National Disaster, Ending in the Revolution, Started 200 Years Beforehand—Pat. Kirill

Pravoslavie ^ | 11/7/17

[marshmallow]

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia recently expressed his view that that the causes of the October Revolution ultimately lie in events that took place 200 years beforehand. Speaking after the Divine Liturgy on Saturday, the Russian National Day of Unity, in the Kremlin Dormition Cathedral, the primate of the Russian Church spoke of events that led to a loss of faith and the spiritual darkness of the Russian people, Interfax-Religion reports.

“If we sweep aside the entire political environment connected with the events of a century ago, if we detach ourselves from this ideological view, then by this impartial view we will see a great deal, and we will understand that the beginning of our national illnesses, which led to the catastrophe a century ago, began not a year, not five years, not ten years, but at least 200 years, and perhaps even more, beforehand, when they began to destroy the spiritual foundations of the life of our enlightened society, of the so-called elite,” the patriarch said to the gathered crowed of worshipers.

According to the primate, it began “when people lost their internal sovereignty, giving their minds and souls to that which came from outside, receiving these signals from outside uncritically, exposing their faith, worldview, and view on life to these ideas.”

As Pat. Kirill stated, this “led to a loss of faith and a spiritual and intellectual darkening.”

He also noted that many ask, “And what about the Church? Why didn’t it stop it?” “And the Church has an answer to this,” he added.

“For all of its apparent prosperity, the Church was shackled hands and feet by the state… and deprived of the most important thing—the possibility of, not looking to the authorities, or to any outside power, to tell people God’s.......

[pierrem15]

I notice that in the photo the Patriarch seems to be standing in front of a historical painting depicting a defeat Polish cavalry.

[buwaya]

He blames Peter the Great pretty much.

[left that other site]

I just finished reading two 19th Century Russian Novels (The Possessed by Dostoevsky, and Anna Karenina by Tolstoy) and in BOTH of these novels there are communists, socialists, anarchists, and nihilists who express themselves in the very same way ANTIFA and others do to this day. Both Authors satirize and treat these people contemptuously, exposing their hypocrisy and duplicity in detail.

The SJW’s of today are parroting some of the oldest lies and nonsense in modern history.

And, like the modern SJW’s the characters in these novels were mostly effete, vapid, spoiled aristocrats who had nothing better to do with their time but make trouble. Their preening, sanctimonious, hypocritical, self-righteousness is so predictable as to be laughable.

BTW, especially in the Possessed, the SJWs in these novels end up losing everything, including their lives.

[Campion]

For all of its apparent prosperity, the Church was shackled hands and feet by the state

... which is the basic problem with the Anglican/Orthodox understanding of the relationship between church and state. The state always ends up telling the church how things are going to be.