Russia killing and torturing Ukrainian Christians, not ‘protecting’ them. Ignore MTG.

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1. >For example, in November 2022, Russian forces in the small Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka abducted evangelical deacon Anatoliy Prokopchuk and his 19-year-old son. Days later in a nearby forest, the two were found dead with signs of torture so brutal, their friends said they were “mutilated beyond recognition,” according to the Religious Information Service of Ukraine.

   >Azat Azatyan, a Baptist children’s pastor who helps oppressed Christians flee Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, was captured by Russian security services on his 25th evacuation trip. After dragging him to a basement, where he spent the next 43 days, they put a bag over his head, handcuffed his hands to his legs and connected electrical wires to his genitals. While torturing him, Azatyan said, they “mocked me” for being a Baptist. To Russians, “Baptists are American spies,” and they “beat me so badly that they thought that I was dead.” Azatyan survived: “I truly knew that my God was with me.”

2. She is lord farquaad

3. Ignore MTG. DONE!!👍(long ago)

4. But I like playing magic the Gathering

5. MTG always confuses me for a sec and I wonder what the fuck does Magic the Gathering have to do with it?

6. The thing is that MTG loves the Russian Orthodox Church because it’s super duper conservative to the point where they’ve literally called this a holy war and said that all Christians must fight for Russia. That’s the sort of Christianity MTG loves and wants to protect, not the silly stuff about loving your neighbor and turning the other cheek.

7. Ahhh the NeoNazi Ukraine with a Jewish president that hunts down Christians. What a diverse fiction they’ve painted

8. The real question is: why is this not in mainstream media? Why is Trump’s obvious russian shilling not put full on display?

9. I just assume that whatever she’s saying is a ruZZian-fed talking point, and therefore the opposite of reality. So if she says the ruZZkies are “protecting Christians”, you can bet your ass they’re torturing and killing them.

10. Can’t we just separate politics and religion? Johnson the theocrat and orange republicans were already bad enough delaying the aid for months while Ukrainian lives lost in that time.