Kirill's and Vladimir's Russia Targets Protestants?

Russia’s War on Protestant Churches
Apologetics Roadshow | 26 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGs5xt55VZg

6:59 I also view Baptists as heretical to very inadequately catechised Christians.

I'm not into bombing your churches, if you will call them that.

Russia has a kind of paranoia about the Bible and taking it literally.

Oh, surely the Orthodox take the Bible literally? Yeah, Vladimir Moss probably does. Vladimir Putin doesn't, nor do the ecclesiastics he is surrounded with, like Kirill.

Hence, a paranoia about taking the Bible literally.

7:40 I just read along the text a bit quicker than you read aloud.

The Church utilises the concept of "symphonia" ...

OK. Symphonia or in Roman Catholic terms "Christendom" or "Constantinism" or its avatars "Clovisism" and "Volodimirism" for Francia and Ukraine is rooted in Matthew 28 verse ... tada, drum roll, yes, I was right ... 19.

Symphonia makes very good sense for a situation like under the last Czar and was even then abused against Ukrainean Uniates. But under the last Czar, the minimum age for marriage was 15 / 13 (after previously having been 14 / 12, like in Roman Catholicism), and abortion was banned.

In current Russia, abortion is legal, but marrying before 18 / 18 in most regions still isn't.

Under the Czar, sodomy was legally punishable, but that was not enforced. Under Putin, homosexuality is even on that level legal, but tolerance is not fully enforced. Legalise a thing to get a category of people bullied for doing it ... (or for having an unmerited reputation, which cannot be tested since the charge isn't a criminal one).

So, the current Russian state is very much less Christian than that of the Czars.

Kirill's "symphonia" makes zero sense, and it could be a good thing to show symphonia for a Christian state (if there were one) actually opposed to Kirill's and Putin's Russia.

By "Francia" I mean what Germans call "Frankenreich" ... Germany, Switzerland, Austria, BeNeLux, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Northern Italy added to France / Frankreich.

13:24 That's interesting.

Perhaps a decade ago, I had Jay Dyer among my FB friends ...

No longer the case on either of my profiles.

He's also a kind of guy who doesn't allow a wikipedia page, despite being a public figure ...

15:33 ROCOR isn't unified now.

Some have made and some haven't made peace with Patriarchate of Moscow.

Vladimir Moss is also ROCOR, but clearly not a Putin fan. Nor a Kirill fan.

Appendix, Jay Dyer:

THIS ONE ARGUMENT ENDS PROTESTANTISM!
Jay Dyer | 8 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nikr-FF2Tk4

There is actually a refutation of Sola Scriptura in the NT.

Luke 24:27.

Now, I saw you mentioned in a video:

Russia’s War on Protestant Churches
Apologetics Roadshow | 26 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGs5xt55VZg

I commented under it, and my comments are also on this post:

Kirill's and Vladimir's Russia Targets Protestants?
Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere | Sunday, June 28, 2026
https://assortedretorts.blogspot.com/2026/06/kirills-and-vladimirs-russia-targets.html

If you wish to interact, up to you, I'll be sharing. But seriously, Protestantism isn't about Sola Scriptura, you refute it by Malachi 1:11 and Hebrews 13:10.