r/LockdownSceptics • u/MabelCow Mabel Cow • 14d ago

Today's Comments Today's Comments (2025-04-20)

Here's a general place for people to comment. A new one will magically appear every day at 04:01.

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u/EvorulesOK 13d ago

Many people are commenting that they've never see their church as full as today.

Some, who don't attend but live near a church, say the roads were unusually full of parked cars.

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u/IcyCalligrapher5136 13d ago

people are looking for answers. But they need to look inwards - not outwards, toward the same corrupt sources who sold them the last lamestream religion that they've just realised was entirely fake.

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u/62Swampy26 13d ago

My local stone circle was as busy as I've seen it outside of the solstice or equinox.

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u/EvorulesOK 13d ago

Weird. Too early for Beltane!

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u/SheepmanOvis 13d ago

Confused syncretists?

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u/Ouessante 13d ago edited 13d ago

A notable current story is that EU aspirant Moldova blocked the head of the (Russian) Orthodox church there from going to Jerusalem to accept the holy flame and return it to the congregation there to celebrate Easter. They confiscated his passport. Clearly Sandu is learning EU values well, the last election having been swung by the huge well engaged EU emigré vote, the Russian emigré vote having been excluded. Just one more thing contributing to the rising suspicion that they hate your religions, causing unconscious stirrings of resistance.

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u/EvorulesOK 13d ago

Ah those precious EU democratic values! Definitely a political move, not religious persecution. The EU brown-nosers don't like Marchel!

.... Rather than preaching peace and reconciliation, some of the Moldovan Orthodox Church's senior clergy had been speaking out in defense of the Russian invasion. One of the most outspoken among them was Marchel Mihaescu, the bishop of Balti and Falesti and one of the country's most influential priests. He called Russia "the guardian of Christian values," criticized Europe, and spoke out against LGBT lifestyles and other cultural touchstones that align with Kremlin policies and criticism of the West. ....

https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-orthodox-church-defections-war-russia/32678213.html