More Northern Iran

Last Sunday at the Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill urged believers to fight the heresies of manage. “Today,” the Patriarch said, “we are talking about the global heresy of humanity, a new idolatry that is erasing God from human life. There has never been anything like this on a global scale. It is precisely to overcome this heresy of modernity, the consequences of which can have apocalyptic events, the church should direct the power of its protection, its word, its thoughts. ” Users of social networks almost unanimously came to the conclusion that the Patriarch was trying to correspond to the antisanction trend and contributed, giving up to human rights.

After what Patriarch said, the question arises: why is the Patriarch Cyril, and not, for example, Diomid, Bishop of Chukotsky, devoid of a dignity for calls to burn passports, vicenus and Black -Hundred monarchism? When in 2008 Diomid was deprived of the dignity of the bishop, Cyril looked like a church educator, a man of free views, leading the Orthodox community to renewal. Eight years later, Cyril awkwardly repeats Diomid, and Diomid, having gone into a split from resentment, they say that the restless in the Far East wanders and feeds with alms.

In general, why did Cyril suddenly become obscurantist? Not at all his role. There is no obscurantist from it. There are better obscurantists in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Recall that at the Local Council of 2009, when the Patriarch was chosen, there was a party of poorly educated clergy, who dreamed of a popular autocracy. From her was Clement, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsky. And there was a party of the secular clergy, capable of saying a sermon without a piece of paper. She was headed by the current Patriarch Kirill and his beloved student, Archimandrite Hilarion. Oxford, who had finished by that time, wrote several luxurious monographs about medieval Syrian mystics, knowing languages.

Diomid, Bishop of Chukotsky, from resentment, having gone into a split, they say that he wanders restless in the Far East and feeds on alms.

Cyril was the head of the party of the Warriors of the Light against the Party of Black Hundred Darkness. And his victory in the elections was perceived precisely as the victory of the world warriors. As a party’s victory, focused on a soft reform in the spirit of democratic aspirations of the local cathedral of 1918.

So, the protege of Cyril, Archimandrite Hilarion, unlike a wild diomid, knew how to behave in a decent society. Soft, literary, intelligent. In the past, the composer served in Vienna. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Oxford, on a short leg with descendants of white emigrants. In pairs with Cyril, they painted a completely different future for the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Smolensk Theological Seminary, created by Cyril, while he was Bishop of Smolensky and Kaliningrad, literally teemed with teachers from Canada, Germany, France. Including Lutherans and Jesuits. Lectures gave irreconcilable anti -Soviets like Dmitry Pospelovsky . Open, incidentally, recognized in sympathy for the Ukrainian national liberation movement.

Cyril and Hilarion were opposed by bishops, who had neither a higher education nor the desire to receive it. No life experience in Europe. Simple, hard and naive guys from the working outskirts. In a folk religious one who served military service in the army. As a rule, with a fifth -drawing locksmith. We came to the monastery, worked in the farm, accepted tonsure, somehow unlearned at the correspondence department of the Moscow Theological Academy, Hirotony-and here you have a bishop.

Is Cyril suffered every time, landing at the de Gaulle airport?

They read little, spoke little. He would be the king, the Union of Michael Archangel and that women in scarves. To such fathers, the preaching of the current Patriarch on the dangers of human rights would be very to the face. It would be their swan song.

When Cyril says that the West is bad, it causes laughter. Let me, and who for so many years dissected the world as the head of the department of external church relations? Is Cyril suffered every time, landing at the de Gaulle airport? Why then did not resign and left for the Yaroslavl region? To the fog over the river and fresh milk? Or is it ascase - by despising Europe, to live a third of life in it?

When Hilarion, breaking sympathy for dissidents in himself, through power makes passes towards the Kremlin, it hurts to look at it. As if the actor of the Academic Theater undertook to master the craft of the street storyteller of sebaceous jokes. Let me, Vladyka, why did you receive a diploma in Oxford? What did you not please you, for example, the Samara Spiritual School? And why do you know English? Do not trust the great and powerful?

