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KGB agent: Patriarch Kirill

As has been noted, I have VERY critical of "conservatives" that support Putin.  Or, for that fact, Patriarch Kirill.  (I have an article that I wrote for Catholic 365 about how truth matters, and Tucker Carlson's "interview" wasn't entirely truthful).  

So, how do I know Patriarch Kirill was a KGB agent?  

Some years ago, I had a Facebook, and I would communicate with a Ukrainian Greek Catholic man (who is now a Greek Catholic deacon), and he had made the claim that Kirill was a KGB agent.  

I said this on the Catholic Answers Forums, and I got in trouble for being "uncharitable".  Except what I was doing was stating a fact. ( Qui est Cyrille, le chef de l'Eglise orthodoxe russe et apôtre de la guerre en Ukraine ?).  If you don't speak French, it says "Who is Cyril, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and apostle of the War in Ukraine"?  That article, which is very detailed, tells you about Cyril's KGB background, and, how he made his money.  

He's pretty wealthy for an Orthodox bishop, if you ask me.  German Catholic bishops ain't got nothing on him.  

Of course, I can't say as though I'm surprised.  We hear this refrain from some (not all, Sebastian Gorka, for instance, is pro-Ukraine, as am I), American conservatives about how "Ukraine is corrupt".  Okay, and Russia isn't?  Note that I would never use Cyril's corruption to prove Russian Orthodoxy to be false (the fact that there is such disunity between Eastern Orthodox churches is evidence enough for me, almost no other Orthodox consider the Russian church to be Eastern Orthodox at this point).  But, the point remains, you can not argue that Ukraine is corrupt, when the very country you're supporting, is even more corrupt.  

There's also this weird belief that Putin is some kind of good Christian because he banned LGBT propaganda.  Do you think his mistress agrees?  (Алина Кабаева | Семья Путина)  What about his ex-wife?  (Putin's Ex-Wife's Messages Detail Unhappiness as First Lady: Navalny Probe)

There's a lot that can be said about Putin, but, he being a good Christian is not one of those things.  

Patriarch Kirill bothers me more than Putin does, though.  Presumably, Kirill knows his Bible, so, he would probably be familiar with what Revelation 21:8 says.  

God have mercy on him if he knows it, but still persists in his lies.

Make no mistake, Putin and Kirill are knowingly lying about Ukraine.  

How do I know it's knowingly?  Because they're both former KGB agents.  This is where disinformation comes into play.  Keep in mind, those terms "misinformation" and "disinformation".  I don't like using them, because leftists use them wrongly to mean an opinion they disagree with.  

But the KGB knew disinformation.  Think about what they were and what they did.  To Cyril and Putin, the Russian Orthodox church is an arm of the state.  Just as it was in Soviet times.  

Take, for instance, the fact that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church doesn't exist as a legal entity in Russia.  And is "banned" (which Russia has zero legal right to do), in occupied Ukraine.  (Again, not Russia) (Greek-Catholic Church banned in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast a year ago by local top collaborationist)  Take, for instance, the fact that, while there are Catholic churches in Russia (Russian Catholic: Current ‘situation very like the atheist Soviet Union’), none of them are Ukrainian Greek Catholic.  (Oh, and, also, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, et cetera, are Ukraine).  

So where does this refrain come from, that Russia is a "Christian country", or that Putin is a "good Christian"?  Or that Russia is morally superior to the west.

Orthobros.

And I will let you read this to explain that.  (Truth matters).  Yes, I cited myself, live with it.