text: Me thinks, Elagabalus, that your criticism of Russian Orthodoxy overreaches.
  
  It is true that the current leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church "colludes" with the tyrannical Putin. One could say essentially the same about the majority of the US Catholic bishops "colluding" with the Republicans, and their current tyranny-inclined Trump? Both cases of episcopal stupidity are largely driven, I would suggest, by single issues: Russian nationalism there, and opposition to abortion here.
  
  Surely Orthodoxy as a faith cannot be identified with, and must not be rejected because of the  current leadership of the Russian branch of that Church; any more that Catholicism can be identified with, and must be rejected because of the current leaders of the US branch of that Church?
  
  I reject your link of "Russian" with Nazi "Aryan" as grossly unfair. Please understand that I am Ukrainian, and no nation on earth has suffered more that Ukraine at the hands of Russian nationalism over many centuries.