{"id":8841,"date":"2013-11-03T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2013-11-03T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:35:18","slug":"vladimir-kirill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/vladimir-kirill\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir & Kirill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fili,<\/a>There were some here in the US, particularly a few on the Religious Right, who failed to appreciate the extent to which the Pussy Rioters’ decision to stage their brief event in a cathedral was not just some childish blasphemy, but a very deliberate protest against the way in which the Russian Orthodox church was using, and being used by, the Putin Regime, a process which some might consider to be rather more of a descration than a few seconds of mime near an altar. <\/p>\n

Now here\u2019s this<\/a> from Window on Eurasia:<\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin at Valdai and Patriarch Kirill at the more recent World Russian Popular Assembly chose exactly the same themes: \u201cisolationism and the opposition of Russia to the West, Russia\u2019s moral supremacy over other countries and especially \u2018rotten\u2019 Western democracy, and Russia\u2019s special path as a great power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taken together, Roman Lunkin, a leading Russian specialist on religious affairs at the Institute of Europe of the Academy of Sciences, says, these constitute \u201ca farewell to democracy,\u201d something that Kirill has been promoting since long before he became patriarch but that until now Russian leaders would not have permitted themselves to say so explicitly\u2026<\/p>\n

In speech after speech…Kirill has spoken about the unique qualities of the Russian people and about \u201cthe need to build a corporate Orthodox state on the basis of the concept of \u2018Russian civilization.\u2019\u201d Earlier, he spoke about democracy only as \u201cthe harmonization of the interests of the authorities and the people.\u201d Now, he has dispensed with that.<\/p>\n

Moreover, this year as he has in the recent past, the patriarch rejected the notion of universal human rights and said that \u201cthe observance of traditional moral values and way of live\u201d must have \u201cprimacy,\u201d even if that requires the use of force by the state itself, views that have attracted many Russian nationalists to his side, even if they are not especially religious.<\/p>\n

And, Lunkin continues, \u201cit is no accident that the patriarch cited the philosopher Ivan Ilin who spoke for the establishment of a corporate-social strata national-orthodox state\u201d and who infamously but consistently \u201cgreeted at the outset national socialism in Germany\u201d under Adolf Hitler.\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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