Border Security: On The Walls We Build To Protect Ourselves

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My inquisitive, conservative readership, asking tough and deeply

uncomfortable questions, about fair, blonde, blue-eyed Ukrainians,

in light of illegal aliens abducting and attacking American citizens.

Deeply Uncomfortable Situations

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Having My Theological Credentials & Qualifications,

As An Orthodox Blogger & Apologist, Called Into Question

Republican Idols

Exodus 15:3

The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

Genesis 1:26~27

And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.

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Since leadership required killing people, why won't republicans arm Ukraine's leadership ?

I need ammunition, not a ride.

Vladimir Zelensky

From The Dnieper River, To The Black Sea, Ukraine Will Be Free !

Wherever the (Russian) sun doth shine,
there's always (s)laughter, and good red wine.

Hilaire Belloc

Orthodox Christianity: Mortally Wounding Its Opponents Since 363 AD

Saint Basil the Great, whose feast is celebrated on New Year's Day, once prayed before an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, upon which Saint Mercurius was depicted as a soldier holding a spear.

He asked God not to permit the emperor Julian the Apostate to return from his war against the Persians and resume his oppression of Christians. The image of the holy Great Martyr Mercurius, depicted on the icon beside the image of the Most Holy Theotokos, became invisible. It reappeared later with a bloodied spear.

At this very moment Julian the Apostate, on his Persian campaign, was wounded by the spear of an unknown soldier, who immediately disappeared. The mortally wounded Julian, as he lay dying, cried out, “Thou hast conquered, O Galilean !”

A Life In Ruins

Beauty Will Save The World




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On God's Involvement In The Big Bang

Hypothetically speaking, of course...

Prayer For Protection Against Invaders

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Amen.


Securing Ukraine's existence, and a future for its children.

Revelation
16:6 They have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

17:6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

18:24 In her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Running Russia

...into the ground.

A Putrid Christmas, And A Rotten New Year !

Like a second Herod, Putin the Pious saw fit to brutally mock and viciously destroy an entire country, by drowning it in senseless bloodshed and unspeakable violence, smearing it with the stench of death and despair, defiling it with the dismembered and decomposing corpses of its defenseless women and innocent children, whose lost lives and shattered limbs, as globes and tinsel upon Christmas trees, now adorn its once beautiful landscape.

Prayer For The Ukraine

Arise, O Lord, and judge thine own cause ! Incline thine ears to our prayers !

For foxes have arisen, seeking to destroy the vineyard, whose winepress thou alone hast trod.
The wild boar from the forest seeketh to destroy it, and every wild beast feedeth upon it.

Pope Leo the Tenth, Exsurge, Domine

The One True Faith

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Saint Vladimir of the Ladder

Innocence Interrupted

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The Fine Line Between Observer And Collaborator

People like to wash their hands of the violence. But we all wash our hands in blood.

In This Sign, Conquer

Psalm 151
1 I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father's house. 5 My brothers were great and handsome; but the Lord was not pleased with them. 6 I went forth to meet the Philistine; and he cursed me by his idols. 7 But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.


Troparion of the Holy Cross
Lord, save Your people and bless Your inheritance, granting our rulers to prevail over adversaries, and protecting Your commonwealth by Your cross.

On (Dis)Honoring One's Parents

The throne of Kiev held a dominant position in Ancient Rus. This had been the custom since the late ninth century. The Tale of Bygone Years captured for posterity the words of Oleg the Prophet about Kiev: May it be the mother of all Russian cities.

Vladimir Putin,
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them; 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying: Honour thy father and mother; and: He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Mark 7:10 For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother; and: Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.