#missionaries — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #missionaries, aggregated by home.social.
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Chosun Daily: Yanghwajin Archives Digitizes Edith’s Handprint, 1910s Missionary Photos. “The Yanghwajin Archives recently created a digital archive of over 7,000 items donated by the family of Rosetta Hall, the Welbon (1866–1928, Korean name Oh Wol-beon) missionary who worked in the Andong region, and the family of Jeon Taek-bu (1915–2008), well-known by his pen name Ori.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/chosun-daily-yanghwajin-archives-digitizes-ediths-handprint-1910s-missionary-photos/ -
Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?
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The #world needs #missionaries of love, missionaries of reason, not #mercenaries of organized #religion, out to harvest convert vegetation.
Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
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Alexander Duff—missionary and later Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland—describes seeing farm laborers crushed by high interest, producing hunger amid abundance, and being met with what he calls “unimpressible apathy.” Even while writing on evangelism, he refused to ignore economic exploitation. Is naming such suffering a distraction from faith, or part of it? How will you show sympathy that actually moves you to act?
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, several #Asian #missionaries visited #Wales
and spoke to Welsh congregations about the difficult circumstances under which they carry out their work.https://bydbach.hcommons.org/some-cursory-notes-on-asian-missionaries-in-victorian-wales/
#histodons #India #Kurdistan #Palestine #history #Bywgraffiadur
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there are 2 million #Christian #missionaries according to this PR, now this is shocking. Seeing that it's the 21st century shouldn't we accept other cultures rather than trying to convert people?
I think there shouldn't be any, the whole concept should be banned and considered a criminal activity.
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Was the Shimabara Rebellion a peasant uprising or a Christian holy war? This month’s Living Past revisits a brutal reckoning that still echoes through Japanese history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/history/christianity-japanese-history-massacre/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries
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George Grenfell, a Baptist missionary in the Congo Free State, admitted an awkward truth: many locals avoided missionaries. Fair enough—they associated Christians with the slave trade, so why expect good intentions?
Today, mention injustice alongside Christianity and some defend the injustice itself.
Grenfell saw three camps: the slavers, those calling slavery biblical, and those risking their lives to oppose it while preaching Christ. Still uncomfortably familiar?? -
Missionaries brought Christianity to Japan in the mid-1500s. Less than a century later, tens of thousands were slaughtered in a conflict between the shogunate and the devout. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/japan/history/edo-period-christianity-revolt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries
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i hope all #missionaries die i hope all #evangelical #christians die i hope all #tradwife content dies i hope the #mormon #church goes under i hope all mega #churches explode
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This is a tedious hit piece that gets re-run every few years. It always makes the same mistakes.
(1) overlooking the colonization of South Asia and Burma by British troops, Protestant missionaries, and capitalists, which is directly responsible for both Hindu Sangh Parivar violence (like Modi and the RSS/VHP) and Buddhist ethnic nationalism in Sri Lanka and Burma
(2) setting up a "wow, gosh, everyone thinks Buddhism is peaceful" straw man argument - look at the Mongols, Japanese Zen during the early 20th century, modern Korean Buddhism (nationalist and happy with military service), the Khampas who fought a guerilla war against the PLA.... it's only hand-wringing elites drenchef in colonial power who don't actually know the history of Buddhists worldwide.
(3) Treating Buddhist lineages worldwide as all part of a single "religion" -- itself a colonial idea enforced by European Christian missionaries, and now inescapably part of the post-colonial trap.
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"Too often missions are less a relationship that challenges and matures the American church and more a pleasing product to consume, a beautiful reflection upon which to gaze.”
~ Ibid.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #missionaries #evangelicalism #Trump
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“Whatever people around the world learn from missionaries, whatever elements of American Christianity they keep, and whatever the missionaries themselves bring or take away, one thing is clear: the American church has been less affected and less enlightened by those on the receiving end of its missionary endeavor, or even by their own missionaries, then one might hope."
