Russia's new military Cathedral

Isn't it heretical to have a church dedicated to military purposes?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Sharath

    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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well, the Old Testament God is certainly a war God.

      • 2 years ago
        Sharath

        A war god makes war for the sake of war, but God makes war for the sake of peace. Pappa is though but fair.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No he literally says he is a war God

          • 2 years ago
            Sharath

            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.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >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.

          • 2 years ago
            Sharath

            God is not interested in blood, God wants peace, but sometimes for peace one must wage war.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Don't imagine that I came to bring peace to this world. I came not to bring peace, but a sword.

          • 2 years ago
            Sharath

            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?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >do not resist an evildoer
            Oh no christbros, we got too wienery.

          • 2 years ago
            Sharath

            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.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Fine, I'm angry against christians, do not resist me.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The West hasn't built something this beautiful and awe-inspiring in decades.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No you moron,you think it's gonna launch nukes or something?

      re-usable rockets

      >do not resist an evildoer
      Oh no christbros, we got too wienery.

      moron

      good, now you made church a military target

      moron

      Not per se, but having atheist iconography pushes it over the edge into heretical territory.

      it's iconography of the military,the red army is part of their history

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The anti-theists went largely away at the same time as Stalin's purges.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There are chapels on a lot of military bases. AFAIK they're not specially protected.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's just cathedral FOR combatants, not military object itself.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    good, now you made church a military target

  7. 2 years ago
    Dirk

    >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.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not per se, but having atheist iconography pushes it over the edge into heretical territory.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >atheist iconography
      dumbass

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >hammer and sickle
        >not related to violently anti-religious ideology
        Get fricked moron.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

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