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'Satanic Statehood'. Ukraine has outlawed the Orthodox church
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Krivoshapov
File under Things That Happen When the Church is a Department of the State.
[REGNUM] On October 19, by an absolute majority of votes, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a country “fighting for democratic values,” outlawed the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in the first reading. That is, the only canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
Are they keeping the UOC-not MP? Linking to the Greeks or Serbs, something like that?
Among those who voted for the ban on canonical Orthodoxy, the “servants of the Ukrainian people”, apparently, include not only parishioners of the Uniate Church (an experiment that has been ongoing for centuries to resubordinate the Orthodox to the Catholic Vatican), but also supporters of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) - a project of schism Ukrainian Orthodoxy and its actual dismantling under the formal patronage of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
That sounds like a yes.
The Uniate Church, which has never hidden its hostile attitude towards canonical Orthodoxy under the pretext of its ancestral ties with Russia, is linking its future less and less with Ukraine itself. And the leaders of the OCU, which emerged in 2018, with their practical actions, including the public “ blessing ” of an “icon” with images of the leaders of Ukrainian nationalism, actually prove that their organization is in fact a political project, and not a religious institution.

The decision of the Ukrainian parliamentarians looks especially expressive against the background of what the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Inna Sovsun announced the day before : the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice supported her bill on the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ukraine.

CRIMINAL LAW
“The law, which involves the destruction of the largest religious community in Ukraine, is absolutely criminal ,” comments Vakhtang Kipshidze , Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) MP . “ This law, if it comes into force, will mean increasing the suffering of many religious people who want very simple things - to believe as they are accustomed to believe, and to go to the religious community to which their fathers and grandfathers belonged.

It is this right that the Ukrainian government wants to deprive its citizens. This law is an act of cultural and spiritual self-destruction, because the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with its heritage, traditions, and its significance for the life of every Ukrainian believer is irreplaceable for the inhabitants of this country. The Ukrainian authorities want to deprive the Ukrainian people of this treasure, this spiritual support.”

The ban on the canonical church in Ukraine, according to Kipshidze, although carried out on behalf of the Ukrainian people, is implemented by external forces not associated with this people. “They are openly repressing the Ukrainian people ,” states the interlocutor of IA Regnum .

He sees the symbolism of what is happening in the fact that an essentially anti-Orthodox law was adopted in Ukraine immediately after the news about the likely imminent legalization of same-sex marriage. In other words, the current Ukrainian authorities have made their choice between Orthodox Christians and homosexuals.

“I think these are phenomena of the same order,” shares Kipshidze. — With one hand, the Ukrainian government is destroying the spiritual support of the Ukrainian people, with the other, it gives life to immoral practices that are alien to the vast majority of Ukrainians, replacing the traditional family with gay marriages. That is, they are doing something that is unthinkable and unacceptable for Ukrainian believers.”

The deputy chairman of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church MP notes that it is not yet completely clear as to how exactly this law will be implemented, although it is obvious that this legal act is insignificant from the point of view of the legislation of Ukraine itself:

“It is impossible to imagine its implementation otherwise than by force, with coercion. We’ll see how much the handful of atheists who are fighting the Ukrainian Church have the strength to destroy the entire church . ”

THE PLAN OF THE ATHEISTS IS CLEAR
In fact, not everything is so simple, agrees Archpriest Alexander (Ovcharenko), cleric of the Alexander Nevsky Church at MGIMO (until 2023, cleric of the Zaporozhye diocese of the UOC. - Ed.). Commenting for the news agency Regnum on what happened on October 19 within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, he notes: “Does this mean that from today the UOC is banned? No, it doesn’t mean that.”

After all, the church specified in the new law, according to official data from the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, simply does not exist (although the decision of the Kiev regime, as well as media and political support, clearly indicate that the law will be applied specifically to the UOC). However, the ban on 12 thousand parishes within the legal framework could last, according to the clergyman, for years.

Indeed, Archpriest Andrey (Novikov), a member of the Synodal Theological Commission of the MP, former secretary of the Odessa Diocese of the UOC MP, confirms: if you follow the law, then the nationalists have a long way to go to the formal abolition of canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine.

“When the president signs the law, they will start cutting it piece by piece ,” says Father Andrei. — There is no single UOC as a legal entity, but there is a Kiev Metropolis and a diocese for each person, a parish for each person. And where they succeed, their arrivals will be prohibited through the courts. Whatever the capacity of this system will be, the extent to which they will prohibit and take away property. And, accordingly, treat those who do not obey as lawbreakers."

Archpriest Alexander (Ovcharenko) names another potentially repressive measure. If the UOC, according to Ukrainian laws, no longer exists, then its priests and monks, from the point of view of the state, are ordinary secular citizens, with all the ensuing consequences: “now they can remove the reservation from all priests and monks who have not transferred to the OCU and send them to defend, for example, Avdiivka.”

There is nothing impossible for the current Kiev regime, points out another former clergyman of the UOC, Archpriest Andrei (Novikov): “In wartime, everyone at a rally will be tied up and thrown into prison. This is already such a brutal face of open persecutors of Christianity, aimed at destroying Orthodoxy as a fact. And they are destroying Orthodoxy not because it is connected with Russia. They are fighting against Russia because Russia is a symbol of Orthodoxy. And the man who participated in the siege of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, a Satanist named Veles, was awarded for outstanding services to the state.”

Thus, the current regime in Ukraine gives a clear signal to the Ukrainian people, the expert concludes.

“Becoming perverts, Satanists—this is what Ukrainian statehood is now intended for,” says IA Regnum’s interlocutor. - This is the path that is approved. The path for which the war is being waged against the Russian people, against Russia, against Orthodoxy. Their religion is “Ukrainian patriotism,” anti-Russian and anti-Orthodox. After all, the coming of the Antichrist, which is spoken of in the Scriptures, will be accompanied by religious worship of him. And I think that Ukraine is just such an example in miniature of the future Antichrist - the society that awaits humanity at the end of world history, with the inculcation of Satanism in all its forms.”

Father Andrey believes that the mass arrests of priests of the canonical church may well be used by the current Ukrainian regime, including to replenish the “exchange fund” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But this is not the main thing, he notes. The main goal of Ukrainian nationalists in power is precisely the destruction of Orthodoxy.

“And there are simply no other ways to protect Orthodoxy in Ukraine except to win a special operation,” sums up the clergyman.

HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN SCHISM
In October 1990, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) established the self-governing Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from more than 20 dioceses on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR with rights of broad autonomy within the ROC.

On May 27, 2022, the council of the UOC, held in Kyiv, decided on its “complete independence and independence”, making appropriate changes to the charter. In addition, the cathedral expressed disagreement with the support of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill for a special military operation.

On June 7, 2022, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church stated that changing the status of the UOC is possible only within the framework of a canonical (i.e., legal from the point of view of church law) procedure, including a resolution of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In parallel with the UOC, two large non-canonical religious organizations operated in Ukraine until December 2018: the self-proclaimed Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

After February 2014, the new authorities began to actively put forward the idea of ​​​​creating a new local church in the country from several schismatic groups, which would not be associated with the canonical UOC and the Russian church tradition.

In September 2018, the Patriarchate of Constantinople announced its readiness to create an autocephalous church in Ukraine under its patronage. The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church declared the illegality of such actions and decided to sever Eucharistic communion with the Church of Constantinople.

On December 15, 2018 in Kyiv with the participation of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and delegates of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople on the basis of the so-called. The Kyiv Patriarchate and the UAOC formed a new religious organization, called the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).


Posted by: badanov 2023-10-20
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