Feast of isolationism

The Day of National Unity, which successfully replaced the "Red Day of the calendar", can rightfully be considered a holiday of isolationism. And the point is not even that it takes place against the backdrop of rallies and processions of various nationalist forces, but in the mythologems accompanying it.

Moderate patriots today make the requirements that many liberals share: personality inviolability, freedom of conscience, words, meetings and unions. They talk about the release of prisoners of conscience, about the vowel of judicial and prison reform, the reform of law enforcement agencies under the control of the company and other correct things. But how many of them are these moderate? “Russian marches” are inevitably connected with the atmosphere in which Xenophobic slogans and provocative gestures are the most common, and the police will have to work a lot to not at all. The organizers of the action, which, like last year, will be held in the metropolitan district of Lublin, assure that there will be no Zig Hale. That this is generally a modernization project. According to the chairman of the National Council of the DPNI Vladimir Ermolaev, those who will go to the procession on November 4, then go to raise domestic science in Skolkovo, will be built by the modernization business.

So it may be. As experience shows, isolationism, fundamentalism and high technologies are easily combined with each other. Like it or not, in the minds of the participants of the “Russian march” the yeast of neo -humanity, neo -Nazism and other “neo” roam.

By tradition, Orthodox believers take part in the “Russian march”. True, there are very few of them. They gather separately in other places, next to the Moscow temple of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka, for example, but there are also few of them. Political Orthodoxy seems to have lost passionarity. Yes, and the official church is released from him. The trial of Konstantin Dushenov, who is now serving a punishment for anti -Semitism, showed this with all the clarity. But fundamentalism still has a powerful effect on the configuration of intra-church policy and does not allow the church to redistribute symbolic capital.

One of the striking examples of this influence is the open appeal of the clergy and laity of the Chisinau Metropolis to the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill with a demand to stop all sorts of interfaith ties. After that, a new anti -ecumenical wave rose in the Russian Orthodox Church. The protodiacon, who tried to extinguish her, was running into the scandal. During the performance at the Chisinau Institute, he was attacked by the activists of the Society of the Holy Matrona of Moscow, he was even shot down by glasses. Earlier, in an interview with Moldavian television, Protodiacon Andrei called this group “a completely completed sect”.

If we take the Catholic component of anti -ecumenism, then it feeds on just the day of popular unity. The Orthodox-Catholic dialogue depended on us directly on the struggle of Rus' and Poland. The Greeks and Italians found ways to get out of old enmity, to establish good ties, to joint prayers. And everything is moving very tight. The past of Pope, Pole John Paul II, a great man, in which a breakthrough in the relationship of the two churches could indeed take place, was not allowed into Russia. And the current Benedict, they are also in no hurry to invite. Numerous historical grievances warm up the jealousy of the fighters for the purity of Orthodoxy, and officials - this is how it turns out - even glad to this circumstance.

No matter how much Patriarch Kirill said that this holiday was established in honor of the unification of the people, the result of which was the salvation of the country from imminent death, the “zealots” read it completely different: turn their backs to the west, to Catholic heretics.

Of course, the Day of National Unity also absorbs the church holiday of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Many believers will come to worship. But what sermons after the liturgy will they hear? About overcoming the turmoil or about something else?

There is no doubt that the highest church ranks will be in the company with secular leaders: they will take part in the opening of exhibitions, visit concerts and other promotions. And these games also work on the isolationist context of what is happening.

In the last decade, we see the unhurried drift of Russian Orthodoxy towards ethno -nationalism. And it is connected, by the way, with the abandonment of universalness, with the desire to fit into the civilizational paradigms. As part of the civilizational approach, the ROC MP abandoned the mission in the West, or rather, limited it to Russian emigrants. Like, you, Catholics, engage in your peoples, and we are your own. Orthodoxy, therefore, is considered as an element of self -identification. The temple turns into a club for emigrants, into a kind of psychotherapeutic cabinet.

In Russia, it seems that this is not so. But civilization games directed, in particular, against the Catholics Poles, do not allow the ROC MP to find genuine universe. After all, universality is inconceivable without the revival and renewal of church life, a return to openness, to a responsible dialogue. It is this, and not at all the expansion of the geographical sphere of influence and an increase in the formal number of those who “identify themselves with the Orthodox tradition”, really puts the church in the center of life of both the individual people and the whole world.

The fear of the West, the fear of changes strongly interfere with the missionary activity of the Russian Orthodox Church MP. An example is the recent collision of the Krasnoyarsk Archbishop Anthony to Archpriest Gennady Fast. The famous priest was charged with “evasion into the heresy of Protestantism”: the service of the liturgy in Russian (in fact, reading the Apostle in Russian) and other horrors of “Kochetkovism”, and removed from the post of head of the diocesan missionary department.

In conclusion, one consideration. The day of popular unity in popularity among the population is one of the last places. He has already played the role of an alternative on November 7. There is no reason to leave it red, non -working, during the day.