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I know a few ocean-going hand wringers when it comes to the whole “embracing diversity” thing, but not one of them would ever come close to condoning rape for any reason. If this was an attempt at satire it was in poor taste and fell very flat indeed. Though I hope that’s what it was because if you were serious, it’s quite insulting. |
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aah hell with it, I wrote a post explaining but may as well bang my head against the wall . . . carry on while I go do something else :(
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Just look at the cases in this country of sexual abuse and the "gangs" that did it. It wasn't anything against their culture, it was/is acceptable then and now. There is no such thing as "we are all the same" because we are not, it would be nice if were. Past history of any Country forms the culture and by extention their view of what civilisation is. |
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Russian culture is pretty Western anyway, isn't it? Similar historical influences, majority Christian. A lot of their music and literature influenced Western Europe and vice versa. Before the first world war and the Russian revolution there were a lot of mixing of European and Russian elites and artists.
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Fair enough. I always kinda thought of Russia as a tangent of Western culture.
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As Christianity spread north to the lands now identified with Russia from the eastern Roman Empire, the cultural influences were Byzantine, not Roman (even when the east was fully incorporated in the empire there were differences). In an effort to promote learning, especially of their religion, early missionaries devised a script for them which was based on Greek, as this was their language. Notably, not Latin. Language and even the way languages are written can isolate one culture from another. Had the land been evangelised by Roman clerics rather than Byzantine ones things might have been very different. ---------- Post added at 20:30 ---------- Previous post was at 20:25 ---------- Quote:
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Church history is next year but one cause of divide between the Eastern and Western churches was over a small change to a creed. The western churches wanted to amend a clause about The Holy Spirit - "from The Father" to "from The Father and The Son". The filioque clause.
The issue to the eastern churches was not so much the theology but that the change was to be imposed by the pope without consultation. |
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However it is of minimal significance to the wider reasons for differences in Russian culture from the rest of Europe. That has far more to do with Western Europe’s easy ability to transmit ideas right up to the renaissance period in Latin, because this had been enforced as the ecclesial language across western Christianity. It was not the official language in the east, which actually didn’t have one single language at all. In some places Koine Greek (the language the New Testament was actually written in) persisted, but in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Church Slavonic was the ecclesial language. |
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Nuclear weapons likely to be used? Such piffle.:rolleyes:
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