Lukashenko: if we lose Christian values – we lose everything
Minsk, June 3, Interfax – Byelorussian President Alexander Lukashenko says it is inadmissible to rule Christian values out of people’s lives.
“Today we should be united as never before as there is a serious strike made against the most important thing that have always united us and brought us up. It is a strike against the foundation, on which we based our lives, against Christian values,” the President said at a meeting with participants in the European Orthodox-Catholic Forum.
“We should stand for Christian values, whatever it costs. If we lose them, we lose everything,” the head of the state said.
He assures that Byelorussians have always been and will be one of the basic cores in the foundation of Christianity as these values are in the foundation of country’s development.
So it’s o.k. to have capital punishment, rig elections, imprison and torture political opponents, suppress the rule of law and any semblance of an independent judiciary, and run a population under the terror of the KGB – that’s “Christian Values”. Is that what Orthodoxy is about?