The myth that Trump is Anti Ukraine (and Pro-Putin or Pro-Russia)

 So, why am I writing about this on a Christian blog?  Well, first of all, this is hardly the first time that I've written about politics or Trump on my blog.  Second of all, as Satan is the "Father of lies" (John 8:44), we need to clear up some things about this.

For me, while I think picking a confirmed Vatnik like JD Vance is a HUGE mistake (okay, let's do it in a Trump voice, "Yuge mistake")! 

It does seem to largely be leftist propaganda.  Check out the TRUMP administration's official position on Crimea (as Crimea is Ukraine, regardless of what Russia says).  

Check it out, Crimea Declaration

(For the record, it was largely Obama that was hands off with Crimea)

So, we have proven that the Trump administration is Pro-Ukraine, so, where does the idea that it isn't come from?

Some of it comes from Pro-Russian propagandists like Tucker Carlson (Truth matters) and because people think of Mr. Carlson as a Conservative, they believe that it's somehow conservative to support Russia.

If Ukraine wants more western conservative support, a good idea would be to refer to Putin as a KGB agent, and how he praised communism and socialism.  

There's this reluctance to criticize communism and socialism when dealing with westerners from Ukrainians (even the Holodomor museum seems to praise socialism), but, in Ukrainian, Ukrainians have no problem talking about how evil it is.

Why is this important?  Because if Ukraine can convince people that Ukraine is fighting the evils of, not just fascism (Putin is hard to pinpoint, politically, he's so far right, he's far left, he's so far left, he's far right), but of communism and socialism, the west, and especially the United States WILL support Ukraine. 

And anyone who tells you they're not our ally either can't read, is lying to you, or chooses to remain in ignorance.

Glory to Ukraine, Glory to Jesus Christ!

Is Steve Bannon the world's biggest liar?

 Let me say at the offset, that I don't think Steve Bannon should be serving time in jail, at all, as no one else has, as far as I know, has for doing the same thing.  (Trump ally Steve Bannon ordered to jail by Trump-appointed judge).

I don't know if Steve Bannon is intentionally lying, but I know he's being deceitful.  Although I don't follow him on Gettr, I know that yesterday(6 June 2024) he claimed that Zelensky was "unelected" (for the record, he was democratically elected, Steve Bannon can't be bothered to use Ukrainian sources, so he doesn't know that the Ukrainian constitution has provisions for Martial Law, (CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE)

I don't know Steve Bannon's religious beliefs, but he has (an admittedly, very beautiful) image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on his show.  So, using Catholic imagery, I'd guess he's Catholic (although, I have seen other Christians, especially High Church Anglicans), use that imagery.  

So, does he care that Russia engages in systematic persecution of  Catholics? (Russia bans Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Catholic ministries in occupied region of Ukraine), (Russian Human Rights Commissioner acknowledged the detention of two UGCC clergymen by Russia) as well as other Christians (OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Protestant woman on trial for Melitopol prayer meeting?)

Does he care that Russia bombs churches, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant?  (OCU priest from Mariupol tells how Russians bombed the church and killed his mother) (https://risu.ua/en/a-rocket-exploded-during-a-service-in-odesa_n148771) 

And the Vanik contingency pretends this is about religious freedom.  Umm, Russia doesn't have religious freedom, so that's a nonsense inference.  

Hmm, restricting people's religious practices, and targeting them because of their ethnic backgrounds, hmm.  Who does that remind us of again?  

And before the collective Vatniki (they don't know it's called that) complain about how the UOC-MP is treated in Ukraine, keep in mind, that priests and bishops from the UOC-MP COLLOBORATED with the Russian invaders.  And, FYI, the UOC-MP is still completely legal in Ukraine.  But, when you know that, this is actually a good step. (Security Service blocks channel of anti-Ukrainian literature distribution via UOC-MP church shops) (UOC-MP clergymen to be banned from becoming military chaplains - government decree)

Did you know the woman responsible for ensuring Ukrainian children are kidnapped is the wife of a Russian Orthodox priest?  (The child abductor facing the Hague arrest warrant has a husband who is a priest of the ROC)

And the collective Vatniki accuse Ukraine of being full of Nazis.

