Metropolitan Agafangel: The Religion of the Antichrist for Slavic Nations
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Date of publication:
October 07, 2023. Category: Author's column.
The religion of the Antichrist for former Russians,
Ukrainians and Belarusians becomes (or has, rather, long become) a mixture of
“Orthodox-likeness” (which is in total professed by all the “official churches”
in the post-Soviet space) with a communist (atheistic) Soviet essence [inherent].
It is precisely this “explosive” combination that makes modern post-Soviet men
completely ready, guided by abstract considerations, to “reasonably” [truly]
and ideologically kill their own brothers, and the nation as a whole – [to be] completely
ready to accept the Antichrist, at that, with joy, “not for fear, but for
conscience.” ".
Orthodoxy cannot be mixed with any other
“projects”, otherwise it ceases to be Orthodoxy and turns into false faith and
ideology. The Orthodox [faithful] understood this very well as
early as in the 4th century, when the Byzantine Empire became Christian, then
true believers left large cities and became hermit monks. But, nevertheless, like
the Byzantine Empire the Russian Empire also protected monks and simply the faithful,
and so it was quite possible for them to live on its territory.
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