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		<title>By: Don</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Opened Eyes,
I think you are talking to me but el nasrani knows even more about Europe since He lives there and is quite the political scientist.

1. I have wrote on this topic as well but I cannot tell you exactly in what post. Some of what I wrote could be under the Roman Empire, Islam, or Islamofascism categories that you will find on the sidebar. I also have wrote some thing on my other blog under &quot;Europe&quot; or &quot;Britain&quot;

Basically I say the people of Europe will only appease Islam so far and then there will be a right wing backlash.  It really has already begun in some areas but it is limited. The coming civil unrest in Europe just might be what brings the Antichrist figure to power. 

Think of the natives rounding up Muslims this time instead of Jews, it likely will get very bloody. Of course something will be the catalyst first, perhaps a WMD attack on a European city, a wider war with Islam, or riots or even all of the above. I simply do not see Europe going Islamic. Native Europeans are not going to embrace bondage to any religion. What you are seeing now is Liberal appeasement and their putting their head in the sand hoping that if they appease the Muslims and ignore the demographic and religious freak control problems it will go away. It won&#039;t, and they will be forced to face that fact fairly soon.

The ultimate answer after the religious turmoil will be to only allow pluralist universal all-ways-to-God with no proselytizing. They will outlaw and attempt to rip out fundamental beliefs in all religions in the name of world peace. That will bring in the Revelation Harlot.

2. Spreading Christianity is never pointless and I think the Eastern European Union is more open to real Christianity then the Old Western block that now just sees it as a culture. No matter where you go some will always hear and be saved so don&#039;t let anything I say stop you. Democracy is another issue. I do not see much future for true democratic Republics in Europe but there is more hope for them in the liberated Eastern countries than in the Old Western block.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Opened Eyes,<br />
I think you are talking to me but el nasrani knows even more about Europe since He lives there and is quite the political scientist.</p>
<p>1. I have wrote on this topic as well but I cannot tell you exactly in what post. Some of what I wrote could be under the Roman Empire, Islam, or Islamofascism categories that you will find on the sidebar. I also have wrote some thing on my other blog under &#8220;Europe&#8221; or &#8220;Britain&#8221;</p>
<p>Basically I say the people of Europe will only appease Islam so far and then there will be a right wing backlash.  It really has already begun in some areas but it is limited. The coming civil unrest in Europe just might be what brings the Antichrist figure to power. </p>
<p>Think of the natives rounding up Muslims this time instead of Jews, it likely will get very bloody. Of course something will be the catalyst first, perhaps a WMD attack on a European city, a wider war with Islam, or riots or even all of the above. I simply do not see Europe going Islamic. Native Europeans are not going to embrace bondage to any religion. What you are seeing now is Liberal appeasement and their putting their head in the sand hoping that if they appease the Muslims and ignore the demographic and religious freak control problems it will go away. It won&#8217;t, and they will be forced to face that fact fairly soon.</p>
<p>The ultimate answer after the religious turmoil will be to only allow pluralist universal all-ways-to-God with no proselytizing. They will outlaw and attempt to rip out fundamental beliefs in all religions in the name of world peace. That will bring in the Revelation Harlot.</p>
<p>2. Spreading Christianity is never pointless and I think the Eastern European Union is more open to real Christianity then the Old Western block that now just sees it as a culture. No matter where you go some will always hear and be saved so don&#8217;t let anything I say stop you. Democracy is another issue. I do not see much future for true democratic Republics in Europe but there is more hope for them in the liberated Eastern countries than in the Old Western block.</p>
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		<title>By: Opened Eyes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Opened Eyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read many of your articles and I must say they were excellent. But I still have a couple of questions.  1) What do you make of the demographic crisis in Europe? Their militaries and personnel are a joke.  Muslims and third-world immigrants in Europe are rapidly growing in number while the Europeans are literally going extinct in most of Europe.  (UK, France, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Norway, etc.) So how could Europe possibly have the wherewithall to be the &quot;evil empire&quot; that many prophecy teachers claim?