Question to the Vatnik contingency, besides being the reason people think Trump is Pro-Putin (he's not, see here; Soviet and Russian Invasions Since 1917), why are you so quick to believe easily refutable Russian propaganda?  Just because the mainstream media lies, how does that logically follow that Alternative media is telling they truth?  They could both be lying!  

What REALLY frustrated me, is how so many of these Vatniki claim that we need to take down the CCP (agreed), but THEN praise Russia, about that;(United Kingdom Accuses China of Supplying Arms to Russia).

For the record, I already knew about that.  Just as I already knew about this, (Russia is using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops to create panic before it attacks: report)

Serious question for the Vatnik contingency: have y'all actually talked to Ukrainians?  Do you talk to people that live in Ukraine?  

I do.  And I've learned MORE than you could even imagine.  

Mainstream Media doesn't report just how bad it is.  Yep, it's MUCH worse than what you're told. 

Calling the Russian soldiers "orcs" is disrespectful to orcs.  

They're monsters, yes, but they're worse than orcs.  

What's infuriating to me is the sheer amount of absurdity that you'd have to believe that Ukraine was a "Nazi" country.  

This is an old communist tactic, a good example of this is the idea Pius XII was a Nazi sympathizer and didn't speak out against The Nazis.  About that; (Historical Dishonesty )

So, my question is this, do you care about the truth, Steve?  I mean, you seem to be some sort of Christian, do you believe Jesus when he says the truth will make you free (John 8:32)

Or do you have Satan as your father? (John 8:44)?

If you'd like to support Ukraine in the war effort (as 97% of all of Russia's targets in Ukraine are civilian in nature), I recommend donating here, (The League of Young Volunteers), 

If you'd like to check out a song I made about people like Steve Bannon, check out, here; (Adam Charles Hovey-They know it)

And if you'd like to know more about me, check out The Adam Charles Hovey Podcast

The prayer of Manasses

 

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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.  

Rise of the Putin bots

  Note, for more information, go here: Responding to Archbishop Viganò & What's Going on in Ukraine w/ Fr Jason Charron  (Fr. Jason does get one thing wrong, the so called "Pachamama" episode, as Fr. Deacon Dragani, has conclusively proven, that was NOT an example of idol worship, Fr. Jason, that is a PROTESTANT argument, not a Catholic one), but, Fr. Jason gets everything else more or less right (his wife is Ukrainian and he used to live in Ukraine, and has family there)

 So, since 2014, parts of Ukraine have been illegally occupied by Russia. Since 2022, Russia escalated its war in Ukraine.  Now, I am not a legal scholar, but, I DO know that there has stangely been Conservatives supporting Putin's actions.  Like Archbishop, Viganò, who, for the record, I think is lying.  What's bizarre is how Viganò has called Moscow the "third Rome".  Moscow was NEVER part of the Pentarchy, as it didn't exist, yet.  I am not arguing that the United States should send soldiers to Ukraine to fight Russia (which is never a position I have held), but I am failing to understand some of the "Conservative" arguments people make to defend Putin.  "Ukraine is corrupt", okay, and Russia isn't?  "Russia is a Christian nation", Christian nations have amongst the highest abortion rates on earth?  "Putin is a Russia first guy"!  By invading a sovereign nation?  "Ukraine is full of Nazis and fascists".  Because Nazis are well known for their love of Jews (Zelensky is Jewish), ethnic Jews (the former defense minister is of Jewish descent), and Muslims (the most recently appointed defense minister is a Crimean Tatar Muslim).  

