Is Putin Christian?

Can omissions characterise a heretic?

Acts, Gestures, Attitudes and Omissions Can Characterize a Heretic
March 24, 2016 | Luiz Sérgio Solimeo
https://www.tfp.org/acts-gestures-attitudes-and-omissions-can-characterize-a-heretic/

Well, if they can, they can also characterise an apostate or someone who never was a believer.

Does Putin omit something consistently? Yes, the factual truth of Christian doctrine.

I think the nearest he comes to saying "I believe Christ rose from the dead" is liturgic reciting of Nicene Creed without filioque on Sundays and answering "Voístinu voskrése!" at Easter.

He has said much about Christian values. It is not as if he was under an obligation to avoid the subject of Christianity.

So - does he believe it is true, or does he only believe a few falsehoods happened to be the package of the best value system?

A bit like Gould believes in a Judaism of halakha, yes, but hagada, who cares (also known as "non-overlapping magisteria"). Believed, I mean, in 2002 he found out he was wrong.

Putin: We Live In A World Based On Biblical Values; Liberals Are Trying To Dismantle It
Russia Insight | 4.VII.2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMUeryzX2Y

Not saying he is wrong on liberals - but is he defending only a value system? If so, that should give us cause for worry. Also check what William Browder has to say about Putin here:

How I figured out the Achilles heel of Vladimir Putin | William Browder | TEDxBerlin
TEDx Talks | 14.VIII.2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT254smRufA

A culture war in which liberals attack many Christian values and the factual truth of Christian faith and in which their main opponent defends some Christian values with explicit reference and does not defend the factual truth of Christian faith ... sounds bad for Christians, right?/HGL