{"id":363458,"date":"2018-05-31T02:47:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T01:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-is-americas-cause-in-the-world-today\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T02:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T01:47:42","slug":"what-is-americas-cause-in-the-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-is-americas-cause-in-the-world-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is America\u2019s Cause in the World Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After being sworn in for a fourth term, Vladimir Putin departed the Kremlin for Annunciation Cathedral to receive the televised blessing of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n

The patriarch and his priests in sacred vestments surrounded Putin, who, standing alone, made the sign of the cross.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, sacred vestments from the Sistine Chapel were being transported by the Vatican to New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art to adorn half-clad models in a sexy show billed as \u201cHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.\u201d One model sported a papal tiara.<\/p>\n

The show proved a sensation in secular media.<\/p>\n

In Minsk, Belarus, on May 17, to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Britain\u2019s embassy raised the rainbow flag. Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Internal Affairs was not amused:<\/p>\n

\u201cSame-sex relationships are a fake. And the essence of fake is always the same \u2014 the devaluation of truth. The LGBT community and all this struggle for \u2018their rights,\u2019 and the day of the community itself, are just a fake!\u201d<\/p>\n

Belarus is declaring moral truth \u2014 to Great Britain.
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What is going on? A scholarly study sums it up: \u201cThe statistical trends in religion show two separate Europes: the West is undergoing a process of secularization while the post-socialist East, de-secularization.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Europe is turning back to God; the other is turning its back on God.<\/p>\n

And when Vladimir Putin and Belarus\u2019 Alexander Lukashenko are standing up for traditional values against Western cultural elites, the East-West struggle has lost its moral clarity.<\/p>\n

And, so, what do we Americans stand for now? What is our…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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