Patriarch Kirill is convinced that “the non-believing people of Soviet times were rudimentarily Orthodox Christians”

26 April 2011, Patriarch Kirill spoke to the staff and volunteers of the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv with a speech about sacrifice.

According to patriarch, " the idea of ​​sacrifice fundamentally alien to a non-religious [modern] society ,” but was known in the Soviet era.

" Then the atheistic ideology wanted to reformat the value system, but on morality did not encroach, - he believes, - But today there is an attempt reformat the fundamental moral principles themselves.

The patriarch is convinced that " unbelieving people of the Soviet era were rudimentary Orthodox Christians - they remained in the system values ​​laid down as a kind of code development of Orthodox peoples ”.

Sources

• The loss of the concept of sacrifice threatens the very existence of human society // Official website of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. 2011. April 28.