people free to come to a new understanding appropriate for these times. russians are very intelligent and psychic.

01-16-2008, 11:31 PM	#12
Coollabioto Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	this is very heartening to me as i have seen elsewhere on this site that ra (or cayce?) said that russia is the hope of the world. i am american, but i am a complete russophile and grew up with russian refugees because my mother converted from catholicism to the eastern orthodox church. it had often seemed confusing, and a bit hard to me, that the russian people and church should have been subjected to so much suffering when it is really quite a pure and clean religion - they don't believe in original guilt, they consider the holy spirit to be the leader of the church, they don't condemn nonbelievers to hell, and they have never had anything like the inquisition. i moved past the need to identify with any particular religion years ago, but neither would i ever call myself a 'recovering orthodox christian.' a great russian saint (st. seraphim of sarov) who lived in the 1800s said that the day was coming for russia when the angels would not have time to gather the dead. what with the purges, wwii (11 million) and stalin, his prophecy came true. it also seems to me, though, that religions get badly fossilized, and when people hold firmly to dogma, it can block them from accepting a better and higher truth. so perhaps the overthrow of the church in russia has left its people free to come to a new understanding appropriate for these times. russians are very intelligent and psychic.
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