Orthodox Priests Don’t Like the Internet Drawing Anime Saints

Roy Batty
Daily Stormer
February 24, 2018

These guys need to lighten up.

This wasn’t done to harm or offend anybody or anybody’s religion. It was done out of harmless autism.

Nothing to get worked up about.

RT:

A social media account sharing anime-style drawings of religious icons has caused public outcry in Russia, with priests and believers calling the artwork “inappropriate” and “sinful.”

A social media group followed by thousands of people has been posting images of religious icons with the faces of characters from Japanese cartoons. The pictures, which feature representations of Jesus, Mary and a number of saints, seemed to capture the imagination of netizens but failed to impress members of the Russian Orthodox Church, some of whom accused the artists of blasphemy. A number of people even suggested that the controversial pictures may have breached Russian laws.

Look, the Orthodox Church is just going to have to face facts here.

If you want the kids to get into your thing, no matter what your thing is, you need to use anime as a medium to get your message across.

Also – Anime is the pinnacle of art and nothing anyone says can convince me otherwise.

Perhaps this is my media-addled Millennial mind at work here…

But no one can say that these icons look worse or that this was done disrespectfully. 

It looks fine to me:

Admittedly, there’s some gender-bending going on, but that just comes with the medium, so to speak.

That is to say, the Orthodox aren’t being targeted specifically. When it comes to anime, everyone and everything eventually becomes… reinterpreted in cute 2D girl terms.

Now, I’m not really that keen on these anime saints either, personally.

I am convinced that Orthodoxy has the potential to go in the other direction: hardcore and grimdark. Because they’re already more than halfway there.

Have you seen those pics of the Orthodox priests blessing weapons systems in Russia?

You can’t tell me that they don’t resemble the Adeptus Mechanicus.

On a personal project level, I want to start memeing Orthodoxy into becoming more grimdark and based. That will mean borrowing heavily from Warhammer 40k imagery.

It won’t be hard.

Take a listen to this. It’s like the soundtrack from Halo, but better.

All this is to say that Orthodoxy has the right temperament and aesthetic going for it to conquer the stars.

It’s up to us to convince them to harden up and accept their destiny as a religion that appeals to millions of young men who want to be Space Marines and need a religion to do the hard work of preparing a future where that is possible.

For a while, I thought it would be the Mormons who would lead the colonization of space. What with their talk about Kolob. Or was it Kobol?

But Mormons are a parasitic cult and can only function on the fringes of an already established system. They can’t create an Imperial Space system. No way, no how.

They will instead end up being exiled to the Asteroid Belt should they make it into space.

And as for modern Catholics, well, we know that they will just invite the Xenos onto our colonies and try to diddle them, so they’re pretty much useless.

The Jews on the other hand will try to breed with the Xenos to create a Xeno-Human hybrid that will slowly try to subvert Xeno society and force them to take out credit from the Jewish banking planet of Saturn.

Perhaps Hinduism has a shot?

Different planets having different gods makes sense intuitively.

But to do that, India would have to become a superpower by 2020 and somehow into space.

Unlikely, to say the least.

The way I see it, the Orthodox have made a choice. 

They rejected the easy anime cutesy aesthetic to focus instead on pursuing the 40k grimdark route.

The true patrician’s choice.