2) After reading these articles, they somewhat dissuaded me from traveling to parts of the European Union to promote Christianity and democratic patriotism as opposed to socialism and athiesm.  It now seems pointless to do anything.  Your thoughts?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read many of your articles and I must say they were excellent. But I still have a couple of questions.  1) What do you make of the demographic crisis in Europe? Their militaries and personnel are a joke.  Muslims and third-world immigrants in Europe are rapidly growing in number while the Europeans are literally going extinct in most of Europe.  (UK, France, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Norway, etc.) So how could Europe possibly have the wherewithall to be the &#8220;evil empire&#8221; that many prophecy teachers claim?</p>
<p>2) After reading these articles, they somewhat dissuaded me from traveling to parts of the European Union to promote Christianity and democratic patriotism as opposed to socialism and athiesm.  It now seems pointless to do anything.  Your thoughts?</p>
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		<title>By: el nasrani</title>
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		<dc:creator>el nasrani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>May I suggest you move over to Western Europe and see how you like it here (yeah, I&#039;m European). We don&#039;t have Mexicans here; we have something better. Everybody&#039;s talking about it these days. 

As for Russian white supremacism, support for Fascist policies, abortion and all of the above arguments I have used, check out the Wikipedia entry on Russian political parties, for starters. Then I suggest you ask some Ukrainians and the Poles what they think of Russia. In fact if you really wish to move to Eastern Europe, I&#039;d recommend Poland rather than Russia. At least they&#039;re not brainless sheep that blindly follow the leader, and many of them do seem to take their faith seriously. 

From what you have been writing here, frankly, I do not get the impression you have actually taken much time to educate yourself thoroughly on Russia yet you assert that it&#039;s so much better over there. I&#039;m afraid your frustration with the U.S. (or its negative sides) have clouded your judgement. Sorry, I&#039;m not going to keep repeating myself, I have better things to do. If you want to discuss an issue I think you should first do your research.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>May I suggest you move over to Western Europe and see how you like it here (yeah, I&#8217;m European). We don&#8217;t have Mexicans here; we have something better. Everybody&#8217;s talking about it these days. </p>
<p>As for Russian white supremacism, support for Fascist policies, abortion and all of the above arguments I have used, check out the Wikipedia entry on Russian political parties, for starters. Then I suggest you ask some Ukrainians and the Poles what they think of Russia. In fact if you really wish to move to Eastern Europe, I&#8217;d recommend Poland rather than Russia. At least they&#8217;re not brainless sheep that blindly follow the leader, and many of them do seem to take their faith seriously. </p>
<p>From what you have been writing here, frankly, I do not get the impression you have actually taken much time to educate yourself thoroughly on Russia yet you assert that it&#8217;s so much better over there. I&#8217;m afraid your frustration with the U.S. (or its negative sides) have clouded your judgement. Sorry, I&#8217;m not going to keep repeating myself, I have better things to do. If you want to discuss an issue I think you should first do your research.</p>
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		<title>By: Don</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Opened Eyes you really need to open your eyes and read what this post is about. I am not contrasting the  Christianity of Russia with the Christianity of the West. I know the West is a mess. I write about it quite often on this Blog and on my other Blog. Neither is this post saying the Russian people are in any way inferior to the West. We have our own thugs and KGB. We just call them Liberals. Ouch!

