Scripture for Today, 7-13-17

President Vladimir Putin of Russia Speaks Out in Defense of Christianity and Moral Values

 7-12-17, Annette --  I transcribed this from a 3 min video** and contacted a brother in Christ, an American in Russia who checked the interpretation to English - he said it's accurate. Pres Putin seems in alliance with William J. Bennet, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency under President Reagan. Bennett said that the politically correct thinking is pervasive on many college campuses. It insists that students be left wing in speech and opinion. Particularly on issues having to do with homosexuality, feminism, race, immigration and globalism. Putin's speech is somewhat lengthy but worth your time. I highlighted some pertinent content.

Defending Christian Culture, Opposes Western Values
​and Condemns Political Correctness
Transcript: Russian President Vladimir Putin

September 19, 2013, Valdai Forum -- President Putin was responding to questions from media about his criticism of the west and about Russia's new change towards religion and Christianity he answered:
 
"I don't want to criticize other nations but ... A further challenge for the national Russian identity is connected to the processes we observe outside of Russia. They include foreign policy, moral and other aspects.
 
We see that many euro-Atlantic [the West] states have taken the way where they deny or reject their own roots, including their Christian roots which form the basis of Western civilization. In these countries, the moral basis and any traditional identity are being denied -- national, religious, cultural and even gender identities are being denied or relativised.
 
There, politics treats a family with many children as equal to a homosexual partnership [juristically=law] faith in God is equal to faith in Satan*. The excesses and exaggerations of political correctness in these countries indeed leads to serious consideration for the legitimization of parties that promote the propaganda of paedophilia [sex with children].
 
The people in many European States [and the USA] are actually ashamed of their religious affiliations and are indeed frightened to speak about them. Christian holidays and celebrations are abolished or 'neutrally' renamed, as if one were ashamed of those Christian holidays. With this method one hides away the deeper moral value of these celebrations. And these countries try to force this model onto other countries, globally. I am deeply convinced that this is a direct way to the degradation and primitivization [of culture]. This leads to deeper demographic and more crisis in the West.
 
What can be a better evidence for the moral crisis of a human society [in the West] than the loss of its reproductive function? And today nearly all 'developed' western countries cannot survive reproductively [1], not even with the help of migrants.
 
Without the moral values that are rooted in Christianity and other world religions, without rules and moral values which have formed and been developed over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity [become brutes]. And we think it's right and natural to defend and preserve those moral [Christian] values.

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One has to respect the right of every minority to self-determination, but at the same time there cannot and must not be any doubt about the rights of the majority.
 
At the same time as this process at the national level [in the west] we observe on an international level the attempts to create a unipolar, unified model of the world. To relativise and remove institutions of international right and national sovereignty. [Putin speaks about the US imperium] In such an unipolar, unified world there is no place for sovereign states; such a world needs merely vassals [a subservient person under the protection of a feudal lord [government] to whom he has vowed respect]. From a historical perspective, such an unipolar world [of the USA] would mean the surrender of one's own identity and of God created diversity.
 
Russia will side with those who defend the point of view that important global decisions have to be made on a collective basis, and not in the interest of only one state [USA] or one group of states [NATO].

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** See video here President Putin speaking in Russian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLinzSIcIac also here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pSe2zRaQI
 ​* Satanists Demand Equal Rights - May 28, 2015 · Satan and the angels as created beings of God do not hold an equal ... United States of America.
[1] Depopulation of the Western Nations Only Muslims Increase in Population - ​The global elitists are beginning to publicly play their hand by introducing the concept of taxing childbirth. In short, they have disguised their global depopulation scheme as being a necessary action in the effort to fight climate change. For years, more babies were born to Christian women than to women of any other religion, but not for much longer: Islam is expected to take the global lead. More here

1 Corinthians 3:18-19 "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."