to be fair here banning the Russian church for racial reasons is in fact repressive and shitty but also fuck Tucker Carlson
It kind of is as it is arresting and punishing people for their subtype of Christian faith. You can’t just expect Russian orthodoxes to switch church to another one anymore than the British could just expect the Irish to switch from Catholicism to Protestantism
Orthodox Christianity is fuckin whack and weird anyways with how the Patriarchs interfere with country politics. We need to resurrect Lenin to sort the whole thing out :lenin-crush-capitalism:
This actually kind of happened in this case though. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate basically collapsed with the war, and people just moved to the Ukrainian Patriarchate. Same church essentially, just different leadership. The UOC-MP was very small, immediately prior to being banned.