~ Ibid., p. 139
#WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicalism #missionaries #Trump
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Pope Leo appeals for ceasefire in Myanmar, peace in war-torn lands https://www.byteseu.com/1465501/ #Angelus #appeal #Conflicts #HolyLand #Missionaries #Myanmar #peace #PopeLeoXiv #Ukraine
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The #Violent #Hypocrisy of #American #Christianity
#KayseMelone
#exchristian #exvangelical #christiannationalismChristianity has long been framed as the ultimate path to #morality, #familyvalues, and #goodliving. But #history tells a much darker story. From #missionaries who dismantled indigenous cultures to the role of Christianity in #colonization, #conquest, and modern Christian nationalism, the truth is clear:
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#Missionaries Are Targeting Isolated #Tribes in #Brazil With Solar-Powered #AudioDevices, Investigation Finds
https://gizmodo.com/missionaries-are-targeting-isolated-tribes-in-brazil-with-solar-powered-audio-devices-investigation-finds-2000636320
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/27/missionaries-using-secret-audio-devices-to-evangelise-brazils-isolated-peoples -
#Missionaries accused of #illegally giving #gadgets to isolated #Amazontribe
https://www.popsci.com/technology/missionary-gadget-amazon-tribe-contact/
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Churches populate the breadth of the U.S. national park system, from the barrier islands of South Carolina to the Pacific Islands of Hawaii, from New England to the American Southwest. Some still house active congregations, while others are of historical interest but no longer used for worship.
#religion #worship #spirituality #NationalParks #NationalParkService #spirituality #nationalparks #CivilRights #churches #synagogues #missions #missionaries #colonialism
https://www.sacredwonderland.us/worshipping-in-national-parks/ -
"Hello, have you a moment to hear the sacred word of Dagon?" #innsmouth #cursed #cult #missionaries #cthulhu #silentfilm #shadowoverinnsmouth #lovecraftian #lovecraft #dagon #surreal #weirdcore #dream #surrealism
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Blesseds Denis and Redemptus: Missionary Martyrs
The least that any of us who has truly begun to serve the Lord can offer Him is our own life. Since we have given the Lord our will, what do we fear? It is clear that if someone is a true religious or a true person of prayer and aims to enjoy the delights of God, he must not turn his back upon the desire to die for God and suffer martyrdom.
St. Teresa of Avila
The Way of Perfection, ch. 12Courage in Mission, Journey to Sanctity
On November 29, 1638, Blessed Denis of the Nativity and Blessed Redemptus of the Cross gave their lives as martyrs in Aceh, Sumatra. These Discalced Carmelite friars—one a former cartographer and naval commander, the other a soldier turned lay brother—exemplified the missionary spirit of Carmel.
- Blessed Denis of the Nativity (Pierre Berthelot): Born in Honfleur, France, on December 12, 1600, Denis distinguished himself as a cosmographer and pilot-in-chief for the Portuguese king. His cartographic expertise was renowned, and his works contributed significantly to Portuguese navigation and exploration. Despite his prominent naval career, Denis sought a higher calling. He joined the Discalced Carmelites in Goa in 1635 under the guidance of Father Philip of the Most Holy Trinity. Denis professed vows on December 25, 1636, and was ordained a priest on August 24, 1638.
- Blessed Redemptus of the Cross (Thomas Rodriguez da Cunha): Born around 1598 in Portugal, Redemptus served as a soldier before entering the Discalced Carmelites as a lay brother in 1615. Known for his humility and dedication, he became a trusted companion to Denis, offering steadfast support in their shared mission.
Both men transformed their worldly expertise into tools for evangelization, fully committing themselves to their Carmelite vocations.
The Mission in Indonesia
In September 1638, Denis and Redemptus were assigned to accompany Ambassador Francisco de Souza de Castro on a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Aceh. Denis served as a spiritual guide and maritime expert due to his knowledge of navigation and the Malay language. However, the mission’s arrival on October 25, 1638, was shadowed by geopolitical tensions, with the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a rival of the Portuguese in the spice trade, reportedly influenced the Sultan of Aceh to betray the delegation.
Upon their imprisonment, Denis and Redemptus were subjected to relentless torture as their captors tried to force them to renounce their Catholic faith and convert to Islam. Denis became a source of strength for his fellow prisoners, depriving himself of necessities to aid others and encouraging them with words of faith and hope.
Redemptus was executed first, shot with arrows before his throat was slit. Denis, holding a crucifix, was martyred last, receiving a fatal sword blow that split his head.
The martyrdom of Denis and Redemptus was not solely a case of religious persecution. The mission to Aceh occurred at the intersection of faith and politics, with Portugal and the Dutch VOC vying for dominance in the Southeast Asian spice trade. Their deaths highlight the challenges faced by missionaries operating in politically charged environments, even today.