Anyway, the post is about how Russia has again started the rise to become a superpower and a counter force to the West. Russia will ally with the Islamic nations of the Middle East and be a nuclear guard for them and this will eventually fulfill the Ezekiel 38 and 39 prophecy (I believe that event to be almost twenty years down the line).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Opened Eyes you really need to open your eyes and read what this post is about. I am not contrasting the  Christianity of Russia with the Christianity of the West. I know the West is a mess. I write about it quite often on this Blog and on my other Blog. Neither is this post saying the Russian people are in any way inferior to the West. We have our own thugs and KGB. We just call them Liberals. Ouch!</p>
<p>Anyway, the post is about how Russia has again started the rise to become a superpower and a counter force to the West. Russia will ally with the Islamic nations of the Middle East and be a nuclear guard for them and this will eventually fulfill the Ezekiel 38 and 39 prophecy (I believe that event to be almost twenty years down the line).</p>
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		<title>By: Opened Eyes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Opened Eyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On another note, why wouldn&#039;t having another super-power be a good thing? The US Gov is certainly not pro-Christian.  It has tentacles in more countries and organizations than anything else.  I used to be rabidly &quot;pro Americana&quot;, the &quot;US can&#039;t do anything wrong&quot;, &quot;rah, rah, rah!&quot;.  But when you step back and seek the truth rather than emotional gratification you realize the US Gov is no friend to Christians or the average American. The US Gov could care less if US citizens are being gunned down by Mexican paramilitary gangs operating in the US.  Look at US schools, they&#039;re an absolute disaster.  Any dunce can come up with a curriculum that outclasses what beaurocrats are doing.  What about watching out for jobs for Americans instead of giving them to cheap immigrant labor or shipping them over overseas?  Hollywood&#039;s movies, music and TV is what much of the world watches.  Hollywood pollutes the world. My point is, the folks in DC dont&#039; care about Joe Sixpack. As far as they&#039;re concerned the US is nothing more than an economic zone.  So why vicerally support any US action without first evaluating it with a critical eye?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On another note, why wouldn&#8217;t having another super-power be a good thing? The US Gov is certainly not pro-Christian.  It has tentacles in more countries and organizations than anything else.  I used to be rabidly &#8220;pro Americana&#8221;, the &#8220;US can&#8217;t do anything wrong&#8221;, &#8220;rah, rah, rah!&#8221;.  But when you step back and seek the truth rather than emotional gratification you realize the US Gov is no friend to Christians or the average American. The US Gov could care less if US citizens are being gunned down by Mexican paramilitary gangs operating in the US.  Look at US schools, they&#8217;re an absolute disaster.  Any dunce can come up with a curriculum that outclasses what beaurocrats are doing.  What about watching out for jobs for Americans instead of giving them to cheap immigrant labor or shipping them over overseas?  Hollywood&#8217;s movies, music and TV is what much of the world watches.  Hollywood pollutes the world. My point is, the folks in DC dont&#8217; care about Joe Sixpack. As far as they&#8217;re concerned the US is nothing more than an economic zone.  So why vicerally support any US action without first evaluating it with a critical eye?</p>
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		<title>By: Opened Eyes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Opened Eyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You keep bringing up that Russia has a &quot;white supremacist&quot; streak in it.  Where do you get that idea from?  At the same time, if Russia doesn&#039;t belong to the Russian people, then who does it belong to?  Citibank? Washington Mutual? The United Nations?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You keep bringing up that Russia has a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; streak in it.  Where do you get that idea from?  At the same time, if Russia doesn&#8217;t belong to the Russian people, then who does it belong to?  Citibank? Washington Mutual? The United Nations?</p>
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		<title>By: el nasrani</title>
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		<dc:creator>el nasrani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Opened Eyes,

I think you got me wrong. I know some people always feel this need to drag Hitler and Nazi into every political discussion. It&#039;s cliche and simplistic, I know, and it irritates me too. However, I did not intend to call Putin a modern-day Hitler. I didn&#039;t say Russians are Nazis and I do not believe Putin is a Nazi. I used Nazi Germany, Communist China, North Korea and even liberal democratic Spain as examples to illustrate that Russia&#039;s apparent social conservatism is merely a facade. I believe it would be a mistake to think that any nation&#039;s foreign policy must better than that of another merely because its local culture and customs *seem* socially conservative. I do say *seem*, because with abortion, atheism, authoritarianism, antisemitism and white supremacism, frankly, Russia is not my idea of a Christian society.

Moreover, I bet Georgia is just as socially conservative as Russia is, and its people are nice also. And Orthodox... As I have indicated in many other comments of mine on the issue of Russia before, I believe Russia is merely trying to re-establish itself as a superpower as it used to be during the days of the Czar, and under Sovietism. I personally knew a young immigrant from Kazakhstan (former USSR member) who spoke Russian and was very pro-Putin. He wanted to see Russia &quot;restored&quot; and told me the majority of the Russian people want a strong leader and, in fact, they long for the return of a Czar. Is that wrong? I tend to support a people&#039;s self-determination and as far as I&#039;m concerned, they can have a Czar and all that but quite frankly I don&#039;t like the whole idea, I don&#039;t sympathize with it and don&#039;t believe that Russia is the underdog. 

Don&#039;t get me wrong - I fully understand your position. I used to think like you do. I&#039;m fed up with Western decadence, just like you. I guess like every born again Christian here. I too believe that sometimes we need to balance our views of other peoples. I don&#039;t see the Russians, Arab or Iranian people as inferior, for instance. However, I frankly do believe that their religion and way of government is. I know it&#039;s tempting to support nations or cultures (been there myself) that seem more conservative on the surface out of frustration with this re-invented &quot;Western&quot; culture of today. But I believe you need to look at all things in perspective and put things in their appropriate historical context. Rather than supporting a different culture, we should, I believe, support the restoration of true Western civilization - the one that stood for the advancement of individual freedom and Christian virtues.

