Isn't it heretical to have a church dedicated to military purposes?
Russia's new military Cathedral
Falling into your wing while paragliding is called 'gift wrapping' and turns you into a dirt torpedo pic.twitter.com/oQFKsVISkI
— Mental Videos (@MentalVids) March 15, 2023
Depends, if you are worshipping a war god then why not, but if your god is one of peace then maybe you should consider a renovation or a different god.
Well, the Old Testament God is certainly a war God.
A war god makes war for the sake of war, but God makes war for the sake of peace. Pappa is though but fair.
No he literally says he is a war God
No it literally says warrior, not war god.
But he is also a judge, a healer and a peacemaker, he is no dedicated war god like many of the pagan gods. God changes his apparel depending on circumstances.
>literally
Though I am dubious of your owning any books, perhaps you can find a dictionary online to help you puzzle out what's wrong here.
>Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword!
>Let him that has no sword sell his cloak and buy one
>Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms
>Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
>Together they will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemies warriors to shame.
Granted, it's a little more eloquent than 'BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!', but don't pretend it isn't there.
God is not interested in blood, God wants peace, but sometimes for peace one must wage war.
>Don't imagine that I came to bring peace to this world. I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
Its analogy, he did not bring an actual sword...
>Matthew 10:35-37
>For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
He is talking about something that severs but is not made of steel... wanna take a guess?
>do not resist an evildoer
Oh no christbros, we got too cocky.
Its better translated as 'angry person', cause everyone is an evildoer. The context is to diffuse conflict and not to incite more trouble.
The prophet is a peacemaker, you know, when he is not waging war.
Fine, I'm angry against christians, do not resist me.
It depends on what its function is.
Is it merely to baptise and preach the bible to people who happen to be soldiers? Then no since the bible has Jesus and John baptising and preaching to soldiers.
Is it to preach mostly war instead of the bible? Then yeah.
The West hasn't built something this beautiful and awe-inspiring in decades.
No you retard,you think it's gonna launch nukes or something?
re-usable rockets
retard
retard
it's iconography of the military,the red army is part of their history
>iconography of the red army
The army that was part of the apparatus used in the Communist attempt to dismantle the church, and purge Christian teachings from society. Memorializing the men who defended Russia during WW2 is admirable, but celebrating the ideology of the state at the time is misguided at best.
The anti-theists went largely away at the same time as Stalin's purges.
What about the cathedral is military? This is just a green building to me.
This is actually a complicated question because you are not supposed to target churches and other religious strucures in war, but if it used for military purposes, it is a valid target. So, what actually is that place?
There are chapels on a lot of military bases. AFAIK they're not specially protected.
It's just cathedral FOR combatants, not military object itself.
No
good, now you made church a military target
>The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ; Russian: Глaвный хpaм Boopyжённых cил Poccии (Хpaм Bocкpeceния Хpиcтoвa)) is a lavish Russian Patriarchal cathedral in honour of the Resurrection of Christ and "dedicated to the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, as well as the military feats of the Russian people in all wars", built in the Patriot Park in the Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast.
>Patriot Park (Russian: Пapк «Пaтpиoт») is a theme park in Kubinka, Russia that is themed around equipment of the Russian military.
Not per se, but having atheist iconography pushes it over the edge into heretical territory.
>atheist iconography
dumbass
>hammer and sickle
>not related to violently anti-religious ideology
Get fucked retard.
The Soviet government was officially secular, not atheist.
And the upward pointing star is a symbol of God anyways.
Just like the cross is another Sun/star symbol.