Hmmmm. Don't see any child abuse there. That must have been made up.Why? The Russian Orthodox Church gets little criticism as it is part and parcel of the Russian government, just as it was under Tzarist Russia. Though a few token prosecutions have taken off the veil: The Moscow Times - Breaking News Business Culture Multimedia from RussiaIs that an admission that you cooked up child molestation?The Catholic Church has mostly cleared its house. Can't say the same for an insular and secretive organization like the Russian Orthodox Church, which is closed to all criticism, on pain of assassination by Putin's thugs.You know that the Russian Orthodox church is different from the Roman Catholic Church don't you?Sure that the Russian Orthodox church play with little boys, and Putin worships at the same altar. Though pretty sure Putin isn't gay.
It is to the Russian credit that when communism fell the first thing of Russian culture to be restored was the church.
Now the US is the Godless and soulless country we accused Russia of being.
As for the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, it was a brutal and repressive tool of the Tzarist regime
that kept down the serfs and silenced voices for change and democracy in Russia.
Later, under the USSR, while it was persecuted, it still played a role in supporting the government to silence dissent.
Russian will only become a democratic and free county, when it cuts the ties between church, state, and security interests, which currently crush all dissent in Russia just like under the Tzar.
Russia is more of a free country than we are. I don't see Russians being force fed by the gay mafia.