Mother of God’s Belt comes to Russia to help reverse population decline

[cleanhippie]

SOMETHING has to be done to reverse Russia’s shrinking population – described here as “a matter of national security” – and religious and political leaders, including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are hoping that the Belt of the Virgin Mary will solve the problem.

In October Putin travelled to St Petersburg airport to receive the relic, AKA The Belt of the Mother of God, which arrived from Greece. The relic is a highly revered Orthodox piece of antiquity credited with fertility-boosting powers, and clerics said they hoped it would help more Russian women become mothers.

http://freethinker.co.uk/2011/11/24/mother-of-god%E2%80%99s-belt-comes-to-russia-to-help-reverse-population-decline/

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Yeah! Just what the world needs...more belief in unprovable and supernatural claims, and more children to fill the pews and coffers...

[rrneck]

1. In the words of Richard Pryor

"Y'all stop fuckin'?"

[onager]

2. More of that Sophisticated Theology we hear so much about...

Thanks.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Maybe if they banned vodka

the people would find something else to do

[FreakinDJ]

4. or had a future worth bringing children into

[rug]

5. Related thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2374067

[Silent3]

6. Does the belt increase virgin fertility?

And how hard is it to get God to pay child support?

[struggle4progress]

7. Must be something about late November that makes people want to wait in long lines

I hear folk are standing in long lines here today too

[provis99]

8. why don't they just let in millions of immigrants?

That will boost the population. It works for other European countries.