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in what way is Russian culture similar to the US? from a religious point of view, are you suggesting that Eastern Orthodox Christianity is similar to the hodge
by zht 5y ago
in what way is Russian culture similar to the US?
from a religious point of view, are you suggesting that Eastern Orthodox Christianity is similar to the hodgepodge of various Christian sects in the States?
- ModernMech 5y agoThere has been a concerted campaign by the American right over the past number of years to portray Russia as a conservative utopia Christian ethnostate, where they worship God, guns, and country, and being gay is illegal. This view has lead some in my family to proclaim they'd rather be Russian than a Democrat, because they feel they have more in common with foreigners living across the world under a dictatorship in another country than their own family in a different political party.
- devoutsalsa 5y agoThe most obvious similarity I can think of would be a mutual loathing of Nickelback.
- Starlevel001 5y ago> in what way is Russian culture similar to the US? Overtly fascist
- alkaloid 5y agoDoesn't the US have a large population of Roman and Eastern Catholics? Catholic and Orthodox are two sides of the same coin, this is why I bring it up. I'm also aware that the US has a lot of various Orthodox sects as well, including Russian.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Doesn't the US have a large population of Roman and Eastern Catholics? Eastern Catholics are Roman (but not Latin-Rite) Catholics. And, yes, the US has a lot of Catholics. > Catholic and Orthodox are two sides of the same coin From the perspective of some Protestants, maybe, though from the Orthodox perspective one might see the two sides of the Catholic/Protestant schism as much closer than the Catholic side of that schism is to the Orthodox side of the East/West schism.