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  Lol he was already raving about it before the plan even went through.
  Claimed that they were banning the entire Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Not even making this up.
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  By Decree No. 898/2022 of December 28, 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended the citizenship of a number of priests with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
  According to the publication's sources, Zelensky suspended the citizenship of 13 clerics of the UOC. In particular, it is about Metropolitan Ionafan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, who has been charged with treason.
  Many clergymen were found to hold Russian citizenship, store pro-Russian propaganda literature and millions in cash.
  
  
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  Many clergymen were found to hold Russian citizenship, store pro-Russian propaganda literature and millions in cash.
  
  Underaged choirboys were also "held". >
  
  What ever happens to the good o' priest who would just fuck the nuns?? >
  
  Women's liberation happened. Women deemed immoral are no longer shamed by society into the nunnery to atone for their sinful ways, so the population in the convents ends up being formed predominantly from the kind of women who actually believe in the whole chastity thing. >
  
  One of my first jobs was in the kitchens of a Catholic care home that used to be full on Magdalene Sisters.
  Severe mental disability?  In the home.  Child out of wedlock?  In the home.  Raped by your brother and kept going on about it despite being told to shut up?  In the home.
  They were elderly and institutionalised by the time I got there in the 90s and the place had been taken over by an actual care home chain.  Shocking stories though. >
  
  Holy shite you worked in a Magdalene laundry?! That’s horrific. Well a care home by then but Jesus, so awful how we let the Catholic Church treat young women in Ireland >
  
  My aunt was packed off to a Magdalene home in the 60s when she got pregnant at 18. They worked her to the bone, verbally and mentally abused her and the other women, and beat them with canes. The nuns called her a tramp and a wh0re. She said the place was like a prison and a lot of the girls & women were sexually abused by the priests and nuns.
  The moment her baby was born they took him away, she never got a glimpse of him, then they kicked her out. It took her 40 years to find him, he was in NYC and they finally met a few years ago. The Church had been taking babies from these laundries and selling them to rich Americans to adopt, it was a very lucrative business for them. >
  
  That's how part of my family came to Canada. My great (great?) Grandmother sent her two sons to stay with the church during the blitz in London and the church sold them off to some guy in Ontario to work on his farm. She came to get them back afterwards and they were gone. I dunno if she ever found them again. >
  
  
  Many clergymen were found to hold Russian citizenship
  
  So it's possible because of it. You can't legally remove the only citizenship of a human being but you can when there's several >
  
  At the level of nations, the only thing that is illegal is what that nation itself accepts as illegal, or has forced upon them as illegal through war. >
  
  So I looked it up, and according to Wikipedia, Ukraine signed the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, where:
  
  Absent circumstances of fraudulent application or disloyalty toward the contracting state, deprivations and renunciations of citizenship shall only take effect where a person has or subsequently obtains another nationality in replacement (article 8).
  
  So I guess they can justify it by "disloyalty toward the contracting state". >
  
  So did the UK, and they turned someone stateless precisely due to disloyalty. >
  
  She literally joined ISIS >
  
  You can be stripped off citizenship if you have one from different country. If they had RU passports, it would be a reason. Russian churches in Ukraine were just propaganda places full of agents. >
  
  Wasn’t it Norway or some such place where they had to enact laws against Russian Churches because they were essentially just government hideouts? >
  
  It's weird that the Russian Orthodox Church survived the famously atheist USSR...
  ...until you realise that the KGB had thoroughly and totally infiltrated them and turned them into an extension of the state. That's how they survived, and continue to do so. >
  
  It's not like they were a bastion of scruples before the soviets, though. Rich, venal men suckling at the teat of autocracy for 600 years. >
  
  
  It's not like they were a bastion of scruples ..., though. Rich, venal men suckling
  
  So ... just like evangelists in America? >
  
  Whew, that was close, we almost got 5 comments deep without throwing shade at the US. >
  
  Eh the evangelists here deserve a lot of criticism >
  
  Agreed… I typically get peeved at these kind of comments but honestly this is arguably relevant and 100% accurate. >
  
  I don't view this as an attack or shade on the US as a whole, either. The Evangelicals here are just a shitty group that happens to be American, it's not that being American makes them shitty.
  Plus, as you said, it's a relevant and accurate comparison. >
  
  It is kinda funny that they "happened to me American". They were deported there. Europeans countries saw an easy way of getting ris of all the religious nut jobs back in the day, and they took it. So there is a good reason all these different churches are around America and not to the same extent in Europe. >
  
  Cue Tucker Carlson raving about Zelensky’s war on Christianity.