Still, that doesn't negate your point about Georgia and just deepens poemless' broader point that much of this country's silly fear of Russia is rooted in our damnable Christian militaristic mission. And the world will live as one
I was born in Houston, Texas during WW II and grew up in Whizbang, Oklahoma in the 50s. Neither budr or myself are exactly typical Okies. But we are far from the only ones of similar persuasions to come out of that fair state. I returned to the Ozarks of my grandparents upon my retirement. I find enough people here of persuasions similar to mine to feel at home. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
What I recall from the 50s was traveling at night by car and listening to Billie James Hargis on the radio railing on about GODLESS COMMUNISM and the need for a Christian Crusade Against Godless Communism. I found him annoying at age 16, even though we listened mostly to laugh.
By the time I got to OSU and was taking Russian language and Russian History the official atheism was the thing I liked best about the Soviet Union and would gladly have seen some of these fundamentalist clowns thrown down the well head first. At least I wouldn't have had to listen to them rant any more. Each semester we were asked to fill in a religious preference. By my final year I was listing "League of the Militant Godless," Trotsky's old organization.
I enjoy your posts, even if we seem to mis-communicate in the comments. Please bear with me. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
In the decades leading up to the incorporation of Georgia into the Russian Empire, (formally begun in 1801,) the local potentates had been actively seeking protection from the Tsar against the Turks. Much of the modern Georgian identity was forged after it was incorporated into the Russian Empire. Small detail.
It was not all sweetness and light. The Monarchy that ruled over parts of the area inhabited by Georgian people was destroyed, and, in the process, the Georgian Orthodox Church lost its autocephalus status and Russia set up local organizations along the Russian line. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Don't bother about it having been taken in 2003. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