Faithful Witnesses
Denis and Redemptus were beatified by Pope Leo XIII on June 10, 1900, as the first beatified martyrs of the Discalced Carmelite friars. Their feast day on November 29 honors their courage, missionary zeal, and faithful witness to Christ. Their deaths remind us of the sacrifices made to spread the Gospel, even in hostile and complex circumstances.
Want a concise account of the mission and martyrdom of Blesseds Denis and Redemptus? Click below to listen to our podcast on YouTube and be inspired by their incredible story of faith and courage.
Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.
Discalced Carmelite Postulator, Biografia di Dionisio della Natività, accessed 27 November 2024, https://www.postocd.org/index.php/it/biografia-dionisio-della-nativita.
Discalced Carmelite Postulator, Biografia di Redento della Croce, accessed 27 November 2024, https://www.postocd.org/index.php/it/biografia-redento-della-croce.
Wikipedia, ‘Pierre Berthelot (navigateur)’, accessed 27 November 2024, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berthelot_(navigateur).
Featured image: OpenAI DALL·E 2024, ‘Landscape illustration symbolizing Aceh, Sumatra,’ generated 27 November 2024.
#DenisOfTheNativity #Indonesia #martyrs #missionaries #Podcast #RedemptusOfTheCross #StTeresaOfAvila
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️
With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.
Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,
and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
—Trump deflects.Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
but he has further said Putin has been
“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
Putin presents something of an ur-leader:a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.
The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
has little interest in investigating these ties,
or of slowing these swelling links.While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
with the American president acting as a partner,
witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.(10/10)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars -
⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️
With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.
Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,
and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
—Trump deflects.Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
but he has further said Putin has been
“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
Putin presents something of an ur-leader:a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.
The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
has little interest in investigating these ties,
or of slowing these swelling links.While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
with the American president acting as a partner,
witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.(10/10)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars -
⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️
With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.
Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,
and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
—Trump deflects.Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
but he has further said Putin has been
“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
Putin presents something of an ur-leader:a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.
The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
has little interest in investigating these ties,
or of slowing these swelling links.While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
with the American president acting as a partner,
witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.(10/10)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars -
⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️
With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.
Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,
and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
—Trump deflects.Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
but he has further said Putin has been
“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
Putin presents something of an ur-leader:a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.
The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
has little interest in investigating these ties,
or of slowing these swelling links.While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
with the American president acting as a partner,
witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.(10/10)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars -
⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️
With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.
Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,
and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
—Trump deflects.Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
but he has further said Putin has been
“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
Putin presents something of an ur-leader:a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.
The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
has little interest in investigating these ties,
or of slowing these swelling links.While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
with the American president acting as a partner,
witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.(10/10)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars -
The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.One such moment came in early 2014,
when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
—and Russian Orthodox believers
—as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
and the conference proceeded in all but name.Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.
Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
“Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”(9/N)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.One such moment came in early 2014,
when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
—and Russian Orthodox believers
—as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
and the conference proceeded in all but name.Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.
Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
“Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”(9/N)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.One such moment came in early 2014,
when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
—and Russian Orthodox believers
—as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
and the conference proceeded in all but name.Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.
Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
“Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”(9/N)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.One such moment came in early 2014,
when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
—and Russian Orthodox believers
—as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
and the conference proceeded in all but name.Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.
Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
“Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”(9/N)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.One such moment came in early 2014,
when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
—and Russian Orthodox believers
—as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
and the conference proceeded in all but name.Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.
Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
“Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”(9/N)
#Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
are easy to trace.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.#Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
—has also served as a WCF committee member.Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
settled into Moscow for a
“Demographic Summit,”
the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
and conservative circles of several European countries
where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:
The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”
Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
or supporting Kremlin policy.Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
has called Putin the
“lion of Christianity.”Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”(8/N)
#WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
are easy to trace.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.#Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
—has also served as a WCF committee member.Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
settled into Moscow for a
“Demographic Summit,”
the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
and conservative circles of several European countries
where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:
The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”
Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
or supporting Kremlin policy.Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
has called Putin the
“lion of Christianity.”Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”(8/N)
#WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
are easy to trace.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.#Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
—has also served as a WCF committee member.Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
settled into Moscow for a
“Demographic Summit,”
the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
and conservative circles of several European countries
where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:
The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”
Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
or supporting Kremlin policy.Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
has called Putin the
“lion of Christianity.”Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”(8/N)
#WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
are easy to trace.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.#Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
—has also served as a WCF committee member.Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
settled into Moscow for a
“Demographic Summit,”
the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
and conservative circles of several European countries
where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:
The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”
Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
or supporting Kremlin policy.Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
has called Putin the
“lion of Christianity.”Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”(8/N)
#WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
are easy to trace.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.#Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
—has also served as a WCF committee member.Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
settled into Moscow for a
“Demographic Summit,”
the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
and conservative circles of several European countries
where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:
The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”
Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
or supporting Kremlin policy.Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
has called Putin the
“lion of Christianity.”Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”(8/N)
#WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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⭐️The World Congress of Families
-- From Idea to Movement⭐️One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
"World Congress of Families".Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
“respect, protect, and defend” the
“natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
and the Russian Orthodox Church.In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:
According to Jennifer Butler’s
“Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
“they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
—the idea that progressive legislation,
from birth control to LGBT rights,
will precipitate civilizational collapse
—and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
—and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:
Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”
The group hosts global and regional summits
designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
where speakers encouraged attendees to
“stay firm against homofascists”
and “rainbow radicals.”One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
"International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.
Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."And it appears that they are wasting no time.
In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.
(7/N)
#Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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⭐️The World Congress of Families
-- From Idea to Movement⭐️One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
"World Congress of Families".Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
“respect, protect, and defend” the
“natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
and the Russian Orthodox Church.In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:
According to Jennifer Butler’s
“Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
“they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
—the idea that progressive legislation,
from birth control to LGBT rights,
will precipitate civilizational collapse
—and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
—and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:
Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”
The group hosts global and regional summits
designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
where speakers encouraged attendees to
“stay firm against homofascists”
and “rainbow radicals.”One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
"International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.
Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."And it appears that they are wasting no time.
In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.
(7/N)
#Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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⭐️The World Congress of Families
-- From Idea to Movement⭐️One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
"World Congress of Families".Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
“respect, protect, and defend” the
“natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
and the Russian Orthodox Church.In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:
According to Jennifer Butler’s
“Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
“they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
—the idea that progressive legislation,
from birth control to LGBT rights,
will precipitate civilizational collapse
—and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
—and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:
Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”
The group hosts global and regional summits
designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
where speakers encouraged attendees to
“stay firm against homofascists”
and “rainbow radicals.”One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
"International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.
Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."And it appears that they are wasting no time.
In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.
(7/N)
#Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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⭐️The World Congress of Families
-- From Idea to Movement⭐️One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
"World Congress of Families".Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
“respect, protect, and defend” the
“natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
and the Russian Orthodox Church.In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:
According to Jennifer Butler’s
“Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
“they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
—the idea that progressive legislation,
from birth control to LGBT rights,
will precipitate civilizational collapse
—and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
—and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:
Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”
The group hosts global and regional summits
designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
where speakers encouraged attendees to
“stay firm against homofascists”
and “rainbow radicals.”One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
"International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.
Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."And it appears that they are wasting no time.
In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.
(7/N)
#Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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⭐️The World Congress of Families
-- From Idea to Movement⭐️One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
"World Congress of Families".Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
“respect, protect, and defend” the
“natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
and the Russian Orthodox Church.In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:
According to Jennifer Butler’s
“Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
“they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
—the idea that progressive legislation,
from birth control to LGBT rights,
will precipitate civilizational collapse
—and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
—and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:
Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”
The group hosts global and regional summits
designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
where speakers encouraged attendees to
“stay firm against homofascists”
and “rainbow radicals.”One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
"International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.
Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."And it appears that they are wasting no time.
In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.
(7/N)
#Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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While white nationalists continue to pile praise on Putin’s policies,
so too has the U.S.’s #Religious #Right heaped approval on Moscow.Indeed, at some point over the past few years, Russia stopped being one of the primary importers of legislation inspired by the American Religious Right,
and has instead begun exporting both rhetorical support and model legislation for social conservatives throughout the world.“We’ve seen an interesting crystallization in Putin’s third term of this kind of … nationalizing the culture wars
—in part an American export
—and then re-exporting them,”
said Christopher Stroop, a postdoctoral scholar with the University of South Florida,
who has researched Russia’s links with the American Religious Right.“Russia has begun explicitly branding itself as leader of the global right.”