What's even more confusing, is those defending Putin don't seem to know his actual positions.  Were Viganò consistent, he'd know that Catholicism is heavily restricted in Russia, that he couldn't even preach in the streets, to tell them the truth of Catholicism.  The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is outlawed, so, how, exactly is this a Christian nation?  At this point, because of the 2018 schism, it's not even an Eastern Orthodox nation.  And lest someone asks me how I know what's actually going on, because I can read some Ukrainian, speak a little bit, and am completely capable of reading Cyrillic.  I've also bothered talking to people from there. A widow, a RUSSIAN speaking widow, who is 100% Pro-Ukraine, is not going to lie about what's going on.  A Russian soldier who was told that it was a "special operation" to "De-Nazify" Ukraine, isn't lying, intentionally, because that's what they were told.  Of course, some American "Conservatives", like to pretend that, not only is Putin justified in this, but that Ukraine is the worst country on earth, maybe ever.  I seem to recall Euromaidan, I seem to recall priests were in the streets, both Greek Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, to protect their flocks.  It should be noted, that Russia seems to confuse "Pro-Russian language" with "Pro-Russia", I have talked to both Russian speaking, and ethnic Russian Ukrainians, and without exception, they consider themselves Ukrainian.  Putin knows he's lying.  

Of course, more disgusting than Putin, is the Patriarch of Moscow, of the "Pseudo Orthodox Church", as I've seen some OCA refer to him as.  I once got in trouble on a forum for calling Patriarch Kirill a "KGB agent", I was told it was "uncharitable", unsure how, as it's a matter of public record (so was Putin).  Kirill cares more about being Russian than being Christian.  He told Russian soldiers, he LIED TO THEM, and told them that their sins would be forgiven if they died in battled.  Even though they died in battle for a lie?  TRUTH matters, and somehow, someway, some (not all) American Conservatives have convinced themselves that Russia is the good guy here.  I get not liking Zelensky (Trump said he'd end the war in 24 hours, Zelensky said Biden would do it in 5 minutes, if that's the case Mr. Zelensky, why hasn't he)?  But, how does this mean Putin is the good guy, here?  Of course, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Charlie Kirk, and Tucker Carlson, while they say a lot of things that are true, have this bass ackwards, as my grandma would say.  (Stone is probably the worst offender).

Keep in mind, I am a conservative.  I understand being frustrated.  I am frustrated, too.  But, to act like someone who is extremely Pro abortion (Putin had the chance to outlaw it in 2017, he didn't), lies about a country with a Jewish president being full of Nazis (Putin presumably knows that Nazis aren't going to vote for Jewish people), and, in is being bank rolled by China (Check out who picked up the slack on Russia after sanctions, Biden should have put sactions on China, too, this means you're indirectly funding this war, i.e., remote cooperation with evil, if you're American), is somehow the Saviour of Christianity, is an absurdity.  We Christians already have a Saviour, Jesus of Nazareth.  With regards to Mr. Putin and Patriarch Kirill, or at least with Kirill, I'm not entirely convinced Putin is a Christian of any sort, I'd like to remind you of a Bible verse,  'For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light." Luke 8:17 (RSVCE) 

On the canon of the Bible

 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105)

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

These verses are from the King James Version, I wanted an excuse to use my King James Bible for Catholics Bible Walsingham Publishing - King James Bible for Catholics

Okay, so, I am not going to argue over whether or not Sola Scriptura is true.  That is a post for another time.  But, thinking about it, I think that the canon of scripture is a problem for the Protestant.  Now, I want to put a caveat, as some Protestants do use the so called "Apocrypha" such as Anglicans.  

But, ultimately, I think, if you are going to establish doctrine from the Bible, you first have to know what's in it.  One of the most common things I hear is that the Bible is self attesting.  Okay, how?  By praying and having a warm fuzzy feeling?  I can have a warm fuzzy feeling about the communist manifest, it doesn't make it true.  

I've also heard that some Protestants believe that if the New Testament quotes it, then we can accept it as scripture.  So, how many Protestants accept Enoch as scripture?  What about the books that Protestant accepts as scripture, but aren't quoted at all, or even alluded to, in the New Testament? 

I think the ultimate problem with self attestation is it's circular.  You have to already assume that you have inspired books, to know they're inspired.  I don't think that's a good way to prove it.  If only we had some sort of extrabiblical source to know which books are in the Bible.

Anyway, more, here The Canon Question and, here: Apocrypha Apocalypse