In Serbia, the leader of Vojvodina separatists compared the church to a drug cartel
The controversial leader of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and co-founder of the separatist Vojvodina Front, Nenad Canak, accused the Serbian Orthodox Church, which, due to the coronavirus, does not want to sacrifice the holy sacraments.
Serbian media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The SOC does not pay taxes, does not obey the laws, calls for disobedience to the laws, with its actions endangers the health of society, elevates itself above the state,” Chanak wrote on Twitter. “The only difference between it and the drug cartel is that Colombia does not pay the dealers from the health and social budget.”
Such an attack by the leader of the Vojvodina separatists was a response to the recent sermon of the Bishop of Banat (the Banat diocese cares for approximately half of the territory of the Autonomous Region of Vojvodina) Nikanor Bogunovic, in which he called on his faithful children to observe the “anti-epidemiological” laws of the state only when they “are in agreement with God, church sacraments and Holy Scripture."
Typically, the hater of Orthodoxy and Serbian statehood, Nenad Canak, unwittingly identified with the second, when the Bishop of Banat called on believers not to obey the decrees of the authorities that restrict the flock from visiting churches and participating in the sacraments of the church. According to Bishop Nicanor, “holy communion is the best medicine,” “the church is the best hospital,” and “freedom of movement can only be limited by God.”
Bishop of Banat Nikanor Bogunovic.
At the dawn of the XNUMXs, when the bloody parade of sovereignties in Yugoslavia was coming to its logical conclusion, Nenad Canak openly declared that “without an independent Vojvodina, there will be no peace in the Balkans.” And he justified the right of his native land to separate from Serbia by “the specificity of its space, historical and economic reasons.” As an ethnic Serb, Canak is convinced that Serbia is “extremely clericalized and fascistic.” At the same time, he traditionally opposes the Serbian Orthodox Church, for the rights of any minorities to the detriment of the Serbian majority, considers the United States to be a stronghold of freedom and democracy, and blames Putin and Russia for all troubles.
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