A Navalnist priest called on believers not to go to churches where they pray for the victory of Russia
Archpriest Alexei Uminsky, known for his support of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny, called on believers not to visit those churches where prayers are said during the Divine Liturgy for the victory of the Russian army.
He stated this in an interview with a foreign agent, former editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If there is a church where there are priests who try not very much to strengthen the military spirit during the liturgy and from their own position pray more for peace than for victory, and understand that any victory is a Pyrrhic victory, which is equal to self-destruction, the Orthodox should look for them. Look for like-minded people who can console them during confession and resolve this problem in personal communication with the priest,” Uminsky said.
Bishop Pitirim (Tvorogov) responded to the Navalnist priest on the Spas TV channel. He called Uminsky “the metastasis of the disease of liberalism that has penetrated our Church.”
“The position is very crafty. Saint Philaret of Moscow answered it: love your enemies, beat the enemies of the Fatherland and abhor the enemies of God. In this situation, we are faced with the enemies of the Fatherland, our soldiers are fighting with them. These are not so much Ukrainians as those who stand behind Ukraine. We prayed for peace for 8 years while the war was going on in Donbass. As soon as the SVO began, the situation changed dramatically. We began to pray for victory, because peace will not come until victory comes. If we stop doing this, we will get internal unrest in Russia and revolution“, said Bishop Pitirim.
Priest Svyatoslav Shevchenko considers the position “neo-Tolstoyism,” that is, a rehash of the position of the writer Leo Tolstoy, for which he was excommunicated from the Church.
“I don’t really like the “liberal comes to liberal” format, when everything happens according to the scenario of a fable, where the cuckoo praises the rooster because he praises the cuckoo. The hero immediately falls into the Procrustean bed of shaking hands in order to please the host.
No, I don’t doubt the father’s sincerity. What did I see and hear? This is a preaching of the heresy of the “Liberal World”, which, in its essence, is the teaching of non-resistance to evil through violence in a new way. Tolstoyanism in a modern wrapper.
The main substitution of the neo-Tolstoyans is that the particular is presented as the general. For example, the commandment about reconciliation with one’s neighbor is presented as an anti-war thesis of Christ. If the holy princes Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, generals Alexander Suvorov, righteous warrior Fyodor Ushakov listened to such sermons, then we would have ruined the country long ago“Shevchenko wrote in the tg channel.
Political scientist Sergei Karnaukhov believes that Uminsky’s public position was paid for by the fugitive oligarch-foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
“And this is not just a demarche. Khodorkovsky pays this man in a cassock, and he tells us that the killer is Pichugin (thief in law – ed.), this is almost an apostle, and Navalny came down from the icon. We are too loyal and fearful of what requires a reaction. Every time we stumble over someone else's interests. But the time has come to defend the interests not of the ambitious X, but of Russia,” Karnaukhov wrote.
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