Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non-enslaved civilization’
February 26, 2015
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Describing much of Europe as “Babylon,” the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society said that “Russia is the only center of non-[en]slaved civilization,” according to the Interfax news agency.
“Our patriotism is not chauvinism,” said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin; rather, it consists in “understanding the importance of the unique Christian mission which, I believe, our people live for.”
Chaplin traced the decline of Europe from “Genoa and Venice money-lenders” to the Enlightenment, “then bourgeois structure of the society and state. Then revolution. Finally, we've got what we see in the West … At the best, it's Rome of the late period of decline.”
Western European nations, he added, “will lose their physical existence: they will just die out.”
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Feb. 27, 2015 10:42 AM ET USA
There is a joint work entitled “WITHOUT ROOTS, The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam” by Joseph Ratzinger & Marcello Pera. “Without Roots.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/ePX8D. which is worth reading about this matter.
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Feb. 27, 2015 6:59 AM ET USA
From 1992 to 2011 years Russia suffered the single greatest decline in population of any country in the world during peacetime since the 14th century plagues. It has a net immigration gain each year, but it loses population because the death rate has been much higher than the birth rate. The average woman has 6-8 abortions. What's that about a unique Christian Mission, Father Vsevolod?
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Feb. 26, 2015 10:32 AM ET USA
So I guess the rampant alcoholism in Russia doesn't count against his vision of Holy Mother Russia's "Heaven on Earth".