So Game of Thrones now will have two women on it that have played Sarah Conner.

That's not what the church is doing. Certain individuals may be doing that (or may not, ymmv depending on your favorite news source's bias). What gets lost in the now-fashionable criticism of the ROC is any sense of actual Russian history. People expect Russia to be a modern Western-aligned democracy, which is not…

Yeah, you'd think after 70 years of unremitting persecution and seeing
their people killed for their faith that they would learn their place.
-from an actual Russian Orthodox Priest.