Tucker Carlson said the Biden government hates countries like Russia and Hungary because they identify too explicitly as Christian.
“They hate Hungary, and they hate it not because of what’s it done but because of what it is: It’s a Christian country, and they hate that, and that’s the truth,” Carlson said in a recent speech in Budapest, the Hungarian capital.
“[I] t’s not a particularly provocative Christian country. I don’t think most Hungarians go to church,” Tucker said.
“It’s not a theocracy; you’re not required to believe in the Catechism to live here; it’s nothing like that,” he added.
“It’s a soft Christian country… Three hundred years ago, people would look at modern Hungary and say: ‘That’s not a Christian country.'”
“But by modern standards, it’s one of the last countries that identifies as a nation built on Christian precepts… [T]hat is enough to incite our policymakers in the United States, and it’s exactly why they hate Russia, by the way,” Tucker continued.
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Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has touted his country in a similar fashion, saying, “Christianity is culture and civilization.”
“We live in it. It is not about how many people go to church or how many pray honestly. Culture is the reality of everyday life.”
Unlike Hungary, Russia is more multi-confessional, containing several constituent republics in which Islam is the majority faith.
The Russian Orthodox Church also became an important cultural link with countries in the Russian (“Russian world”) like Ukraine.
Ukraine has attempted to sever the Orthodox church in the country’s links to the Patriarch of Moscow.
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