In the current mobilized church, people like Cyril and Hilarion should be on the sidelines. Their destiny is a closed circle. Small, necessarily a poor and unnecessary diocese to anyone somewhere west of Moscow. Pskov, Veliky Novgorod, Vologda, Arkhangelsk. To them, too intelligent and too Christian priests and monks would flow from all over Russia, they would publish a wonderful diocesan newspaper and speak cautious sermons decorated with rhetorical weaving of the word. They would be loved by a university audience, people with taste and city holy fools.

And around the whole width the northern Iran would rage with frantic bearded locksmiths on the bishopric thrones. Black -hundred, stupid, cruel, carbon monoxide. To the bone marrow, to tears, to the beating of itself with a fist in the chest loyal to the Kremlin.

They would be loved by a university audience, people with taste and city holy fools. And around the whole width the northern Iran would rage with frantic bearded locksmiths on the bishopric thrones.

The current state of affairs, when the Black -Hoiled Hierarchs and the priests associated with them, despite the demand, live the devil knows where, and liberal bishops, refined and secular, unconvincingly break the patriotic comedy, is a paradox. It shouldn't be so. They are required to change places.

Judging by what nonsense continues to carry Kiselev and Solovyov, those provincial and evil are needed. And these, with an alien education, are not needed.

Apparently, therefore, the famous lover of the Romanov dynasty, Crimea and Byzantium, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), was recently ordained bishops. If Russia decided to make the “Domostroy” Protopop Sylvester by the past, then she cannot find the best patriarch than Tikhon. Tikhon did not study at Western universities, he did not drink tea with dissidents in the kitchen and was not fond of translations from Aramaic into Russian. Tikhon is our Russian, from the Pskov-Pechersk Lavra.

Hilarion wrote too smartly about Eastern Christianity and remained far from the Russian people. They do not read, do not quote, his books are not given for his birthday. He, with his mind and abilities for literature, would be more logical to settle down at the theological faculty somewhere in Germany. Talk about Christ with the high -rise, write articles about the eternal, be bored, doubt.

Tikhon is not like that. His book “The Non -Saints” dispersed a millionth circulation. It is read and quoted by the vigorous Russian security forces, provincial intellectuals, and regulars of Orthodox fairs. Tikhon’s stories about monastic life are loved by older women. Tikhon smells the Russian people in the gut, he is flesh from the flesh. He easily finds a common language with Zastroguev combines and the Rastorguev special forces, which “come on” .

If Russia decided to make the “Domostroy” Protopop Sylvester by the past, then she cannot find the best patriarch than Tikhon Shevkunov.

Hilarion was Russia for growth. A few years ago, Russia was going to become an ordinary European country, and she would need a patriarch, similar to a professor of theology. Hilarion would look no worse than the Archbishop of Canterbury or Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church of Germany.

Shevkunov is a completely different genre. The agile diomide stamping discourse in Prilepin wrappers, Shevkunov is Russia, which is not going to grow over itself. This is Russia, confident that the whole world needs to grow before it. The advantage of Shevkunov and the thousands of a Black -Hundred party, standing behind him, is that they sincerely do not see how stupid what they say. They really, being in their right mind, are confident in their superiority over European Christians on a blue eye. In Russia, before the Crimean spring, such a faith would be a sign of insanity. Diomid lost Sana for this. Now is the time of greatness, and the minus has become a plus.

Cyril's unconvincing speech says that in the new political conditions he cannot cope. Like his successor Hilarion with his distant intelligent face. Today Russia needs another patriarch, Cyril is too secular for her. Russia needs a diomid, you need one who can be completely torn from common sense. Cyril cannot be diomid. Tikhon is more convincing. Upon maintaining the course for greatness, he will become the Patriarch, and Hilarion and several monks with an academic past will leave Moscow to internal Russia, dissolve in it and disappear.