As Stroop found, ties between Moscow and the U.S. Religious Right predate Putin’s presidency.
In a 2016 article for Political Research Associates, Stroop traced the burgeoning links among
“right-wing fellow travelers” in Russia and the U.S.
to the initial days of post-Soviet independence.Combining a nationalized Christianity with
doses of anti-gay orthodoxy,
#American #missionaries sought to reprise their culture war successes in the West within Boris Yeltsin’s Russia.Religious Right organizations such as the Co-Mission
“would go and talk to Russian government officials, Orthodox officials, and say,
‘We want to help you rebuild post-Communist Russia,’”
Stroop said,
adding that they would implement a
“hardline ethics curriculum, where the only way to live an ethical life is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”As the Soviet period receded, these groups found increasingly fertile ground in Russia.
To be sure, during Putin’s first two terms,
the Russian Orthodox Church, with the full-throated support of the country’s leadership,
regained its role as the dominant organized religion within Russia,
especially in terms of proximity to the state.But any pushback within Russia against American-led evangelicalism toward a homegrown faith,
including recent legislation directed against Protestant proselytizing,
has hardly dampened the affinity with which the American Religious Right views Moscow(6/N)
#David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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While white nationalists continue to pile praise on Putin’s policies,
so too has the U.S.’s #Religious #Right heaped approval on Moscow.Indeed, at some point over the past few years, Russia stopped being one of the primary importers of legislation inspired by the American Religious Right,
and has instead begun exporting both rhetorical support and model legislation for social conservatives throughout the world.“We’ve seen an interesting crystallization in Putin’s third term of this kind of … nationalizing the culture wars
—in part an American export
—and then re-exporting them,”
said Christopher Stroop, a postdoctoral scholar with the University of South Florida,
who has researched Russia’s links with the American Religious Right.“Russia has begun explicitly branding itself as leader of the global right.”
As Stroop found, ties between Moscow and the U.S. Religious Right predate Putin’s presidency.
In a 2016 article for Political Research Associates, Stroop traced the burgeoning links among
“right-wing fellow travelers” in Russia and the U.S.
to the initial days of post-Soviet independence.Combining a nationalized Christianity with
doses of anti-gay orthodoxy,
#American #missionaries sought to reprise their culture war successes in the West within Boris Yeltsin’s Russia.Religious Right organizations such as the Co-Mission
“would go and talk to Russian government officials, Orthodox officials, and say,
‘We want to help you rebuild post-Communist Russia,’”
Stroop said,
adding that they would implement a
“hardline ethics curriculum, where the only way to live an ethical life is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”As the Soviet period receded, these groups found increasingly fertile ground in Russia.
To be sure, during Putin’s first two terms,
the Russian Orthodox Church, with the full-throated support of the country’s leadership,
regained its role as the dominant organized religion within Russia,
especially in terms of proximity to the state.But any pushback within Russia against American-led evangelicalism toward a homegrown faith,
including recent legislation directed against Protestant proselytizing,
has hardly dampened the affinity with which the American Religious Right views Moscow(6/N)
#David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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While white nationalists continue to pile praise on Putin’s policies,
so too has the U.S.’s #Religious #Right heaped approval on Moscow.Indeed, at some point over the past few years, Russia stopped being one of the primary importers of legislation inspired by the American Religious Right,
and has instead begun exporting both rhetorical support and model legislation for social conservatives throughout the world.“We’ve seen an interesting crystallization in Putin’s third term of this kind of … nationalizing the culture wars
—in part an American export
—and then re-exporting them,”
said Christopher Stroop, a postdoctoral scholar with the University of South Florida,
who has researched Russia’s links with the American Religious Right.“Russia has begun explicitly branding itself as leader of the global right.”
As Stroop found, ties between Moscow and the U.S. Religious Right predate Putin’s presidency.
In a 2016 article for Political Research Associates, Stroop traced the burgeoning links among
“right-wing fellow travelers” in Russia and the U.S.
to the initial days of post-Soviet independence.Combining a nationalized Christianity with
doses of anti-gay orthodoxy,
#American #missionaries sought to reprise their culture war successes in the West within Boris Yeltsin’s Russia.Religious Right organizations such as the Co-Mission
“would go and talk to Russian government officials, Orthodox officials, and say,
‘We want to help you rebuild post-Communist Russia,’”
Stroop said,
adding that they would implement a
“hardline ethics curriculum, where the only way to live an ethical life is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”As the Soviet period receded, these groups found increasingly fertile ground in Russia.
