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” Holy Water ”, 2024, by by Kaj Stenvall. |
Secretary
Oleksiy Danilov of Ukraine’s National Security Council said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, is a devil.
What does it means?
In the mind of the Kremlin and in the explicit words of Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill, the current invasion of Ukraine is some kind of “a metaphysical battle,” for which the Russian Orthodox Church has been happy to provide ideological justification.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, we have been reminded that a centuries-long struggle continues against imperial forces seeking to eliminate Ukrainian identity, church life, and the very right of Ukrainians to exist.
As was the case during the Czarist and Soviet eras, the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a leading role in these efforts.
“Any war must have guns and ideas. In this war, the Kremlin has provided the guns, and I believe the Russian Orthodox Church is providing the ideas,”
says states Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, an Orthodox priest and theologian who in the 2000s worked in the central offices of the Moscow Patriarchate and is now a professor at Loyola Marymount University in California.
In addition, Kirill is a very corrupt Sin-Eater who deals with indulgence trade.