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This past April, activists from the Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers, a lay Russian Orthodox organisation, dispersed a group of Anti Christian protesters gathered in downtown Moscow near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour by dealing with them in a distinctively brutal and Russian way; by DOUSING THEM WITH HOLY WATER!! http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120429/173127068.html [ Linked Image] The banner reads "Orthodoxy Or Death" in Old Orthography. I have to get me one of these T-Shirts! Alexandr
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This picture has to be a joke right? Scowling monks with a chotki on one arm and a dagger on the other?? Where's the joy? 
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Looking at the pictures of the men at the linked page, what I find funny is that no one seems phased by their dress. Here in America a person dressed like that would automatically be assumed to be anti-Christian --- Christians are expected to be clean-cut and squishy. I guess they ain't kidding when they say Orthodoxy is manly.
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They're not monks. The Orthodox Banner Bearers is a lay Orthodox organization, with the goal of putting Orthodoxy first in Russian daily life. The oprichniki dress is just a good way to put the fear of God in the left wing rabble that they oppose.
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Who says Christians are supposed to be clean cut and squishy? Not in this neck of the woods!
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