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Which Side Is God on Now?

The U.S., once the bulwark of Christianity, is moving away from it. The Communist USSR, founded by anti-Christian Jews, was known to repeat Marx, also a Jew, that religion is "the opiate of the masses." Christianity was suppressed there. Now the USSR is gone and in its place is a considerably smaller, but still the largest country in the world (in total land mass), Russia. Pat Buchanan asks whose side is God on now?

By Pat Buchanan

April 4, 2014

In his Kremlin defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.

Crimea, said Putin, "is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus."

Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying.

This speech recalls last December's address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:

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