This sort of language – from a supposed political scientist, no less – has to make every serious agnostic and atheist squirm:
Deputy of the State Duma Vyacheslav Nikonov (a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov) claimed: “In the modern world, we are the embodiment of the forces of good. This is a metaphysical clash between the forces of good and evil… This is truly a holy war we're waging and we must win.” pic.twitter.com/B8C7ILH1O8
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 17, 2022
Marrying this massively unjust war with the language of holy wars, well, it certainly pulls into focus a horrendous and tragic depopulation event.
And after that? A population that is convinced it should have won, a capering cleric, such as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, or evangelical Paula White who’ll find a way to explain their terrible loss in terms that doesn’t involve a wretched self-examination of the terrors of living under the metaphorical, if not actual, theocratic regime.
