The Estonian government plans to move a statue dedicated to Soviet war dead to a park outside of the capital Talinn. This quote from Polish think-tank crystalises, at least for me, the horrid victim culture Russia has immersed itself in order to never acknowledge and ultimately make amends for its many, many wrong-doings of the past:
Russia has never come to terms with its history. Russians continue to see
themselves only as victims of World War II, he said, and ignore the dictatorial
systems they imposed on the countries they liberated from the Germans.
Yes, Russia, the perennial victim. Pogroms, the gulags, the Ukrainian famine, the Katyn forest massacre, the Second World War, Dieppe (this poorly thought out and executed plan was brought on by the former Soviet Union's threats to make peace with the Germans), the Korean War, the Hungarian revolution, Prague Spring, the attempted assassination of John Paul II (it wasn't enough that they took over Poland; they had to squash its liberator, too), Alexander Litivenko, the recent protests against the authoritarian Putin. Yes, Russia is quite the victim- a victim of its own making. The West has put up with its denial and deflection even the Russian people and their erstwhile victims are tired of it.
Is the EU going to allow this and this from a prospective member? I should hope not.
Pope Benedict has revised the teaching on Limbo. Limbo was the place where unbaptised babies waited before going to Heaven. I've never felt it was a punishment but something that confirmed baptism as the thing that we needed for salvation. I never felt anyone was being punished but without that necessary step they could not advance until it was time. Just me.
Earth Day- crock or something that just happens to fall on my mum's birthday? YOU be the judge.
Mark Steyn is the hammer to society's nail.
Aw, damn.
And, finally, no one ever says Italy.
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You should be more specific. It was "Limbo of Children" that was "reversed." The Limbo of Our Fathers (aka Sheol / Abraham's Bosom) is still taught.
The issue may be that it was largely undefined. Now the problems are the people who don't understand what's going on putting their two cents in, and the people among them pointing and saying "See? See? They changed."
~Your Brother~
I Love Earth Day!(and your mom!!)
It's the only day that Hallmark hasn't tried to take over....yet.
I've been by a couple times to see if you've written anything regarding the tainted pet food in Canada & the US, melamine, and China's role in this. I'd be very interested in your take on this.
Limbo is a crock. Always was and always will be. First of all, it was ONLY ever a "theory". It was never, ever, never a "teaching". Secondly, it's a theory that is seriously flawed and which completely defies all logic. Hooray for B16 speaking out and saying what a lot of horsesh*it is it. Should have been done decades ago. Even though I agree with Your Brother's differentiation about the two types of limbo, still--when most people hear "limbo" they think of the unborn babies issue. That and a game you play with a pole.
The Russians are thugs, pure and simple.
I have no issue with Earth Day per se, except that it usually ends up being a celebration that borders on earth-worship by the tree-huggers.
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