Direct support of the operation to “protect the Donbass” by hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church leads to its blockade in the Christian world

The position of Patriarch Kirill, regarding what the authorities of the Russian Federation are called the “special military operation” (hereinafter - Svo) in Ukraine, is unacceptable not that for most Christians of the world, but also for the free part of the flock of the Russian Orthodox Church itself. Evidence of this is a letter calling for active peacekeeping, which was signed by more than 250 clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, a spontaneous refusal to commemorate the Patriarch in Ukrainian dioceses and on some foreign parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church, the statement of the Synod and the Primate of the Ukrainian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, conquering the patriarch to “raise a question” before Putin.

The sources of the "New" in the Moscow Patriarchate agree that the Patriarch knew in advance about his. If this is so, then in a new way his words are heard in the appeal to the soldiers on the “peaceful” day of February 23: “There are no wars without sacrifice.” In his resolution of March 1, Cyril called rejection his "political preference." On forgiven Sunday, March 6, he already spoke about the “real ( the word that we, unlike the Patriarch, are forbidden to use. - Ed. )”, Finding a completely phantasmagoric explanation of what is happening - as if “from a religious point of view”.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church considers his head to “deteriorate the political situation in the Donbass”, where for 8 years attempts continued “to destroy what has existed in the Donbass.”

Do you think this is the “Russian world” or the democracy of the “people's republics”? No, it turns out, the main value of Donbass, which justifies the current actions of the Russian Federation, is ... disagreement to conduct a gay parade!

Because of this, people are dying, and the Orthodox, located in the territory controlled by Ukraine, chose for themselves the “path of the least resistance”, they “do not reflect on everything that we are thinking about today, but go dutifully along the path that the powerful of this world indicate.” The Patriarch graciously admitted that he did not condemn them and does not invite anyone to "ascend the cross." However, he recognized only the suffering of the “brothers in the Donbass”, with whom “we cannot but be”, and called for praying only for the “long -suffering Donbass land”.

He spoke even less “diplomatically” on the same forgiven Sunday, when the Orthodox Church calls for reconciliation, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC) Metropolitan Cornelius (Titov). “New” has already noted that this religious figure openly expresses what Patriarch Kirill is only hinting at. Cornelius completely supported and approved the actions of our army, saying that in Ukraine they killed “only because you think and speak Russian. Slavic peoples do not want to endure this lawlessness anymore. " He calls for the Ukrainian side to "lay down the weapon" and "stop genocide, madness."

This position means for the RPSC a loss of 60 of its parishes in Ukraine and a break with a fraternal church, the center of which is located in Romania ...

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The arguments about his as the only way to avoid a gay parade in Donetsk or not to be killed for the Russian language are not exhausted by the “Orthodox” apology of this operation. The key point is the non -recognition of the ethnocultural identity of Ukrainians and, accordingly, Ukrainian statehood. That is, slogans such as “one people; One country; Little Russia/Novorosia; Holy Rus'. " In recent decades, this ideology has been developed by marginal Orthodox groups such as the “Union of Orthodox Citizens” or the “Association of Orthodox Experts” (APE), which were seriously not one in the political leadership of the country, but also in the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, the APE leader Kirill Frolov headed the Ukrainian Department at the CIS Institute of Constantine Zatulin and wrote a programmatic manifesto of the destruction of Ukraine as Anti-Russia.

Today, Frolov complains that the Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church took a passive and waiting position in relation to his -

Only the Patriarch, Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) and the Archbishop of Syktyvkar Pitim (Volochkov) made it clear that they agree to share responsibility with Putin.

The “fifth column” of peacekeepers, according to him, operates in the synodal departments of the Patriarchate (a hint of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeeva)), in general church doctoral studies, and half of the episcopate generally has Ukrainian origin and identity .

The turning point of the historical moment that we are experiencing “opened many thoughts” in the Russian Orthodox Church. Both supporters and opponents of the “demilitarization” of Ukraine committed their moral “camming outs”. The most devoted to Moscow, the Ukrainian hierarch - Metropolitan Ternopol Sergius (Gensitsky) - officially returned to Putin the Order of Friendship received from him 10 years ago. Not too much fan of Ukrainian culture and religiosity, Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev took a sequential position, calling for the world. On the contrary, his former teacher in Moscow spiritual schools, Professor Alexei Osipov, completely approved his, equating the peacekeeping calls for “Tolstoy”. But the preaching of the “sweet -haired Moscow father” Artemy Vladimirov , the star of Orthodox television channels, which previously did not have a warlike rhetoric, caused a real storm in social networks. He urged not only to bring his to the end, but also to think about the “terrible future” of the Baltic states.

Suppose the Russian layman is ready to accept on faith that the Germans, the French and other Europeans who allow themselves gay parades “forgot about the horrors of Nazism” and rushed to help “Bandera” Ukraine. But what about Israel and the Jewish people - the victim of the Holocaust? The Jewish community (very influential in Ukraine - it is enough to recall the names of the "top" oligarchs) unequivocally condemned its own and supported the Kyiv authorities.

The point of no return was the damage to the Babi Yar memorial complex. In Israel, a real wave of support for Ukraine rose, and refugee reception centers were deployed.

The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as the ultra -subject informals, have been able to convince the Kremlin over the past 8 years that the “canonical Orthodoxy” in Ukraine - the one that is in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate is a reliable support. That it is persecuted and crushed by the “Bandera junta” and will meet the “Liberators” with a bell ringing. In fact, everything turned out to be completely different. And now, if it comes to the “analysis of flights”, the ideologists of St. Rus' and the “revival of Little Russia” will, say, mildly, a strict penalty from the side of the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation.