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To the prayer service
I'm very sorry that this happened. I have many Orthodox friends and Orthodox priests who are now very hurt by the horror that is happening in the Russian Orthodox Church. But they are intimidated, the priests are especially intimidated; as a rule, they have already been repressed for their views, for example, removed from the staff. What should a person do who does not see his life outside of ministry? Climb the barricades with your cassock lifted? Probably many will write - climb.
Now imagine that someone else has taken his place, completely loyal to the trend. And by three to four hundred people in this parish in Russia there were more evil fanatics and fewer Christians. I don't know what to do. I think that my friends will still have to unite and openly oppose the dark force. To save the reputation of the Church, as Father Pavel Adelgeim is doing now. May God give them strength. But those who hesitate to enter into open confrontation should not lose your respect. Let them do what they can and where they can. Everything will come in handy.
Enormous damage to Christianity has already been and will be done. People write to me in the comments that all Christians are like this. Retarded, ready for any cruelty. Meanwhile, when lawlessness was established in the country, when the truth could not be found either in court or in government bodies, it was the Church that sometimes became the last refuge. There are examples. At least Poland from the time of Jaruzelski. It was the Church that helped the people to stand, unite and throw off the yoke. We do not and will not have such an opportunity. It turned out well for the regime with Pussy - all the covers were torn off, the last illusions melted away. You can’t help but think, maybe they’re really in uniform under their cassocks and blowing things up from the inside, like Stirlitz?
What will happen now? Well... For many years now, the authorities have been frightenedly babbling to journalists: “Anything you want, just don’t touch the Metropolitan Bureau!” Now it will be the same, only even tighter. And all in the name of Christ. How often this has happened and how infinitely sad it has happened.
Meanwhile, when the soldiers came to arrest Christ, Peter cut off the ear of one of them, the servant Malchus, with a sword. Jesus, not only cured Malchus, but also forbade further brawl.
Who reads Scripture now? The main thing is to protect “our Orthodox faith.” And the priest will explain the rest, if anything. What is Christianity like? Now I'll hit you in the head with a cross.
Christianity, tragically wrong and delightfully exalted, once erected European civilization. We want to go back to the tree. Yavol, the road down is always easier than the road up.
By the way, Hitler hated Christianity, but he didn’t have time to get there properly. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” dragged on, and then they took him for his tender spot.
By the way, it’s time to be honest and not play around. The girls will be punished not according to the criminal code, but according to the law “I want it that way.” The law is known, but its practitioners in history have had very bad endings. Well, for example, in the backyard of the Reichstag. In the carpet.