Peaks of Ukrainian Orthodoxy: Icon of the Mother of God “Fratricidal”
“Buy an icon - save a life,” advertises the main page of the Uniate Information Service of Ukraine for a charity sale of “icons” written on the lids of weapon boxes from the ATO zone.
We are talking about saving the lives of wounded “ATO heroes.” And, of course, not a word about the children and old people maimed as a result of shelling of Donbass cities by these very heroes.
Sale of icons written on boxes for cartridges, shells, grenades, etc. means of delivering the “good news” about the territorial integrity of Ukraine to the residents of Donbass, this is “an artistic event by Kiev artists... aimed at supporting the activities of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PVMS) - a non-state project to attract civilian doctors to provide assistance to civilians and military personnel in the zone of the joint forces operation (formerly ATO).”
“I asked the military what they were doing with those boxes,” says the initiator of the idea. “They said they make benches, tables out of them, or simply burn them in ovens like firewood. Then I asked to give me one box, and wrote the first icon on it - “The Virgin and Child.” So - “baby” with lowercase letters (and we are talking about the Divine Infant) - among the Ukrainian “Good Samaritans” in the original.
Which, in general, is not surprising, given the presence in guardianship council PDMSH of the famous schismatic of the Church of Christ, “Archimandrite” S. Govorun. Accordingly, the “theology” of the project is: “the transformation of death (symbolized by a weapons box) into life (which in Ukrainian culture is traditionally symbolized by an icon).”
It doesn’t even occur to the locals and their “good pastors” about what kind of “life” Ukrainian weapons carry as the “sacred” boxes are liberated.
One of the Ukrainian “icon painters” and “exarch” so-called. Patriarchate of Constantinople
“It’s a pity that it is not reported how many Donetsk residents were killed by shells from this box and how many huts were destroyed. It would be a great marketing ploy for the target audience. The price could be tripled. Minimum,” comments a wonderful Kiev publicist and editor on the position “Icon of the Mother of God” (48000 hryvnia) author's website of Oles Buzina Ivan Slavinsky - To whom is war, and to whom is mother dear.”
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