“You won’t pray for the dead of the terrorist act in Byelorussia… Potapov and Kishkovsky (and JP) say so… Byelorussia is a pariah state, they say so, that’s that”. Izzat so? We can honour our blood kin or we can follow these Pied Pipers to Wingnut Land… it’s our choice…
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Editor’s Foreword:
Recently, after the tragic terrorist attack in the Minsk Metro that took thirteen lives, both the OCA and the ROCOR refused to post official condolences on their official websites. I believe that two prominent archpriests with ties to American government circles are responsible for this state of affairs (and we all know how American hegemonists HATE Byelorussia for standing up to them and their plutocrat paymasters)… Fr Leonid (“Lyonyo”) Kishkovsky (OCA), who’s a member of the Council for Foreign Relations, a well-known New World Order hegemonist organisation, and Fr Victor Potapov (ROCOR), a staffer (or, at least, was at one time) at Voice of America, and a holder of an official US diplomatic passport. JP is known to be tight with Potapov (who’s part of the Beltway wingnut circuit), and it was rumoured that when JP met with the Blunder on his second American trip this year, Potapov was present (there’s no confirmation of this, but it does make perfect good sense… believe it or not, as you will). More on this later… first, some photographs of the reality of the relationship of Orthodox hierarchs with the Cuban leadership and of Orthodoxy in Cuba… it proves that the Church has no problem with states that oppose American hegemonism.
BMD
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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev (1946- ) of Moscow and all the Russias with Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz (1931- ), whilst the latter was on an official visit to Moscow
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Fidel Castro Ruz (1926- ) with Patriarch Kirill (then, a Metropolitan and head of the MP DECR) in Cuba
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Fidel Castro Ruz with Patriarch Bartholomew Archontonis of Constantinople New Rome (1940- )
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Mosaic at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Havana CUBA
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St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Havana CUBA
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St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Havana CUBA
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St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Havana CUBA
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Metropolitan Kirill Gundyaev blessing the Mother of God of Kazan Russian Orthodox Church in Havana CUBA
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Metropolitan Kirill awarding Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz with a MP church decoration
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Mother of God of Kazan Russian Orthodox Church in Havana CUBA
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Little Cuban girl on Sunday of Orthodoxy 2011
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Again, before we go further, let’s listen to His Holiness and HIS opinion of the “Free Market”:
The modern economy is built largely on fraud; it creates money out of thin air. Money is a token of human labour and of our God-given resources, such as coal, ore, and oil, along with our intelligence, physical labour, culture, and spirituality. However, every company produces its own money in the form of shares, which is passed onto the secondary market, becoming not just simple securities; they’re traded and used as items of speculation. If these mere phantasms earn billions, not even backed by labour or real capital, then, how can such an economy exist? Who’s going to pay for all of this? Why, the simple worker is going to, who produces the value behind all of this bubble. We need a fair economic system where money and capital are equivalent and are the expression of real work.
An economic system built only on the striving for profit, on indifference to the fate of people, on disregard for moral norms, is deprived of stability, and can collapse at any moment, burying the fate of people under its rubble.
If society embarks on the road of such recklessness consumption, our earth will go under. It’s already been proven that if the average level of consumption of the whole world matches that of the United States… our basic resources will run out in 40 to 50 years. God didn’t give us these resources to live like this. In this sense, the crisis may teach us much… such as restraint and rational use of our financial opportunities. The most important thing is to learn Christian asceticism. This doesn’t mean life in a cave or permanent fasting. It’s the ability to regulate one’s consumption and the condition of one’s heart, and win victory over one’s passions and instincts. It’s important that the rich and the poor alike possess these qualities. The trinkets of modern life make one giddy, and inebriate the human consciousness. People believe in advertisement, fashion, stereotypes, and this virtual world as if it were reality.
In Liberalism (here, His Holiness speaks of an ideology that’s identical with American “conservatism” (a European Liberal is someone who believes in laissez faire capitalism and who hates traditional structures)), every person is autonomous, both from God and from other people. He creates his own system of values and this ultimately leads him to losing his inner control. There is hope for an East-West dialogue, but the dialogue should not be between a “horse and rider”, but, rather, between equal partners. Holy Russia is a huge civilisational project. Others shall not guide it, it must generate its own ideas, it must offer another outlook, to which other cultures must give an answer.
His Holiness Kirill Gundyaev, Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias
Let’s keep this focused and brief. Kishkovsky, Potapov, and JP (amongst others) wish to ally the Church with the evil “free market” programme of the US Republican Party. It’s time for us to oppose them with everything to hand… they spit on His Holiness… if they spit on His Holiness, they spit on the Church, if they spit on the Church, they spit on Christ Himself, as the Church is His Body… and His Holiness DOES speak for that Body. The Republican Party programme is 180 degrees removed from what the Church teaches. Reread what His Nibs said… it’s right there! As he said, “An economic system built only on the striving for profit, on indifference to the fate of people, on disregard for moral norms, is deprived of stability, and can collapse at any moment, burying the fate of people under its rubble”. You can support the Republican Party wingnuts… or you can support His Holiness and the Church. Socialism, or any other cooperative ordering of society, is NOT under the anathema of the Church… quite the contrary! For me, there’s another reason for opposing those Church figures who want to ally us with the GOP wingnuts… they refused to say public prayers for or give public sympathy for the dead of the Minsk attack for base political reasons… they refused to honour people who’re flesh of our flesh. If they can’t even be decent enough to issue condolences at a time of loss, it speaks loudly of their character, doesn’t it? They wanted to suck up to their pals in the American government… that makes them American “Sergianists”, doesn’t it?
God does exist… and He has a delicious sense of irony. Potapov always screamed about Sergianists in the MP before the ’07 reconciliation… now, he, Kishkovsky, and JP are revealed to be cut from the same bolt of cheesy cloth. God lives… and His justice isn’t only true, it’s wry in its judgement… Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
Pray for the dead of Minsk, and pray that we be forgiven for refusing to publicly remember them as “Church”, that’s an unspeakable act of blasphemy and shocking ingratitude. Shall we, though?
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Sunday 17 April 2011
Albany NY
