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Or Macron will send troops and the warmongering Baltic states will urge NATO on right into total war.
Nuclear drills.
New York Times:
NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war.7 days ago
Stockpiling for war?
Last year the testing of an alert signal on all our phones; this year survivalist stocking of goods. Nothing explicit, but war “preparedness” likelier than “covid/pandemic” preparedness, which has no need of these type of alarms.https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/1902893/Everyone-ordered-7-Tesco-Asda-Sainsburys-Morrisons
Lithuania wants Washington to lift restrictions on long-range missiles to Ukraine which could strike deep inside Russia.
The first recorded conscientious objector.
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-maximilian/
A new front likely to open?
” In a bid to give this rather esoteric thread some contemporary relevance here’s something that suggests pSt George might be a figure to slay the dragon that is Israel.”
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Yes, it’s often forgotten that the Palestinians include Orthodox Christians, and indeed JEWS !(native, Palestinian, Jews)” But it’s best not to claim something that can’t be solidly backed up.
Apparently in a footnote Gibbon says: “this transformation is not given as absolutely certain, but as extremely probable” if you can check. I have discovered that it’s not a copy of his whole book that I have but only a couple of chapters published by the Rationalist Press Association as “Gibbon on Christianity”.”
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Which is the very book i have just finished reading today and is in front of me as i type.
I don’t think Gibbon would pop at Christianity in that way, with false statements that would have earned him ridicule in Christian England and abroad.
And i am not aware of any contemporaries refuting him on a figure like St.George, the symbol of that genus of imbecile, the patriot.Gibbon wasn’t a fool. He knew his subject and he knew the difference between Arians and Athanasians. He knew George was an Arian bishop. So why would he identify him as St. George? Especially if the Church already had a St. George of Lydda and claimed that one as their saint?
Constantine is today an orthodox saint on both sides of the 1054 schism, but he was an Arian, and was baptised by the Arian Eusebius.
This is another misconception: canonisation.
Since the Roman papacy took hold of independence in 1054, the popes have formally made saints. Before then, sainthood was informal and local and came about through local devotion.
I’m saying that George of Cappadocia, championed by the majority of the day which was Arian, was probably already a saint among them, just as Athanasius was among the opposing sect.
A tradition of ol’ George’s holiness would have become too established to openly attack, so Gelasius maybe invented another personality for him, an “orthodox” soldier of a century earlier, supposedly martyred by Diocletian’s men.
