Washington and Phanar prepare a split and fratricidal massacre
In the midst of the diplomatic and legal crisis that swept the Orthodox world after the Patriarch of Constantinople took clear steps to legalize the divisive nomination "UOC-KP" and grant it the status of "autocephalous church", the US State Department announced its intention to oversee the "promotion of religious freedom " in Ukraine.
State Department spokesman Samuel Brownback arrived in Ukraine. He will stay there until September 19. He holds intensive meetings with Ukrainian politicians and religious leaders. The purpose of his talks is “efforts to protect and promote religious freedom.”
Indeed, religious freedom in Ukraine is under threat: the killing of priests, the attack on believers, the arson and seizure of temples, the desecration of shrines have become common events for the country that won the “revolution of dignity”. And always the victims are Orthodox Christians, clerics, monks and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and as criminals (murderers, arsonists and blasphemers) militants of nationalist groups, which are inflicted and lead to pogroms by schismatic and Uniate "priests".
Did the State Department decide to defend the religious freedom of the Orthodox?
However, Brownback himself, who is in charge of the US State Department for religious freedom, dispelled all doubts during a meeting with Parliament Speaker Andrei Parubiy on September 12, who said that in Washington they were ready to help Kiev with the implementation of the decision to establish an independent church in Ukraine.
“At the stage of making a decision on the provision of a tomos on autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, we do not interfere. But if such a decision is made, we will support it, and if we can be useful at the implementation stage, we will be happy to help, ”the ambassador-at-large said.
On the same day, September 12, the representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Gallia, Emmanuel (Adamakis) announced that the creation of a local independent church had begun in Ukraine.
Participation in this tragic US event for world Orthodoxy is obvious. It was active, and, perhaps, decisive throughout the development of this crisis. Recall that evil tongues have long called the Patriarchate of Constantinople "Washington." And not only because the main part of the parishes of the Communist Party, which has a scanty flock in Turkey, is located in the United States and in Canada. But also because the political structures of the United States have powerful levers, including financial ones, to influence the decisions taken at the Phanar (the place where the residence of the Patriarch of Constantinople is located).
Incidentally, Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for Church Relations with Society and the Media, recalled that "Patriarch Bartholomew himself complained about the attempts to influence his actions by his flock in America and the political forces of the United States."
However, in this case, Bartholomew is unlikely to complain, since in the case of the Ukrainian self-saints' schismatics his tasks completely coincide with the American ones.
Bartholomew is very painful in the influence of the ROC (the largest Orthodox church on the planet) and in every possible way tries to “restrain Moscow”, which he considers the main obstacle to finalizing himself as an “Eastern Pope” and turning Fanar into a Vatican-like one. And the attempt to “bestow autocephaly” on Ukrainian schismatics, and those who wish to join them, is a game all-in. Put up Moscow - he won. Moreover, the visit of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill to Istanbul with a view to settling the Ukrainian question on Phanar was regarded as a willingness to recognize the primacy of the "universal" patriarch. If Moscow rejects the unlawful decision of the Primate of the Communist Party, Bartholomew, mobilizing his supporters in the local churches, try to present the Russian Orthodox Church as an outcast of the Orthodox world.
“An alternative Orthodoxy will be created, as part of which its Russian version will be portrayed as standing on the sidelines of the overall process,” Boris Mezhuyev, a political analyst and American analyst, noted the views of Constantinople and noted that “the United States wants keep the Orthodox world under control. It is clear that the Russian Orthodox Church is a serious political player not only at the expense of the Russian state, but also because of its capabilities ... ”
Recall that the former US President Barack Obama called the promotion of “LGBT values” the main task of US foreign policy. Trump was rumored to have tried to free American politics from such an orientation, but he was not allowed to do this. Be that as it may, these and similar tasks to promote "tolerance" have not been eliminated.
