What you just did is called
Whataboutism, a form of "appeal to hyprocrisy" (
Tu quoque ("You too")):
quote:
Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation. From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the Tu-quoque pattern (Latin 'you too', term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the Ad-hominem argument.
The communication intent here is often to distract from the content of a topic (red herring). The goal may also be to question the justification for criticism, the legitimacy, integrity, and fairness of the critic, which can take on the character of discrediting the criticism, which may or may not be justified. Common accusations include double standards, and hypocrisy.
No matter how hard you try to divert our attention to other blood-soaked monsters like Putin, that does not make God as depicted in the Bible any less blood-soaked nor any less of a monster.
For some appreciation of the difference in scale between how monstrous God is compared to Putin, consider how as they learn ever more of the sheer volume of government documents, hundreds of which are very clearly marked as being highly classified (based on my 40 years of training and professional experience with handling classified, they are so very clearly marked that nobody could possibly miss it), that Trump has stolen, his Republican defenders immediately turn to "But what about
Hillary's emails?!?!?!?!!" because a couple excerpts of classified info found their way onto her server
from others plus none of it was marked as classified.
So trying to exonerate Trump for his flagrantly deliberate acts of massive stealing and mishandling of government documents by pointing out Hillary's email server --
be sure to note the vast difference in scale and in deliberate actions -- would be like your trying to exonerate the God of the Bible's long history of being a blood soaked monster by pointing out that Putin is also a bad guy. Nobody's going to buy that one!
They collectively have no supernatural belief and it hardly makes them any better.
Your information is decades out of date. Christianity has had a revival in Russia since the Soviet Union ended. Orthodoxy, of course, but fundamentalism has also established itself with many ties with American fundamentalist churches and organizations (such as the Institute for Creation Research). And Russia is presenting itself as being the defender of the white race, morality, and even Christianity (Orthodoxy, of course).
Moscow is back as the
Third Rome, though with the label of
Russian World, an Orthodox concept developed in the 1990's which exalts the primacy of Russian language and culture. Putin is using Russian World to promote the recreation of the Russian Empire. That includes making Ukraine completely Russian by destroying Ukrainian culture, identity, and language in order to replace them with Russian culture, identity, and language.
Hardly indistinguishable from a religious crusade.
For that matter, Putin is himself a Christian, or at least was. He was baptized, though he did it in secret to keep his father for knowing about it. And despite Putin not now being seen as being very religious, many others in the Russian government are (I've seen Medvedev being presented as an example).
Time for you to get up to date.