I was raised in a very religious Fundamental Protestant household. I have let go of most of the dogma of the church I grew up in (I wear pants, cut my hair, play cards, and read books other than the Bible with no fear of going to hell!) but Easter never fails to move me somehow, and I was especially touched when I saw this on Gateway Pundit:
Russian Interfax reported, via Free Republic:
Fans greeted each other on Easter at a Sunday evening soccer match at Moscow Lokomotiv stadium.
At the beginning of the second half of the match thousands of fans of Dynamo team started chanting “Christ is Risen!”, an Interfax correspondent reports.
Thousands of fans of Lokomotiv teeam on the opposite side of the stadium responded by chanting “Truly He is Risen!”
The exchange took place several times.
The correspondent who has attended soccer matches for almost 50 years says it was the occurrence of this kind in the history of Russian soccer.
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How sadly ironic that in Russia of all places we see a stadium full of young folks greeting each other on Easter, proclaiming en masse their joy in the Resurrection, while in the freaking UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, we have a president who mocks people for clinging to their religion.
5 years ago
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