God bless!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Opened Eyes,</p>
<p>I think you got me wrong. I know some people always feel this need to drag Hitler and Nazi into every political discussion. It&#8217;s cliche and simplistic, I know, and it irritates me too. However, I did not intend to call Putin a modern-day Hitler. I didn&#8217;t say Russians are Nazis and I do not believe Putin is a Nazi. I used Nazi Germany, Communist China, North Korea and even liberal democratic Spain as examples to illustrate that Russia&#8217;s apparent social conservatism is merely a facade. I believe it would be a mistake to think that any nation&#8217;s foreign policy must better than that of another merely because its local culture and customs *seem* socially conservative. I do say *seem*, because with abortion, atheism, authoritarianism, antisemitism and white supremacism, frankly, Russia is not my idea of a Christian society.</p>
<p>Moreover, I bet Georgia is just as socially conservative as Russia is, and its people are nice also. And Orthodox&#8230; As I have indicated in many other comments of mine on the issue of Russia before, I believe Russia is merely trying to re-establish itself as a superpower as it used to be during the days of the Czar, and under Sovietism. I personally knew a young immigrant from Kazakhstan (former USSR member) who spoke Russian and was very pro-Putin. He wanted to see Russia &#8220;restored&#8221; and told me the majority of the Russian people want a strong leader and, in fact, they long for the return of a Czar. Is that wrong? I tend to support a people&#8217;s self-determination and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, they can have a Czar and all that but quite frankly I don&#8217;t like the whole idea, I don&#8217;t sympathize with it and don&#8217;t believe that Russia is the underdog. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I fully understand your position. I used to think like you do. I&#8217;m fed up with Western decadence, just like you. I guess like every born again Christian here. I too believe that sometimes we need to balance our views of other peoples. I don&#8217;t see the Russians, Arab or Iranian people as inferior, for instance. However, I frankly do believe that their religion and way of government is. I know it&#8217;s tempting to support nations or cultures (been there myself) that seem more conservative on the surface out of frustration with this re-invented &#8220;Western&#8221; culture of today. But I believe you need to look at all things in perspective and put things in their appropriate historical context. Rather than supporting a different culture, we should, I believe, support the restoration of true Western civilization &#8211; the one that stood for the advancement of individual freedom and Christian virtues.</p>
<p>God bless!</p>
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		<title>By: Opened Eyes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Opened Eyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How full are the Churches in Russia?  I do not know.  At the same time, even though many American Churches are filled up, you can by no means proclaim America a Christian nation.  The stats clearly show divorce, abortion, and all sorts of other problems are virtually identical to non-Christians. Many Christian churches in the inner city are really nothing more than identity politics clubs.  This I know firsthand.  Many pastors are involved in unsavory activity.  We all know this.  I do not point this out to demoralize.  The point I&#039;m making is that to attribute American style Christianity good and Russian style Christianity bad is erroneous. I have read up on some Russian Orthodox teachings.  While I do not agree with some of their points, like the some of the Catholic churche&#039;s it&#039;s quite apparent that living a sin-free, holy life devoted to God is extremely important to them.  That&#039;s what many of their prayers are about (read their prayers) living a life free from sin.  Contrast that to US Christianity which treats God as a genie.  By the way, I used to subscribe to that mode of thought too but in my business circles I realized lots of non-Christians I competed against were more successful than me even though I did lots of these &quot;prosperity things&quot;. The issue came down to who acquired more knowledge, worked hardest and had more skills or contacts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How full are the Churches in Russia?  I do not know.  At the same time, even though many American Churches are filled up, you can by no means proclaim America a Christian nation.  The stats clearly show divorce, abortion, and all sorts of other problems are virtually identical to non-Christians. Many Christian churches in the inner city are really nothing more than identity politics clubs.  This I know firsthand.  Many pastors are involved in unsavory activity.  We all know this.  I do not point this out to demoralize.  The point I&#8217;m making is that to attribute American style Christianity good and Russian style Christianity bad is erroneous. I have read up on some Russian Orthodox teachings.  While I do not agree with some of their points, like the some of the Catholic churche&#8217;s it&#8217;s quite apparent that living a sin-free, holy life devoted to God is extremely important to them.  That&#8217;s what many of their prayers are about (read their prayers) living a life free from sin.  Contrast that to US Christianity which treats God as a genie.  By the way, I used to subscribe to that mode of thought too but in my business circles I realized lots of non-Christians I competed against were more successful than me even though I did lots of these &#8220;prosperity things&#8221;. The issue came down to who acquired more knowledge, worked hardest and had more skills or contacts.</p>
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		<title>By: Opened Eyes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Opened Eyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To El Nasrani,

Yes I do not believe government is the answer. Christ is the only hope we have. At the same time when a gov outright promotes the Church vs one that doesn&#039;t, that&#039;s gotta tell you something. 

You can&#039;t sum up the current Russian population by describing what past evil leaders did. Every nation has that. A pet peave of mine is it seems someone always has to toss out &quot;Hitler&quot; or &quot;Nazi&quot; when talking politics.  Equating Putin with such things is juvenile.  For Putin to look out for the Russian people and promote more Russians and to build Russia up is a normal, good healthy thing.  Is it really Christian to secretly wish for the genocide of Russians or displacement of them?  

No it&#039;s not. You know it was 2 years ago that I used to hate the Russians.  I started evaluating things and realized that the folks in DC dont&#039; care about the average American.  I started realizing that Russians aren&#039;t these frothing at the mouth freaks the media makes them out to be. I&#039;ve met Russians in Europe and the ones I met were extremely kind.  The kind of people you&#039;d want for neighbors. As a father, to govern objectively, you have to evaluate both points of view when two kids are arguing.  You can&#039;t immediately take sides. 

I&#039;m a truth seeker. And so I try to look at things objectively.  Russia is not this boogeyman that people make her out to be. Look, when you have NATO and the folks in DC surrounding Russia with military weapons, plus aerial bomber flights, satellite survelliance and espionage and sabotage going on against Russia, how can you not expect Russians to be alarmed? How can you not expect them to do frowned upon things like try to resist US Gov control in the Middle East?

It appears to me that the US gov is pushing Russia, constantly poking her with a stick, threatening her. The Russian people aren&#039;t as meek and docile as say Swedes are.  So if you keep pushing, they&#039;re gonna react.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To El Nasrani,</p>
<p>Yes I do not believe government is the answer. Christ is the only hope we have. At the same time when a gov outright promotes the Church vs one that doesn&#8217;t, that&#8217;s gotta tell you something. </p>
<p>You can&#8217;t sum up the current Russian population by describing what past evil leaders did. Every nation has that. A pet peave of mine is it seems someone always has to toss out &#8220;Hitler&#8221; or &#8220;Nazi&#8221; when talking politics.  Equating Putin with such things is juvenile.  For Putin to look out for the Russian people and promote more Russians and to build Russia up is a normal, good healthy thing.  Is it really Christian to secretly wish for the genocide of Russians or displacement of them?  </p>
<p>No it&#8217;s not. You know it was 2 years ago that I used to hate the Russians.  I started evaluating things and realized that the folks in DC dont&#8217; care about the average American.  I started realizing that Russians aren&#8217;t these frothing at the mouth freaks the media makes them out to be. I&#8217;ve met Russians in Europe and the ones I met were extremely kind.  The kind of people you&#8217;d want for neighbors. As a father, to govern objectively, you have to evaluate both points of view when two kids are arguing.  You can&#8217;t immediately take sides. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m a truth seeker. And so I try to look at things objectively.  Russia is not this boogeyman that people make her out to be. Look, when you have NATO and the folks in DC surrounding Russia with military weapons, plus aerial bomber flights, satellite survelliance and espionage and sabotage going on against Russia, how can you not expect Russians to be alarmed? How can you not expect them to do frowned upon things like try to resist US Gov control in the Middle East?</p>
<p>It appears to me that the US gov is pushing Russia, constantly poking her with a stick, threatening her. The Russian people aren&#8217;t as meek and docile as say Swedes are.  So if you keep pushing, they&#8217;re gonna react.</p>
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		<description>Great comments el nasrani.

Are the churches nearly empty like in Europe or full every week? Are there many young people in the churches or are they full of old ladies. From this you can tell the health of the Russian Orthodox Church. In any case, do a study of Russian Orthodox beliefs. I do not believe their salvation theology is in the Orthodoxy of the Christian faith even if they call themselves Orthodox.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great comments el nasrani.</p>
<p>Are the churches nearly empty like in Europe or full every week? Are there many young people in the churches or are they full of old ladies. From this you can tell the health of the Russian Orthodox Church. In any case, do a study of Russian Orthodox beliefs. I do not believe their salvation theology is in the Orthodoxy of the Christian faith even if they call themselves Orthodox.</p>
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