{"id":563,"date":"2008-03-19T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-03-19T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:58:34","slug":"gorbachev-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/gorbachev-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorbachev a Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Admits<\/i>, huh?<\/p>\n

I wonder if that word choice is supposed to be significant. As in, The Telegraph<\/i> has suspected it for quite a while and now, finally, Mikhail owns up to the error of his ways. (Or something like that.)<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, here are some excerpts from their story:<\/p>\n\n\n
Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian<\/a><\/p>\n

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n

Accompanied by his daughter Irina, Mr Gorbachev spent half an hour on his knees in silent prayer at the tomb.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Mr Gorbachev’s surprise visit confirmed decades of rumours that, although he was forced to publicly pronounce himself an atheist, he was in fact a Christian, and casts a meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1989 in a new light.<\/p>\n

Mr Gorbachev, 77, was baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church and his parents were Christians.<\/p>\n

In addition, the parents of his wife Raisa were deeply religious and were killed during the Second World War for having religious icons in their home.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Oh, is that what he thinks makes him a Christian?!<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit more from the story:<\/p>\n\n\n
Ronald Reagan, the former United States president, allegedly told his close aides on a number of occasions that he felt his opponent during the Cold War was a “closet believer”.<\/p>\n

Mr Reagan held deep religious convictions himself. However, until now Mr Gorbachev has allowed himself to express only pantheistic views, saying in one interview “nature is my god”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Well, that sounds very suspect to me.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gorbachev, what makes you a Christian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Admits, huh? I wonder if that word choice is supposed to be significant. As in, The Telegraph has suspected it for quite a while and now, finally, Mikhail owns up to the error of his ways. (Or something like that.) Whatever the case, here are some excerpts from their story: Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-95","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}