Patriarch Porfirije told Vladimir Putin that he hopes that Serbia will overcome the temptation of a "color revolution", because the Serbs know and feel that the centers of power want to develop the Serbian people's identity and culture from the West. And they have a place in the "Russian world"
Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Porphyry during his visit to Moscow, with his host Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, he spoke with the President of Russia in the Kremlin Vladimir Putin. "Vreme" publishes part of the transcript of the conversation published by the portal theology.net.
"Mr. President, I'm sorry, I'll say a few words - I don't speak Russian that well, but I understand everything. Bishop Irinej is also with me, who speaks Russian very well", Porforije began his address.
He thanked Putin for "everything he does at the level of values, because without values, without ideology - not ideology, as they would say, psychologically, but essentially - it is impossible to live".
Putin as the trump card of para-Slavism
"The Serbian people look at the Russian people as one," Profiorje continued. "Sometimes it can be that the hope of the Serbs is great, a hope that depends more on Russia, Russian politics, than on the Serbian".
He told Proforius that two weeks ago he was in Jerusalem and talked with the Patriarch of Jerusalem. They talked a lot, he says, and when they touched on the global topic of Orthodoxy, Theophilus the Third told him that "we Orthodox have one trump card".
"Which one?" Porphyry asked.
"Vladimir Putin," replied the Patriarch of Jerusalem.
"Those words say it all," Porfiry told Putin.
Then he underlined that he has very good relations with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and that he sends Putin a greeting and a message that on May 9, on Victory Day, he will be in Moscow "regardless of the circumstances in Europe".
The Temptation of the "Color Revolution"
"My desire and the desire of the majority in our church is that in the future, if there is a new geopolitical demarcation, we will be close in the Russian environment," Porfirje said.
"In the Russian world," Irenaeus corrected him.
"Yes, in the Russian world, in the Orthodox world," Porfiorius continued.
He says that he talked to Kril about Orthodoxy and told him that "these days we have a revolution too."
"What's his name?" Porphyry asked Irenaeus.
"Colored," answered Irinej
"Colored revolution", continued the Serbian patriarch. "You know that. I hope we will overcome that temptation, as they would say. Because we know and feel that the centers of power want to develop the Serbian people's identity and culture from the West."
Demonic West
Patriarch Kirill then explained to President Putin that "love for Russians, for the Russian people, for the Russian Church is organically embedded in the culture of Serbia, the Serbian people."
"That's why for us they are our closest friends, our brothers - both in spirit and in philosophy of life. This is very important: when we discuss problems together, and when we meet on inter-Orthodox platforms - the Serbian Church is the closest church to us," said the Russian patriarch.
The Serbs are, of course, further west than the Russians, Kirill continued, that's what God ordained. It is a church that comes face-to-face with the Western world, from which it probably received and received a lot of useful things in the scientific and cultural fields.
"But what is happening today with human morality, with morality in the West - I will say it out loud, I have nothing to be ashamed of - it is all demonic," said Kirill.
"Yes," Porphyry confirmed.
“Why demonic?” Cyril continued. "Because the demon's task is for man to lose the difference between good and evil. There is none. There is an alternative behavior. The Church says: this is not the way to act. And the word of God says: this is not the way to act. And modern secular culture says: why not, a person is free to act as he wants, it is simply freedom of choice."
Alliance with the SPC in defense of morality
And that approach destroys the moral foundations of human existence, and this can be followed by terrible civilizational catastrophes, Kirill explained. Because if this integrity of the human personality is destroyed, then everything else collapses from there.
"The Russian Orthodox Church, as you know, stands on these positions, we defend them on international platforms. But we also, of course, need such good allies," said the Russian patriarch to Vladimir Putin.
And the Serbian Patriarch and Metropolitan Irinej silently agreed.
Source: teologija.net
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