re: #254 Obdicut

A convert, yes.

From his own words:

sem40.ru

However, I do not see any contradiction in the fact that Orthodox Christian supports Jews. Orthodox Christianity is a religion, and Jewish is an ethnicity. Similarly, as an [ethnic] Jew can become an Orthodox Christian, an [ethnic] Russian can be a [religious] Jew. As a Jew by birth, I certainly try to help the Jews, but this aid has never manifested itself in the form of participation in the creation of any of the numerous Russian Jewish organizations.

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- What prompted you to convert to Orthodoxy, and when did it happen?

- It happened in April 1994, two months before the assassination attempt on me, which ended tragically for my driver and I miraculously survived. It’s hard to rationalize this baptism, but I think to a large extent it is - the result of the influence of Russian culture. I came to this after a lot - more than a year - thinking and consider myself a Christian believer.