A SIGN OF THE TIMES: RUSSIAN PATRIARCH ADOPTS PUTIN'S HARD LINE IN DENOUNCING 'DANGEROUS FEMINISM'

Putin has found himself a willing ally in the patriarch Kyril, who has become more and more entrenched in dogma that most fits a century now past. 

He has recently expounded on the fact that women are being led by dangerous 'propaganda' to acts that are self-damaging.

In fact he has gone so far as to say that feminism encourages women to do 'things' besides taking the role that they are best to do  such as housekeeping and childrearing.

Who knew, that almost a century after religion had been chastised, put in the corner and nearly wiped out of the political map, that the orthodox church now sees fit to consort with the very party and government that so wished its demise?

The Patriarch added in his speech that feminism is an illusion of freedom, not a real one, that can only be obtained, in its illusory form one imagines, outside the family confines.  

Only men, according to Kyril, should focus on matters such as work, earning money and like activities.  Women, on the other hand should only turn their eyes to those activities that are conducted inside the house.  

Of course the good Patriarch then proceeded to expound on the fate of humanity if feminism took hold, even preaching that the end of humanity as we know would ensue if women stepped outside the house and concerned themselves with such abstruse things such as work and earning money. 

However, the good Patriarch must have forgotten that there are some men who do not, or cannot support their family, and in that case the women must in some way 'turn their eyes' to the forbidden fruit of work and career.

Kyril, in fact, has been helping Putin in many ways, even going so far as to recommend the harshest penalties for the band Pussy Riot.  

Needless to say he tried to bolster his very orthodox theories by saying that feminist are usually unmarried.  

With falling birth rates and one of the shortest life spans on earth, the good patriarch has reasons to lament.  In fact government subsidies and incentives to have children could do much more than prayers from the pulpit denouncing the Russian women's scoundrelly behavior.  But maybe his calendar is not up to date, and having missed the whole revolution debacle, he has decided to start where in effect his church had left off, i.e., 1918.

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Partial Source: France 24/ 4.11.13