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Runtu we are never to criticize our leaders, / http://stihi.ru/2023/12/09/1462 /  even if the criticism is true.

2024 : Журналистика : Франко - Англо - Pусско-язычный писатель и журналист - автор : Юри Рюнтю / Uri Runtu / Yuri Ryuntyu / French : Iouri Runtu : BOOK : Rudolf Noureev : La Mort a Paris / Canberra ACT : Australia - / http://stihi.ru/2013/05/16/5478 / Media TV Radio : Общение и Опыт жизни этих Выдающихся личностей - помог мне прожить счастливую жизнь на Западе и в России : Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), Patrick White (1912-1990), Robert Helpmann (1909-1986), Nora Kaye (1920-1987), Herbert Ross (1927-2001), Janet Karin (1938), Frederik Ashton (1904-1988), Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), Vali Myers (1930-2003), Jean Babillee-Gutmann (1923-2014), Pina Bausch (1940-2009), Josephine Baker (1906-1975), Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) and Laurel Martyn (1916-2013)/ Celebrities Russia / Canberra ACT Australia / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu : English : Hео-трансцендентальный театр Рюнтю Юри : / http://stihi.ru/2021/12/11/139 / : 2024.

2024 : Tiktok : Runtu, Uri Telegram : Юри Рюнтю: Что такое - ПОЭЗИЯ?

POETRY is like the intellectual sunshine of mankind.

The music of poetry multiplied by words has between
flourishing for many millenniums across many cultures.

If civilization was to vanish from history,
the aroma of poetry would still exist,
leaving a legacy to light the way for a new beginning.

Poetry preserves links between generations and civilizations,
keeping intact the feelings of a person,
safe within the words they write to leave behind.

Those who find these words re-open the world of the poet; a peaceful place to enjoy their experiences and ideas of the world.

This is what our poetry is about... : the Neo-transcendental theatre by Uri Runtu : 2024

2024 - Русско-язычная Культура в Австралии : Фото: Академик Рюнтю Юри и Профессор Шумяцкий Борис: 2004. Дар из 62 КНИГ о Выдающихся Россиянах и России на ДВД - для Библиотек АИС Москва: Ассоциация Историков Искусства, лично передан - доктору искусствоведения Шумяцкому Борису (генеральный директор Международного филиала АИС ), Россия, Москва. Academician Yuri Ryuntyu in Russia: 2004. Аrt collection by Runtu family (Australia): 2004 / http://stihi.ru/2006/02/24-1275 / ШУМЯЦКИЙ Борис Лазаревич 1937-2013: Москва Россия / http://stihi.ru/2019/12/22/7053 / Hео-трансцендентальный театр Рюнтю Юри: 2024.

2024 - Русско-язычная Культура в Австралии : Canberra ACT Australia / Фото: Московский Образовательный Центр США в здании Всероссийской Государственной Библиотеки Иностранной Литературы им. Маргариты Ивановны Рудомино: Москва Россия 2006 / http://stihi.ru/2012/08/30/2768 / Дар - из 62 книг писателя о Грандиозных Россиянах : DVD-1 DVD-2: ' О Pусском 3арубежьe в США, в Европе и Австралии ' для Библиотечных Фондов США: лично передан - Директору Центра Марисе Фушилл ( Mrs Marisa Fushille : USA / http://stihi.ru/2021/03/31/862/ - 62 книги автора на двух ДВД-дисках : ' О Pусском 3арубежьe в США, в Европе и Австралии ' для Библиотечных Фондов России: лично переданы - госпоже Ольге Валентиновне Синицыной ( Mrs Olga Sinitsina : Deputy Director General : Russia ), директору Всероссийской Государственной Библиотеки Иностранной Литературы. Photo: Academician Yuri Ryuntyu and Marisa Fushille and Olga Sinitsina in Moscow Russia 2006 / http://www.stihi.ru/2012/10/27/2765 / Media TV Radio Celebrities Russia / : BOOK : French Iouri Runtu: Rudolf Noureev : La Mort a Paris / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / http://www.stihi.ru/2006/04/15-2109 / Uri Runtu: English / Canberra ACT Australia Telegram : the Neo-transcendental theatre : 2024.

Runtu we are never to criticize our leaders, / http://stihi.ru/2023/12/09/1462 /  even if the criticism is true.

 Runtu :

seen as “facing the wrong way,”

 “ark steadying,” or

 simply apostasy


A recent article by Maren Stephenson published on ... seems to have struck a chord with some Mormons.

In response, Ryan Bell offers a derisive piece contrasting Ms. Stephenson’s spiritual immaturity with the thinkers at ...

(That Mr. Bell is a fan of the FARMS style of attack apologetics tells me a lot about him.)

Melissa Inouye writes a less-harsh essay that still manages to dredge up common Mormon refences against those who leave.


Ms. Stephenson writes frankly about her husband’s loss of faith and her struggle to understand, a situation that increasing numbers of Mormons are experiencing (the article is beautifully written and quite moving).

However, unlike Ms. Stephenson’s story,

most such mixed-faith marriages

do not have a happy ending.

