Rostov Metropolitan Advises Parishioner to Kill Her Annoying Husband

Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk and head of the Don Metropolitanate Mercury (Igor Ivanov) advised a church parishioner to kill her husband who had become tiresome to her. He himself told about this in an interview with the Don 24 TV channel. The broadcast was noticed by the publication Kavkaz.Realii.

In a conversation with the host of the program "Strictly Personal," the Metropolitan told about a case when a parishioner came to him and complained about her husband. She shared that after 40 years of marriage, her husband began to irritate her: he shuffled his feet and did not clean up after himself. The woman asked the priest to give her advice.

"I told her: "Kill him." She said: "How?" Very simple. Quietly, calmly put arsenic in his food. Well, no one will think that you poisoned him with arsenic. He will quietly and quietly kick the bucket. She said: "I can't do this!" If you can't, then endure it. You loved him, he loves you and endures it too," the Metropolitan answered the woman.

In the Don diocese, Podyom was told that the priest was using “shock therapy” in this way.

"The Metropolitan's proposal to a parishioner to poison her husband was not a declaration of action, but a regular shock therapy. This is clear to anyone when considering the phrase in context. If you watch the entire program, it is absolutely obvious that the bishop is using the usual technique of compositional absurdity, bringing the picture to a state of nonsense in a meaningful way, so that the person would wake up... This is a rhetorical figure that allows a person to sober up a little. Bringing a situation to the point of absurdity is often used in speech along with other literary techniques," the Telegram channel's interlocutor said.

He added that the phrase about poisoning was “taken out of context for the sake of a scandalous headline.”

Metropolitan Mercury is included in the list of warmongers maintained by the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

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