You know something is rotten in Denmark when Russia’s highest-level diplomat goes public with an accusation of practicing Satanism in Western governments.
There is “rampant Satanism” in certain EU member states, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has alleged, according to RT.com, citing their collusion in the Ukrainian authorities’ “blasphemous practices” at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Orthodox Christian monastery.
The Kiev regime’s persecution of Orthodox Christians is something I’ve reported on in the past, because it’s a little-understood element of the Russia-Ukraine war that I believe is pivotal to understanding the greater schism between the two countries. Yes, this war does have religious roots, just like the U.S./Israel-Iran war has religious roots.
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, RT notes that the government in Kiev has intensified its crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over allegations that it has connections to Moscow. The Ukrainian authorities have since conducted numerous raids on monasteries and locked up dozens of Orthodox Christian priests, while confiscating church properties.
At the same time, Vladimir Zelensky’s government has backed the rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which the Russian Orthodox Church considers to be a false state-sponsored church.
Lavrov, one of the most respected diplomats in the world with decades of experience representing Russia in foreign policy, took a rare opportunity Sunday to attack what he believes is the core of the West’s hatred of Russia. It’s spiritually driven, he said
Accotding RT:
Speaking at a Russian Foreign Ministry reception on Wednesday dedicated to Orthodox Easter, Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian leadership has rejected “their spiritual and civilizational roots.”
“The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been persecuted for over a decade now, with churches [forcibly] taken over, vandalized and clergy and parishioners harassed,” he said.
Particularly “outrageous and disgusting” is the Ukrainian authorities’ initiative to create an “inventory and inspect the holy relics in terms of their historical and scientific value” at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery.
According to Lavrov, the “Ukrainian Ministry of Culture used this bureaucratic formula to conceal its legalized blasphemous practices, while several European countries have turned a blind eye to these developments or even directly supported them.”
“There is rampant Satanism in these countries, too,” the Russian foreign minister concluded.
Last March, the first reports emerged of Ukrainian government officials and police forcing their way into the catacombs of what is considered the nation’s most significant monastery and the final resting place of several Orthodox Christian saints.
This is not the first time Lavrov has suggested that Satanic elements are active in the West.
Speaking in February, after the US Department of Justice released a trove of files related to convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the Russian foreign minister said the documents had “revealed the face of the West. Every normal person knows this is beyond comprehension and pure Satanism.”
Recent bizarre behavior eminating from the White House would suggest that Lavrov’s statement is right on the mark. We now have an American president who routinely makes comparisons between himself and Jesus Christ, with the full blessing of prominent evangelical pastors like Paula White, Robert Jeffress and Franklin Graham, among others.
Trump has referred to himself as “the chosen one.” He has pushed out AI images on social media dipicting himself as a divine healer dressed in a white robe and red sash like Jesus Christ.
Trump’s pastor, Paula White, prayed over him at the White House on the Wednesday before Easter and said he was “betrayed, arrested and falsely accused,” like Christ, and that he has the blessing of God on his life to the extent “that everything he touches will be a success “you will be victorious in all you put your hand to.”
But probably the most sickening thing White said in her anointing of Trump was that “because God is with you and God is using you to defeat evil, to restore families, to awaken the Church, to harvest the nations and to bring a worldwide revival.”
Does anyone really believe Trump is being used by God to “restore families, awaken the Church and harvest the nations?”
There are absolutely zero fruits coming from Trump’s leadership to this effect. This is a man who has openly stated that he believes the only thing that holds him accountable in his actions as president is his “own mind” and his “own morality.” He once confided that he does not see himself as needing any forgiveness because he doesn’t see himself as sinful. And he refused to place his hand on the Holy Bible when he was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2025.
Nothing could be more satanic, or more blasphemous, than comparing the man Donald Trump to Jesus Christ. And every Christian who has defended the comparison or dismissed it as an overblown nothing burger, is apparently living under the same satanic spell as their leader.
So, when Russia’s foreign minister looks out over the political and religious landscape of the Western powers and sees Satan at work, we shouldn’t be surprised. Does he have a valid concern? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Numerous Russian saints, philosophers and authors over the past 200+ years (actually since the fall of Constantinople in 1453) have prophesied that Russia will be the last Christian refuge in the End Times. The Church was the first thing to be restored after the fall of communism in Russia—that says a lot about where the Russian heart truly is. Over its history, Russian Church had experienced threats to its sovereignty under the Tsars, then murderous persecution during the Soviet era, But somehow it managed to survive in underground churches, in the gulags and in exile, and miraculously revive after the fall of the Soviet Union. By contrast, the Western Christianity fought among each other and divided themselves into sects endlessly, allowing secularizing forces to dominate our culture today. The Russian Church experienced schism, too, during the 17th century, but this schism never had the overwhelmingly divisive effect that schism had in the West.
The division of Orthodoxy in Ukraine had been imposed by the Western global elites and their covert operations. It is an atheistic Jewish puppet that is imposing persecution upon the true Orthodox church in Ukraine, just like it was mainly communist Jews that had persecuted Orthodoxy during the Soviet era. The Kiev Lavra (monastery) that the current regime is looting is a strong provocation of Russia. Kiev was the birthplace of Russia and that monastery can be said to be Jerusalem to the Russians.
Russia still has a long way to go to fully re-Christianize itself (communism did a lot of damage), but thankfully it does not face today the moral subversion and suppression from the State or the corporate world that the Western churches so relentlessly face. For instance, there is no Russian equivalent to Hollywood and its decadent world view, there is no cultural or State support for many of the satanic ills that are imposed on Western societies by the media, educational systems or by a corrupt satanic elite.
So it may well be that Russia is the last bastion of true Christianity. Certainly Russian Orthodoxy takes very seriously the worship of God—it is never cheapened, or modernized, or left to ignorant self-interpretation. Individual preferences never define what Christianity is and how it acts and how it relates to God, a strong tendency we find in the West, which has done nothing but further weakening Christianity in the West. Instead the Church is our guide, the threshold of heaven. The Church is the bride of Christ–a fact too often forgotten in the West.
We can learn a lot from the Russian Orthodox church that has preserved true Christianity over many centuries and through many trials. Orthodoxy itself has a depth of spirituality not matched in the West. That’s why many Americans have been joining it in our own country in such times as these.
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It cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. Dan8:12
I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.John5:43
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“Does he have a valid concern?”
Yes.
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