To be sure, during Putin’s first two terms,
the Russian Orthodox Church, with the full-throated support of the country’s leadership,
regained its role as the dominant organized religion within Russia,
especially in terms of proximity to the state.But any pushback within Russia against American-led evangelicalism toward a homegrown faith,
including recent legislation directed against Protestant proselytizing,
has hardly dampened the affinity with which the American Religious Right views Moscow(6/N)
#David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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While white nationalists continue to pile praise on Putin’s policies,
so too has the U.S.’s #Religious #Right heaped approval on Moscow.Indeed, at some point over the past few years, Russia stopped being one of the primary importers of legislation inspired by the American Religious Right,
and has instead begun exporting both rhetorical support and model legislation for social conservatives throughout the world.“We’ve seen an interesting crystallization in Putin’s third term of this kind of … nationalizing the culture wars
—in part an American export
—and then re-exporting them,”
said Christopher Stroop, a postdoctoral scholar with the University of South Florida,
who has researched Russia’s links with the American Religious Right.“Russia has begun explicitly branding itself as leader of the global right.”
As Stroop found, ties between Moscow and the U.S. Religious Right predate Putin’s presidency.
In a 2016 article for Political Research Associates, Stroop traced the burgeoning links among
“right-wing fellow travelers” in Russia and the U.S.
to the initial days of post-Soviet independence.Combining a nationalized Christianity with
doses of anti-gay orthodoxy,
#American #missionaries sought to reprise their culture war successes in the West within Boris Yeltsin’s Russia.Religious Right organizations such as the Co-Mission
“would go and talk to Russian government officials, Orthodox officials, and say,
‘We want to help you rebuild post-Communist Russia,’”
Stroop said,
adding that they would implement a
“hardline ethics curriculum, where the only way to live an ethical life is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”As the Soviet period receded, these groups found increasingly fertile ground in Russia.
To be sure, during Putin’s first two terms,
the Russian Orthodox Church, with the full-throated support of the country’s leadership,
regained its role as the dominant organized religion within Russia,
especially in terms of proximity to the state.But any pushback within Russia against American-led evangelicalism toward a homegrown faith,
including recent legislation directed against Protestant proselytizing,
has hardly dampened the affinity with which the American Religious Right views Moscow(6/N)
#David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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While white nationalists continue to pile praise on Putin’s policies,
so too has the U.S.’s #Religious #Right heaped approval on Moscow.Indeed, at some point over the past few years, Russia stopped being one of the primary importers of legislation inspired by the American Religious Right,
and has instead begun exporting both rhetorical support and model legislation for social conservatives throughout the world.“We’ve seen an interesting crystallization in Putin’s third term of this kind of … nationalizing the culture wars
—in part an American export
—and then re-exporting them,”
said Christopher Stroop, a postdoctoral scholar with the University of South Florida,
who has researched Russia’s links with the American Religious Right.“Russia has begun explicitly branding itself as leader of the global right.”
As Stroop found, ties between Moscow and the U.S. Religious Right predate Putin’s presidency.
In a 2016 article for Political Research Associates, Stroop traced the burgeoning links among
“right-wing fellow travelers” in Russia and the U.S.
to the initial days of post-Soviet independence.Combining a nationalized Christianity with
doses of anti-gay orthodoxy,
#American #missionaries sought to reprise their culture war successes in the West within Boris Yeltsin’s Russia.Religious Right organizations such as the Co-Mission
“would go and talk to Russian government officials, Orthodox officials, and say,
‘We want to help you rebuild post-Communist Russia,’”
Stroop said,
adding that they would implement a
“hardline ethics curriculum, where the only way to live an ethical life is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”As the Soviet period receded, these groups found increasingly fertile ground in Russia.
To be sure, during Putin’s first two terms,
the Russian Orthodox Church, with the full-throated support of the country’s leadership,
regained its role as the dominant organized religion within Russia,
especially in terms of proximity to the state.But any pushback within Russia against American-led evangelicalism toward a homegrown faith,
including recent legislation directed against Protestant proselytizing,
has hardly dampened the affinity with which the American Religious Right views Moscow(6/N)
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