Once again one has to wonder if the Consecration of Russia has taken place, so that the promised conversion of "that poor nation" is happening before our eyes. Certainly the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church are bucking the European and North American trend away from Christian values. Walt wrote about this last month in "Does Russia Duma's political incorrectness mean the Fatima prophecy is being fulfilled?"
Now we have a revealing report from the Russian news agency Interfax, quoting Metropolitan Hilarion, the Orthodox Church’s chief ecumenical official, as saying that "secularization in disguise of democratization" is leading Western nations toward totalitarianism.
"This powerful energy today strives to finally break with Christianity, which controlled its totalitarian impulses during 17 centuries," said the prelate. The secularists are striving, he continued "to set up an absolute dictatorship that demands total control over each member of society. Don't we move to it when 'for the sake of security' we agree to obligatory electronic passports, dactyloscopy [fingerprint identification] for everyone, and photo cameras occurring everywhere?"
Metropolitan Hilarion was also strongly critical of the efforts of the progressive thinkers and their propagandists in the lamestream media to "make immorality normal". He gave the example of the legalization of same-sex "marriage" in France. The French socialist government "consciously and demonstratively ignored demands of people and used tear gas to disperse them."
In an article in Pravoslavnaya Beseda, the metropolitan wrote, "Nowadays [the] state sets a principle of secularity, independence from any outside authority that is authorized to point out to violations of morals or rights."
The "outside authority" is, of course, the Church, which western governments now believe -- virtually without exception! -- should have no voice, let alone influence, in affairs of state. No, not even in Ireland or Italy. Only (perhaps) in Russia.
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