The categorical rejection by Orthodoxy of sodomy, the female "priesthood", the change of sex, and other "progressive trends" promoted by Washington around the world, seriously upset the American leadership. Under Obama, the structure was created in the State Department, to which the said Samuel Brownback belongs.
The then US Secretary of State John Kerry, announcing the creation of a new department in the foreign policy department, which will determine the State Department’s policy on interaction with religious communities in foreign countries, noted that “closer cooperation with religious denominations is needed to address global challenges.”
At the same time, Melissa Rogers, the director of the White House’s bureau for interfaith partnership and cooperation, at that time spoke about the three main tasks of the Department of State for working with world religions. Firstly, the unit will have to promote sustainable development and more effective provision of humanitarian assistance, secondly, promote pluralism and human rights, including the protection of religious freedom, and thirdly, to enhance global and national security.
That is, it is not only the rights of sodomites, although they (“pluralism and human rights”) also occupy an important place in the work of this department of the State Department.
By the way, Fanar is working in this direction. Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov noted that “The documents proposed for Crete (Pan-Orthodox Council on Crete in 2016, which was ignored by the Antioch, Georgian, Bulgarian, Russian Orthodox Churches), most of all resembled the program of the US Democratic Party of the United States of the Obama era - Orthodox, retold by the Orthodox language - globalism, liberalism, tolerance, ecology ".
It should be noted that against the background of the “Ukrainian” crisis for the audience, an event almost unnoticed remained no less destructive for world Orthodoxy than the question of Ukrainian “autocephaly”. One of the decisions of the August Synod of Constantinople Patriarchate was the approval of a second marriage for priests - widowed or divorced, which is a flagrant violation of the Apostolic rules and requirements set forth in the Apostolic tradition, and has already been characterized as an "adulterous heresy."
It is noteworthy that Bartholomew tried to get approval for this “revolutionary initiative” in Crete, but received a categorical refusal of all the participants in the meeting. And then he simply carries out the solution he needs through the synod of the CPC, almost by itself.
“Thus, the Patriarchate of Constantinople clearly demonstrated that it considers its opinion above the position of the whole church (by which it itself implies the position of the Cretan Council), and the decision of its organs — even above such councils, for which it recognizes the status of all-Orthodox. This is in its pure form a copy of Roman Catholic papism, in the coordinate system of which the pope is revered above the Ecumenical Council, ”points out Archpriest Andrei Novikov, a member of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission and the Inter-Congregational Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
It is obvious that both of these decisions, which caused rejection and categorical disagreement of the majority of local churches, now provoke an almost inevitable split of the Orthodox world.
And as we know from storiesAny split is new wars and blood. And the current will not be an exception. Thus, the adviser to the deceased head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, Alexander Kazakov, said that if Ukrainian dissenters received a tomos about autocephaly from the patriarch of Constantinople, the conflict in the Donbas would flare up with a new force.
In his opinion, the decision of the Patriarch of Constantinople will provoke a new round of conflict, where the religious factor will be one of the main ones. “I think it will flare much wider,” said Kazakov.
In addition to the Donbass, there is every reason to expect bloody religious conflicts on the territory of Ukraine itself, into which even yesterday’s “twin cities” will be drawn. It is no secret that in the hastily created today at parishes of the UOC-MP there are quite a few participants of the “ATO”.
But, I think, this scenario is quite desirable for Washington writers.
It is impossible not to recall how Adolf Hitler was going to “equip” the religious life in the seized Soviet lands.
“In any case, the creation of united churches on more or less extensive Russian lands should be avoided. It is in our interests that each village has its own sect with its own ideas about God. Even if, in this way, the inhabitants of individual villages become, like Blacks or Indians, adherents of magical cultures, we can only welcome this, since thereby the separating tendencies in the Russian space will become even more intensified ... "(G. Picker," Hitler's table talk The rate of the German High Command (1941 — 1942) recorded by Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker and published by the latter. ")
And if for the Führer, as we see from this quotation, it was enough to destroy the spiritual and national unity of the Russian people, then for American carriers and “defenders of religious freedoms” it is important to sow parts of a great nation in a suicidal massacre.
