For the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, the occupiers who killed 10,000 people do not constitute a problem, while two exarchs do. After the provision of the Tomos in Ukraine, a powerful center of social legitimacy will be created, and Moscow will no longer be able to use faith and the Church to disguise its insidious intentions.
For the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, the occupiers who killed 10,000 people do not constitute a problem, while two exarchs do. After the provision of the Tomos in Ukraine, a powerful center of social legitimacy will be created, and Moscow will no longer be able to use faith and the Church to disguise its insidious intentions.
This was stated by politics scholar Oleksandr Paliy on ZIK TV channel.
As it has been reported, the Holy Synod of the UOC-MP demanded that the exarchs appointed by the Constantinople Patriarch leave the “canonical territory” of the UOC-MP. The relevant statement was made after the session, which took place on September 25 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Answering a question about what the resistance that the UOC (MP) makes against the Tomos is indicative of and what the consequences of it might be, Mr. Paliy said that huge shifts were taking place, which would lead to the creation of a very powerful center of social legitimacy in Ukraine. “Moscow will no longer be able to use faith and the Church to disguise its insidious and non-ecclesial intentions,” answered the political observer.
According to him, the statement of the UOC-MP testifies, first of all, to extreme nervousness, the loss of soil under their feet. That is, according to the political scientist, they got involved in self-denunciation. “The UOC-MP did not appeal to Russian troops, to the Russian political leadership, to Putin in order to bring the invaders out of Ukraine. For them, the occupiers who killed 10,000 people, wounded 50,000 and made one and a half million people to flee their homes, do not pose a problem, while two hierarchs do,” said Paliy.
Mr Paliy believes that this clearly demonstrates how the entity, called the Church, may lose all the ecclesiastical grounds for its existence. “Because the violation by the Russians of the commandments “you shall not kill, you shall not steal, do not wish your neighbor's fields” is not a problem for the UOC-MP. And the problem for them is the visit of two exarchs from the city from which Ukraine and our land got Christianity,” Paliy commented.