The percentage of faith. How to reimburse the churches of lost property?

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The tragic story , as the Russian Orthodox Church, evicts to the continent of the inhabitants of Valaam, who devoted all their lives to the island, is only one of the scandals associated with the return of church property. In the 1990s, this process was started with great enthusiasm. But now Petersburg goes to many thousands of rallies with a demand not to transfer to the Church the Isaacievsky Cathedral. Without enthusiasm, many relate to the prospect of returning the Russian Orthodox Church, the Vladimir-Suzdal inspector. The fact that not so long ago seemed a natural affair, is perceived as violence against the prevailing order of things. And often it is such.

Were we not sincere enough when we wanted to correct the crimes of Soviet power against the church, including hundreds of destroyed temples? Or the Church as an organization did not justify our hopes? Both are partly true, but the main reason is not in this, but in the field of everyday life, although it is considered a secondary one when it comes to “high matters”. In an ideological plane, you can look for and find as many many arguments for and against, and never find a point of balance, but the conflict around the Russian Orthodox Church is completely resolved pragmatically.

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