State Department spokesman Samuel Brownback arrived in Ukraine. He will stay there until September 19. He holds intensive meetings with Ukrainian politicians and religious leaders. The purpose of his talks is “efforts to protect and promote religious freedom.”
Indeed, religious freedom in Ukraine is under threat: the killing of priests, the attack on believers, the arson and seizure of temples, the desecration of shrines have become common events for the country that won the “revolution of dignity”. And always the victims are Orthodox Christians, clerics, monks and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and as criminals (murderers, arsonists and blasphemers) militants of nationalist groups, which are inflicted and lead to pogroms by schismatic and Uniate "priests".
Did the State Department decide to defend the religious freedom of the Orthodox?
However, Brownback himself, who is in charge of the US State Department for religious freedom, dispelled all doubts during a meeting with Parliament Speaker Andrei Parubiy on September 12, who said that in Washington they were ready to help Kiev with the implementation of the decision to establish an independent church in Ukraine.
“At the stage of making a decision on the provision of a tomos on autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, we do not interfere. But if such a decision is made, we will support it, and if we can be useful at the implementation stage, we will be happy to help, ”the ambassador-at-large said.
On the same day, September 12, the representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Gallia, Emmanuel (Adamakis) announced that the creation of a local independent church had begun in Ukraine.
Participation in this tragic US event for world Orthodoxy is obvious. It was active, and, perhaps, decisive throughout the development of this crisis. Recall that evil tongues have long called the Patriarchate of Constantinople "Washington." And not only because the main part of the parishes of the Communist Party, which has a scanty flock in Turkey, is located in the United States and in Canada. But also because the political structures of the United States have powerful levers, including financial ones, to influence the decisions taken at the Phanar (the place where the residence of the Patriarch of Constantinople is located).
Incidentally, Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for Church Relations with Society and the Media, recalled that "Patriarch Bartholomew himself complained about the attempts to influence his actions by his flock in America and the political forces of the United States."
However, in this case, Bartholomew is unlikely to complain, since in the case of the Ukrainian self-saints' schismatics his tasks completely coincide with the American ones.
Bartholomew is very painful in the influence of the ROC (the largest Orthodox church on the planet) and in every possible way tries to “restrain Moscow”, which he considers the main obstacle to finalizing himself as an “Eastern Pope” and turning Fanar into a Vatican-like one. And the attempt to “bestow autocephaly” on Ukrainian schismatics, and those who wish to join them, is a game all-in. Put up Moscow - he won. Moreover, the visit of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill to Istanbul with a view to settling the Ukrainian question on Phanar was regarded as a willingness to recognize the primacy of the "universal" patriarch. If Moscow rejects the unlawful decision of the Primate of the Communist Party, Bartholomew, mobilizing his supporters in the local churches, try to present the Russian Orthodox Church as an outcast of the Orthodox world.
“An alternative Orthodoxy will be created, as part of which its Russian version will be portrayed as standing on the sidelines of the overall process,” Boris Mezhuyev, a political analyst and American analyst, noted the views of Constantinople and noted that “the United States wants keep the Orthodox world under control. It is clear that the Russian Orthodox Church is a serious political player not only at the expense of the Russian state, but also because of its capabilities ... ”
Recall that the former US President Barack Obama called the promotion of “LGBT values” the main task of US foreign policy. Trump was rumored to have tried to free American politics from such an orientation, but he was not allowed to do this. Be that as it may, these and similar tasks to promote "tolerance" have not been eliminated.
The categorical rejection by Orthodoxy of sodomy, the female "priesthood", the change of sex, and other "progressive trends" promoted by Washington around the world, seriously upset the American leadership. Under Obama, the structure was created in the State Department, to which the said Samuel Brownback belongs.
