{"id":8153,"date":"2020-06-01T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T21:47:28","slug":"god-as-a-set-of-moral-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"God as a &#8220;set of moral values&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we have been suspecting all along, the MP have reduced God to a &#8220;set of moral values and ideals&#8221;. Consequently they can now boldly claim that &#8220;the Soviet Union was based on a Christian moral paradigm&#8221;. No wonder the mission of the church had to be perverted to declare social causes as the primary objectives of Christianity &#8230; the result is whitewashing, re-branding and repackaging of a new &#8220;spiritualized&#8221; form of communism &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the old communist goal was <strong><em>&#8220;to free man from capitalist exploitation&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, now there is a new cause: <strong><em>&#8220;the liberation of man from under the rule of the satanic western societies&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20160525\/1439347404.html\">https:\/\/ria.ru\/20160525\/1439347404.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Quote: <strong><em>&#8220;The communist authorities of the Soviet Union did not dare to \u201cblow up the moral foundation of society,\u201d which, in his words, generally remained Christian. \u201cIt saved us: our literature, visual arts were imbued with Christian ideas, and the moral of the people remained Christian&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course the communists did not &#8220;\u201cblow up the moral foundation of society&#8221;, they came to give a new moral foundation to society &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, the tune between political and religious &#8220;high places&#8221; is identical &#8230; Mr Putin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI have always liked communist and socialist ideas. If we consider the <strong><em>Code of the Builder of Communism that was widely published in the Soviet Union, it strongly resembles the Bible. This is not a joke; it was actually an excerpt from the Bible. It spoke of good things: equality, fraternity, happiness. However, the practical implementation of these ideals in this country had little in common with what the utopian socialists Saint-Simon or Owen spoke about. This country had little resemblance to their Sun City.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/51206\">http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/51206<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have been suspecting all along, the MP have reduced God to a &#8220;set of moral values and ideals&#8221;. Consequently they can now boldly claim that &#8220;the Soviet Union was based on a Christian moral paradigm&#8221;. No wonder the mission of the church had to be perverted to declare social causes as the primary &#8230; <a title=\"God as a &#8220;set of moral values&#8221;?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=8153\" aria-label=\"Read more about God as a &#8220;set of moral values&#8221;?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}