I got narrative but isn’t Jan 7 is orthodox thing not Russia/soviet thing. I mean, I don’t care how people celebrate their imaginary friends but it just weird

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

The ROC [Russian Orthodox Church] currently claims exclusive jurisdiction over the Eastern Orthodox Christians, irrespective of their ethnic background, who reside in the former member republics of the Soviet Union, excluding Georgia.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church

Politics and religion have always been one and the same: the reason there are two creation myths in Genesis (and many other duplicate tales) is because authors from both Israel and Judea wrote them, often with the aim of elevating their interpretation of Yahweh/El and lowering the importance of the other kingdom. We have Protestantism because an English king got pissy.

This is no different. The Russian church claims dominion over Kiev and they are rejecting that, much moreso than they have in previous years. The ROC is acting as one more arm of the Kremlin and trying to use religion to spread influence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do Ukrainians generally subscribe to Russian Orthodox specifically? My 20 seconds of Wikipedia seem to indicate that the "Orthodox Vatican" is in Turkey so it's not like any holy whatever is owned by Russia? I obviously have no clue what I'm talking about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are different patriachs in Orthodoxy. A tradition dating from the Roman empire. Our pope is basically the patriach of Italy. Now as you can imagine the patriach of Constantinopole, the capital of the empire at that time, has special status. But it's just that. In practice, each patriach rules over their geographic zone.

Quite stoned, hope this makes sense.

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