The then US Secretary of State John Kerry, announcing the creation of a new department in the foreign policy department, which will determine the State Department’s policy on interaction with religious communities in foreign countries, noted that “closer cooperation with religious denominations is needed to address global challenges.”
At the same time, Melissa Rogers, the director of the White House’s bureau for interfaith partnership and cooperation, at that time spoke about the three main tasks of the Department of State for working with world religions. Firstly, the unit will have to promote sustainable development and more effective provision of humanitarian assistance, secondly, promote pluralism and human rights, including the protection of religious freedom, and thirdly, to enhance global and national security.
That is, it is not only the rights of sodomites, although they (“pluralism and human rights”) also occupy an important place in the work of this department of the State Department.
By the way, Fanar is working in this direction. Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov noted that “The documents proposed for Crete (Pan-Orthodox Council on Crete in 2016, which was ignored by the Antioch, Georgian, Bulgarian, Russian Orthodox Churches), most of all resembled the program of the US Democratic Party of the United States of the Obama era - Orthodox, retold by the Orthodox language - globalism, liberalism, tolerance, ecology ".
It should be noted that against the background of the “Ukrainian” crisis for the audience, an event almost unnoticed remained no less destructive for world Orthodoxy than the question of Ukrainian “autocephaly”. One of the decisions of the August Synod of Constantinople Patriarchate was the approval of a second marriage for priests - widowed or divorced, which is a flagrant violation of the Apostolic rules and requirements set forth in the Apostolic tradition, and has already been characterized as an "adulterous heresy."
It is noteworthy that Bartholomew tried to get approval for this “revolutionary initiative” in Crete, but received a categorical refusal of all the participants in the meeting. And then he simply carries out the solution he needs through the synod of the CPC, almost by itself.
“Thus, the Patriarchate of Constantinople clearly demonstrated that it considers its opinion above the position of the whole church (by which it itself implies the position of the Cretan Council), and the decision of its organs — even above such councils, for which it recognizes the status of all-Orthodox. This is in its pure form a copy of Roman Catholic papism, in the coordinate system of which the pope is revered above the Ecumenical Council, ”points out Archpriest Andrei Novikov, a member of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission and the Inter-Congregational Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
It is obvious that both of these decisions, which caused rejection and categorical disagreement of the majority of local churches, now provoke an almost inevitable split of the Orthodox world.
And as we know from storiesAny split is new wars and blood. And the current will not be an exception. Thus, the adviser to the deceased head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, Alexander Kazakov, said that if Ukrainian dissenters received a tomos about autocephaly from the patriarch of Constantinople, the conflict in the Donbas would flare up with a new force.
In his opinion, the decision of the Patriarch of Constantinople will provoke a new round of conflict, where the religious factor will be one of the main ones. “I think it will flare much wider,” said Kazakov.
In addition to the Donbass, there is every reason to expect bloody religious conflicts on the territory of Ukraine itself, into which even yesterday’s “twin cities” will be drawn. It is no secret that in the hastily created today at parishes of the UOC-MP there are quite a few participants of the “ATO”.
But, I think, this scenario is quite desirable for Washington writers.
It is impossible not to recall how Adolf Hitler was going to “equip” the religious life in the seized Soviet lands.
“In any case, the creation of united churches on more or less extensive Russian lands should be avoided. It is in our interests that each village has its own sect with its own ideas about God. Even if, in this way, the inhabitants of individual villages become, like Blacks or Indians, adherents of magical cultures, we can only welcome this, since thereby the separating tendencies in the Russian space will become even more intensified ... "(G. Picker," Hitler's table talk The rate of the German High Command (1941 — 1942) recorded by Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker and published by the latter. ")
And if for the Führer, as we see from this quotation, it was enough to destroy the spiritual and national unity of the Russian people, then for American carriers and “defenders of religious freedoms” it is important to sow parts of a great nation in a suicidal massacre.
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