Well, you have given me some on-going chuckles (when I have had little to be humorous about lately) from your unexpected clever reply, likening this monstrosity Moscow Military Memorial 'Megachurch' to the Bates Motel in the 1960 Psycho movie, mainly, I assume, as regarding what happened/ or happens inside of both buildings.
Yes, the Bates Motel and this sinister structure – both, have evil and dark negative modalities and ...purposes.
I would never have made that comparison, but you are not far off.
In the Orthodox Church, our sacred temples are built and decorated to be, little & bright inspiring places of heaven on earth.
When we step inside of our churches, (no matter what century they were built) we feel as if we are in a foretaste of heaven, surrounded by images of Christ and His life and His saints- HOLY places, inspired places wherein to restore our faith and to encourage us towards THEOSIS, union with God (which is the whole aim of Orthodox Christian spirituality and life).
Light festive shapes and colours are normal, and Byzantine shapes -or other local ethnic cultural variations on that style, also normal.
Icons festoon the insides and often the outsides of our holy places for worship.
But this building is trying to proclaim a big lie to the world: that God & His servants and the Devil and his servants, are equal, and that those who served the Devil-and who died (from Lenin thru the Second World War till now), in that service-bringing communism into Russia and the world, are EQUAL to God's saints!
And this horrible church, makes visible, V. Putin's atheistic fantasy dream of uniting Communism and his captive form of Russian Orthodoxy, under one combined control: HIS.
His thesis is: GOD blesses whatever Putin wants to do, with Russia or the whole world.
Originally, the original communist scheme (Marxist/Leninism) was to eliminate all religion, and replace it with the communist utopian plans for mankind, starting in Russia.
BUT, dear Stalin was thwarted in those plans, as Hitler's mighty army was invading and conquering Russian territory, -and the Russian peasants were welcoming the invading Germans, with bouquets of flowers and praises, as they were so very disgusted by the mass murder and brutality of the Bolsheviks, that they looked to Hitler to save them!
Hitler's mighty military machine and army was wining.
So then, Stalin devised his false puppet church, in 1943, to inspire the common Russians ( who were mostly very deeply religious for centuries-the ancestral Orthodox faith was a daily part of their very normal lives), to fight 'for Mother Russia and the Orthodox faith', etc.
Most Russians, wanted the communists to loose and be wiped out. LATER on, the Germans could not possibly hold all of vast Russia, and THEN the common people would defeat and throw them out.
Over 3 million Russian men joined Hitler's army, to help defeat the Bolsheviks. Because to save the communists, the Russian people would not fight for or die for.
But I will have to stop here, as otherwise I will try to recount all Russian history, and that is too much for me now.
But, NO!, no normal Orthodox church looks like this morbid and depressing temple, nor could it be built in order to honor the memory of those who blew up churches and mass murdered the clergy and laity, as did many of those commemorated within this darkly hued structure- which is a mockery of a Russian church...in many many ways.
But, your DARK humour has lifted my spirits, thanks!
Our Metropolitan Agafangel has labeled it, as the new center for Putin's new Pagan Religion.
Indeed, it is a pagan temple, not an Orthodox church – either in its twisted and corrupt and deceitful purpose or in its physical appearance.
And by the way, other similar mega-temples are being planed for some of the Russian Federation's 'republics', such as a one for their Ural region.
Putin styles himself as sort of a ersatz new Russian Czar, so he needs a 'Russian Church' (one under his complete control) to validate his fantasies. – so that 'he gains the blessings of heaven' for his demonic world domination schemes.
Putin and his KGB network WITH the worldwide LEFT, are behind the organized chaos in our country now – he must destroy America, by turning us all against each other, to realize his end-dream of returning Russia and the world to his hero – Joseph Stalin's goals. Of course, Putin is a typical self-worshipping dictator, as was Hitler and Stalin and them all.
Forgive any typing or spelling errors, but I am in a hurry.
Rd. Daniel in Oregon
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