Since Russia is said to be a White Christian nation

[sdholloway56]

but nobody goes to church there, we can deduce what “Christian” actually means to MAGAs.

I’ll continue to protest the inclusion of Slavs as white, but given the slippery slope of the last century on who gets to be white, I guess I’ll lose that one.

[BA Deere]

Bohemians can have blue eyes and some are blond, I think they all check the "white box" on the census forms.  They can be pretty good mechanics. And they aren`t just Catholic, they are Caaaaathoooolick!

[sdholloway56]

To my point.

The Founders would not have considered exotic Catholics white, even though they guaranteed their right to worship as long as their church kept its nose out of politics.

[sdholloway56]

And Orthodox* Slavs would be way, way out there.

*historically, if presently moribund.

[BA Deere]

Bohemians are Caucasian.  There is small amounts of "eastern European and Baltic" in even God`s Chosen race the Norwegians   🙂

Genetics[edit]

According to Y chromosome, mDNA, and autosomal marker CCR5de132, the gene pool of Eastern(Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians) and Western Slavs (Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks) is identical, which is consistent with the proximity of their languages, demonstrating significant differences from neighboring Finno-Ugric, Turkic, and North Caucasian peoples. Such genetic homogeneity is somewhat unusual, given such a wide dispersal of Slavic populations, especially Russians.^[35][36] Together they form the basis of the "East European" gene cluster, which also includes non-Slavic Hungarians and Aromanians.^[35][37]

Only Poles and Northern Russians among East and West Slavs belong to a different, “Northern European” genetic cluster, along with Balts, Germanic and Baltic Finnic peoples (Northern Russian populations are very similar to Balts).^[38][39]

The 2006 Y-DNA study results "suggest that the Slavic expansion started from the territory of present-day Ukraine, thus supporting the hypothesis that places the earliest known homeland of Slavs in the basin of the middle Dnieper".^[40] According to genetic studies until 2020, the distribution, variance and frequency of the Y-DNA haplogroups R1a and I2 and their subclades R-M558, R-M458 and I-CTS10228 among South Slavs are in correlation with the spreading of Slavic languages during the medieval Slavic expansion from Eastern Europe, most probably from the territory of present day Ukraine and Southeastern Poland.^{[41][42][43][44][45][46][47]}

Other studies conclude that the ancient Slavic homeland was in Pomerania, Germany. According to a 1919 Shakhmatov study, Slavic tribes from the Elbe and Vistula moved from west to east in two groups. The western group, gradually moving to the north, northeast and east. They would occupy the territories of present-day Belarus and the Pskov, Novgorod, and Smolensk areas of modern Russia. The second, moving south and southeast, gradually settled in the territories of modern Volhynia, Ukraine and the Carpathian Mountains. The Slavs would gradually occupy the territories that would make up the Kievan Rus Empire. Those territories being modern day Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.^[48]

[sdholloway56]

And your point is?

Like the Irish, they really didn’t get to be considered white in America until well into the 20th Century.

[BA Deere]

I don`t know about the discrimination of the Irish, apparently it happened at one time, but unless you open your mouth how would anyone know you were Irish?   Just like Elizabeth Warren claiming to be Indian, her stupid family got away with it right up until she took the DNA test   🙂  

Russians look pretty white to me.  

But, I suppose your angle is "Russians ain`t white or Christian....so let`s go kill `em!!!" .  What does going to church have to do with being Christian?   ... seriously if you proclaim Jesus as your Savior, that gives you Grace to be saved.   It has nothing to do with how many times a year your butt is in a church pew.  As a matter of fact, if you`re in the wrong church, all you may be doing is angering God. 

Only difference between Putin and Zelensky is Putin has more bombs.  I pray those two white nations do not go to war, even though the price of corn may drop a buck.