 Often, the de-faithed are a source of sadness,

 pity, and sometimes contempt from

their Mormon friends and family;

 peaceful coexistence may be the best the apostate can hope for.

What seems to have annoyed LDS bloggers about Ms. Stephenson’s article is, first, her rude assertion that, in Mormon marriages, the church comes first;

second, that leaving the LDS church is a liberating experience because the church treats its members like children; and third, the suggestion that the more one knows about church history, the less likely one is to believe in the church’s truth claims.

 Let’s take a look at these ridiculous attacks on the true church.

1. Church comes first in your marriage. One of the most poignant statements Ms. Stephenson makes in her article comes when she describes her husband’s confession of unbelief: “Before I could process what I was saying, forbidden words slipped off my tongue. ‘You are more important to me than the Church,’ I said.” LDS blogger Bell sneers, “Members of the LDS Church faced with a spouse leaving the church don’t have to choose between ‘love’ and ‘faith.'” Although he acknowledges that the LDS belief that salvation is a family affair causes “heightened” tensions–the understatement of the year–he says, “Still, no one ever forced Ms. Stephenson to choose between her church and her husband, unless it was her husband.”

But Ms. Stephenson is right: the choice isn’t between abandoning one’s faith or one’s spouse. Rather, one must choose which is more important: the church or the spouse. There is a difference.

 When I lost my faith, my wife said she didn’t know how our marriage could work because “the church is the center of our marriage.” To her, our religion was the glue that held us together;

 it took time for us both to figure out that what really binds us to each other is love, companionship, shared goals, friendship, intimacy, and so many other things. The choice, then, is to put Mormonism in perspective as just one aspect of a rich and complex relationship or to keep it the center of conflict, the symbol of everything that isn’t right and isn’t whole in the marriage.

As Ms. Stephenson put it, “The Mormon Church teaches that marriage can only thrive if God is an equal part of it.

 But when we left God out of it, we were free to love each other completely, to share the burden of our grief as two individuals with no one else.” 

She has made the right choice to put the relationship first, not the church. That she eventually left the church is, to me, incidental to her decision to value love more than institutional loyalty.

Someone like Ryan Bell can’t pretend to understand the choice she was faced with, so he dismisses it as imaginary.

2. Becoming as little children. Ms. Stephenson wrote, “When I shed my garments for slippery Victoria’s Secret panties, my self-esteem skyrocketed, and our late nights shifted to other things. We were finally adults, taking our firsts together, learning about each other without barriers.” These two sentences have some Mormons mightily upset. Mr. Bell, for example, goes for the straw man, suggesting that the statement “implies that her marriage in prior years was an abstinent desert of religious strictures.” I could talk about the bizarre and repressive teachings of the LDS church and its leaders regarding sexuality, birth control, and the boundaries of proper intimacy in the bedroom.

(I once had a bishop call a special meeting to rail against the evils of buying lingerie for our wives, as “we don’t want our wives to dress like Hollywood hookers!”)

 But the larger issue here is that, as Ms. Stephenson notes, the church treats its members as children who must be told exactly what to do and how and when.

In Mormon scripture we read, “For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things;

 for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant;

 wherefore he receives no reward” (Doctrine and Covenants 58:26).

 If that’s true, the leadership of the church must believe that we are all slothful and unwise because the church has in some ways become a hyper-pharisaic list of rules of appearance and behaviour.

 God may look on the heart, but the LDS church looks on the hair length, facial hair, the number of earrings, and the modesty of a four-year-old’s sleeves.

Bell notes that “LDS couples are free to enjoy sex as they please,” but qualifies that statement with “nothing in the Church restricts the normal practice of sexual activity within marriage.”

The issue is how the church defines “the normal practice of sexual activity.”

As prophet Spencer W. Kimball taught,

“Even marriage does not make proper certain extremes in sexual indulgence.

 ... If it is unnatural, you just don’t do it.  That is all, and all the family life should be kept clean and worthy and on a very high plane. 

There are some people who have said that behind the bedroom doors anything goes.  That is not true, and the Lord would not condone it.”

 That doesn’t exactly sound like being “free to enjoy sex as they please.”

But this micromanagement of behaviour goes well beyond the bedroom. We’ve been taught where leaders are supposed to sit (“the first counsellor always sits on the right of the president; the second counsellor on the left.

That is a demonstration of doing things ‘decently and in order,’ as Paul told us.”);

when leaders are to speak (” it will be at the end of the meeting”);

 when to refuse an assignment (never);

 when to ask to be relieved of an assignment (also, never);

when to go to our leaders for counsel (again, never);

 and what to talk about during funerals

(we should not talk “about the deceased” but “instead …

about the Atonement, the Resurrection,

and the comforting promises revealed in the scriptures.”).

 And that’s all from just one talk.

We are to “follow the prophet” because

 “he knows the way,” even if following

 means violating our conscience.

For example, during the Proposition 8 campaign, bishops were told to bring each of their congregants in and urge them to volunteer and donate for the campaign. One man I know was a bishop in California at the time but was adamantly opposed to Proposition 8.

Yet, he dutifully called on his ward members to contribute, and because the church had asked him to set an example, he donated $5,000 to the Yes on 8 campaigns, even though he later voted against the measure.


Likewise, we are never

to criticize our

leaders, even if

 the criticism is true.

Expressing any

disagreement with the church

is usually seen as

“facing the wrong way,”

 “ark steadying,”

or simply apostasy.

Heaven help you if you are

a homosexual,

 feminist,

or “so-called intellectual,” or

you’ll be considered a threat.


2024 Автор Юри Рюнтю о Русской Речи: / http://stihi.ru/diary/yuri2005/2023-12-07 / 2023


Русская напевность и растяжка длиннот в звуке,
Русская неторопливая вязь слов,
Русское ощущение природы и человека,
Русская внутренняя скромность,
Русская духовность за 1025 лет,
Русское православие за 1025 лет,
Русская обрядность… 1025 лет.
Как много чистого и красивого - в этих смысловых звукосочетаниях...


2024 автор / http://stihi.ru/avtor/yuri2005 / Рюнтю Юри 19 Лeт 2005-2024 на Стихи.Pу / http://stihi.ru/2023/11/02/3340 / Runtu is a technical writer and editor living in Salt Lake City. A collection of articles published by Runtu /


2024 автор / http://proza.ru/2006/04/14-339 / Рюнтю Юри 18 Лeт 2006-2024 на Проза. Pу / http://proza.ru/2023/11/02/800 / 2024


Этo учит : обуздывать ярость, если она вспыхивает / http://stihi.ru/diary/yuri2005/2023-12-07 /
Этo учит : распознавать гнев до его превращения в насилие.


2005 - 2024 / http://stihi.ru/diary/yuri2005/2023-11-01 / Стихи.ру - это Грандиозное и Единственное на планете Земля - Явление в Мировой Культурологии из России - / http://stihi.ru/avtor/yuri2005 / Media TV Radio : 2024



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10 Драма : 575-620 : Пророк Mухаммед и Жена Xадиджа / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/13/9014 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


Драма о Пророке Mухаммеде и Красавице и Умнице жене Xадидже :


Биография основателя ислама, Великого пророка Мухаммеда:


родился 22 апреля 571, в городе - Мекке


скончался 8 июня 632, в городе - Медине


В Медине - его гробница — место поклонения десятков миллионов пилигримов Ислама.

2022 : Театральная Пьеса : Драма - Пророк Mухаммед и Xадиджа - как - Эталоны Человеческой Морали и Семьи, и как - Выдающиеся Личности и Высокая Интеллектуальная и Духовная Элита Человечества : Историческая Драма на Исламскую тему и Мировая Культура : Россия - Европа - Азия и Арабский Мир : 575-620 г.г./ http://stihi.ru/2022/03/13/9014 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia : 2022


Мухаммед и Иисус Христос для нас символы духовности и эталоны чести, морали и общечеловеческого достоинства в отношениях между людьми на земле.


Их человеческие качества, особая чувствительность и восточный колорит душевности, помогли мне подняться до темы, которую я решил раскрыть для собратьев христиан.


Теплота друзей из мусульман вокруг меня - открыла путь, о котором я не догадывался. Я взглянул на Коран - их глазами. Коран распахнул мое европейское сердце. И тут я понял, что суть Святой Книги - КОРАНА - родилась из мусульманской семьи. Здесь - семейные разговоры в семье Mухаммеда и Xадиджи - и осмысление : Сути и Предназначенности Человеческой Жизни и Космического Мироздания с присутствием БОГА. Живым Источником всего на Свете - были отношения между : Мужем и Женой, чем и была : их святая и трепетная любовь : Любовь Пророка Mухаммеда и Xадиджи... Все ЭТО - выражено мной с Трепетом и Уважением в текстах пьесы " Пророк Mухаммед и Xадиджа : 575-620 годы " к их Грандиозным Судьбам. Моя любовь к НИМ - искренна и смиренна.



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8 Драма : 1997-2030 : Дети и Внуки Братьев Карамазовых / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/13/4642 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


7 Драма : 1936-1940 : Смерть Собора Святого Духа / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/12/7912 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


6 Драма : 1930-1964 : Русский Сальери Борис Пастернак и Марина Цветаева / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/12/1541 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


5 Драма : 1922-1930 : Лубянка Владимира Маяковского и Лилии Брик / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/11/7832 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


4 Драма : 1919-1925 : Ад Есенина Cернея и Айседоры Дункан / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/10/5517 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


3 Драма : 1917 - 1921 : Тайна Александра Блока : Первая Мировая Война : WWI / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/10/4930 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


2 Драма : 1915-1945 : ЖИЗНЬ МАТВЕЯ : Вторая Мировая Война : WWII и Первая Мировая Война : WWI / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/10/417 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022


1 Драма : 1914 - 1918 : Жена и Мать : Царь Николай II : Первая Мировая Война : WWI / http://stihi.ru/2022/03/10/703 / Iouri Runtu: French / Юри Рюнтю : Russian / Uri Runtu: English : Yuri Ryuntyu / Canberra ACT Australia / 2022



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