By now you've doubtless heard about the Pussy Riot case in Russia, where members of a punk rock band were sentenced to prison for - in the Western media's view - violations of the "right of free speech" and for criticizing that dastardly neo-Stalinist, Vladimir Putin. A few years back, the American media - and particularly its home-grown-religion's media - was up in arms about Russian laws against evangelicals seeking to proselytize or "convert" people away from that nasty Catholic-looking Russian Orthodoxy stuff, to that "true bible-believing Christianity" that seems oddly compliant to the … [Read more...]