Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin called for resolving contradictions in the post -Soviet space peacefully

The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department on the relationship between the Church and the Society of Vsevolod Chaplin during a round table, held in the Public Chamber, urged to resolve conflicts in the post -Soviet space peacefully.

"People are called to live in peace with each other. Enmity, war, total conflict is controlled or not - it is always bad. We see it on the example of many events that have occurred and occur in the post -Soviet space. Let's see what is happening in Kyiv today! Reasonable people should resolve any contradictions in the world, help each other, and not live on the principle of total enmity of all against all," gives the words of the reward. Interfax .

At the same time, Chaplin believes that "problems that make people suffer" should be resolved in priority.

“The second principle is the principle of justice: if there is a real pain, concern of people, if problems arise that make people suffer, social, cultural, any other field, in the sphere of interethnic relations, these problems must be resolved, they should not be ignored,” he said.

Recall that earlier Vsevolod Chaplin, in an article published by the Interfax-religion portal, called on Orthodox countries, including Russia, in the dialogue with the EU does not change under its influence, but to offer it to change.

According to him, "Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria - representatives of powerful independent civilization - could well demand from the Western participants to begin to form an updated organization from a clean leaf, changing much of what is characteristic of the western part of Europe and is not characteristic of the eastern one."

In the same way, the representative of the church believes, any negotiations with the European Union should begin today “not with the humble listening of someone’s instructions, but with the question of what the European Union itself is ready to change in order to be capable of becoming a common house not only for the Western, but also for the eastern socio-political tradition.”

“The Western model of democracy is today widespread among the minority of the population of the planet, and this must finally be aware of the evidence that this model is not the only one, and insist on its universality, and even more so on adjusting to it precisely to all the peoples and all legal and political systems, to put it mildly, dishonest and unjust,” Vsevolod Chaplin believes.

According to the author of the publication, any country in which traditional religiosity is strong - Orthodox, Islamic, another - with any attempts to strictly change its legal system or, under any negotiations on the entry into one or another interstate union, should ask the participants of this union: “But they do not need to change themselves, especially in terms of values, legal and political attitudes, before unite in aljoys. With countries where there is a powerful religious and moral tradition? "

He also warned the Western elites against imposing on most countries of the world his attitudes, including in the issue of same -sex couples, recalling that in a number of countries, primarily in Greece, a serious discussion around the decision of the Grand Caught of the ECHR, which states that the Greek law provides for the possibility of entering into civilian unions only heterosexual partners, is unfolding. same -sex couples.