Nikolai Svanidze: "Church and heresy"

“Patriarch Kirill called “man-worship and the defense of rights” a global heresy. He complained that now in Russia, following the West, man has become the universal criterion of truth, and God is being expelled from human life.

That is, His Holiness calls heresy what humanity has been calling the word “humanism” for the last 500 years. This is when a person, his life, his happiness, his rights are at the center of everything, the most important thing on Earth.

Because - if this is not so, if this is not the most important thing, then - what? If not children, not the elderly, not the sick, not the poor, not the humiliated and oppressed, then who?”