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Ringing is blessed?
Father's column Andrei Kordochkin about the abruption of good and evil
It seems about the story with Fr. Aleksia Shlyapin at the meeting of the clergy near Moscow has already been written enough. When I watched this video, it was hard to see me not to see the reaction not by the Patriarch himself, but by the clergy. When the priest was subjected to public humiliation (“And you, priest, not from Western Ukraine, by chance? Go, sit down and seriously think about everything that you blurted out here!”), Many of those present priests - not everyone, of course, began - began - began. To laugh at this priest, or rather, to laugh.
Literally on the same days, the telegram channel “Orthodoxy and Zombies” spoke about the case that few noticed. At the Church and Army section, Christmas Readings, Metropolitan Cyril, the head of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces, noted that during his performance, two priests were whispering. And he, quite adults, made them get up and stand until the end of his performance. I also remember something similar in my primary Soviet school. Non -free, inequality, non -grade.
All this, of course, poses serious questions. What is a church? We have different habits, education and so on, but we definitely believe in the same thing? What do we have in common?
The Patriarch reacted sharply, because the priest, asking the question of patriotism, fell into the most sore spot - that there is a border between the sacred and between the secular. Now it is canceled, and it is abolished defiantly with all the catechons, the “third Rome”, the “Russian world” and all other attempts by the kingdom of Caesar to declare itself the materialization and the embodiment of the kingdom of God. In a certain sense, this border is not, because our understanding of good and evil extends to all manifestations of life, including socio-political, but now it is simply turned off.
Patriotism as a form of loyalty “its own” is declared the main civil and religious virtue.
“The church cannot but be with its people,” the Patriarch replies to the priest. But on behalf of the people, power always speaks, which means that one must always be with force, weapons, money and repressive organs, because otherwise marginalization and end, right? And if he is right, then the Ukrainian Church should also be with its people and should consider its struggle the “sacred war” - only on the other side? And if, as the Patriarch spoke earlier, the victim on the battlefield washes all the sins that a person committed, then this rule works on the side, which means that the easiest way to the kingdom of God is through mutual murder? There was a zeroing - not only the presidential terms, but also all the institutions that kept the concepts of good and evil. They are either dispersed as a “memorial”*, or retires a television tower.
Yesterday I came across a link to a post in the telegram of the neo -Nazi detachment "Rusich" (252,819 subscribers). On it you can go to the marketplace and buy a poster with the head of the detachment Milchakov, who previously became famous for killing and ate a puppy. On the poster, he is depicted with a halo-knit behind his head and commandment: "I have no moral restrictions-let them do not have them either." Denacification, say? Hm. If you order right now, the order in Russia will come on February 23 - right on the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland!
I have long said that
The problem of the slogan "Where are you 8 years?" Not in his rational justification, but that he resumes all ethical prohibitions and justifies absolutely everything.
But good and evil are canceled before our eyes not in a single country, but on a planetary scale. “Are you killing? They are raped? Of course, we will help you. Just write us half of your property in advance. ” During the Second World War, it was difficult to imagine something similar. But the time of politicians has gone, and the time has come, according to the apt expression of Tikhon Dzyadko*, developers on the one hand and the Chekists on the other. They carry people from each other even more than before, and not only those who have different assessments of what is happening. The wall is growing not even between those who are hooting the collapse of the world, like Alexander Dugin, and those who cry, as the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christophe Hoysgen in their farewell speech. The gap occurs between those for whom the world collapses, because good and evil cease to exist, and those who are trying to live as if nothing had happened.
The Monk Anthony the Great said in the 4th century: “The time comes when people will be mad, and if they see someone not mad, they will rise on him and say:“ You are madly, ”because he is not similar to them.” Loyalty to the madmen - their own or a stranger - is not a criterion of virtue. Today, like yesterday, those who cry are blessed, and not those who laugh.