Religion
The Cossacks faith is a Pravoslavny one and they see themselves as its protectors. On other hand big percentage of Cossacks on Don was of Starovers. Even in 1903 minimum 150000 from total 2.500.000 parish of Don Eparchy was of Starovers. Ataman count Matvei Platov was of Popovtsy Old Believers Family.
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“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he “lives” his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.”
—George Gurdjieff (c. 1877–1949)
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)