#he didn’t like Islam bc he said drinking was part of being Russian
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WAIT TILL YALL HEAR ABOUT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH- my favourite fact abt Russia is that the only reason they’re orthodox is bc in 988 knaz Vladimir deemed orthodox churches more beautiful than catholic (and also political reasons)
One of my favorite things about the difference between Protestant denominations and Catholicism is that Protestants made their whole thing being So Fucking Boring(tm) and normal that if you were raised around Protestants with little to no connection to the Catholic Church when you find out about all the saints and rituals and bones and shit it genuinely comes off as a little like...pagan isn't the right word exactly but you know what I mean? Like for my entire life good Christians sat on folding chairs in a beige basement eating shitty donuts from Albertsons and told me liking Pokemon and Halloween made me a sinner and then I go to see an old Catholic church and there's just like. A fucking ancient corpse in the room?? That everyone is praying over??? Like????? And THIS is actually the religion all the "Pokemon normalizes devil worship" guys originally came from several hundred years ago??????
It's wild okay. It's just wild.
#he sent a bunch of messengers to check out other countries religions#bc he wanted to unite the pagans somehow#he didn’t like Islam bc he said drinking was part of being Russian#that aged badly#he didn’t like Judaism bc he didn’t think having a group of chosen ppl would work in Russia#so Roman vs Greek (not catholic vs orthodox bc the church didn’t split until 1054) was an aesthetic choice#plus he wanted to be pals with the Byzantine empire ig#Christianity#orthodox Christianity#catholic#churches#orthodoxy is called ‘corrrect word’ in Russian lol#it’s also the oldest church!#I’m atheist but religion is fascinating
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