The persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues. This is proof positive that Ukraine is governed by lunatics. It also demonstrates that Ukraine is in fact fascist. The presence of Neo Nazis in the Ukrainian military and the glorification of Naziism should have raised awareness throughout the world. But the western world has always hated Russia and so the west will support a pro Nazi regime over the Russians.
The persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a demonstration of flat out religious and ethnic hatred. Being under the spiritual authority of Moscow, the Church has been targeted for brutal repression. Imagine if during World War 2 the administration of President Roosevelt attempted to outlaw the Catholic Church and to force the formation of of a new church to replace it.
The Vatican is located in Rome. Rome was the capital of Italy, a country that Washington was at war with. Rome was subsequently occupied by the Nazis. The Roosevelt administration did not view the American Catholic Church as an enemy because American officials were logical and reasonable. They understood American Catholics looking to Rome for spiritual leadership did not make them loyal to the Axis powers.
Ukrainian leaders are not rational. They make no distinction between the spiritual and the political. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been autonomous for close to thirty five years. Its ties to Moscow are minimal. Ukraine is a brutal authoritarian government.
Democracies do not incite hatred against millions of their own citizens because of their Church affiliation. This has nothing to do with the war as the violence against the Church began years before the Russians invaded. Public officials and Police move to protect communities in democratic societies. They do not stand by and do nothing or participate in attacks against vulnerable communities.
Nazi Germany was a government that incited attacks on the Jewish community. The Turkish government incited violence against the Greek community in 1955. The disgrace and shame of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for its horrific role in the horrors playing out in Ukraine is made worse because of its own experience in Turkey. We Greeks can’t really complain about religious persecution in Turkey can we? Not when bishops in Greece and Cyprus have joined in entering into communion with the fake entity known as ‘Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”
The Ukrainian government is attempting to seize the Kiev Caves Lavra and to expel the Monks. Scientists and other secular officials have examined the relics of Saints at the Lavra. In other words, the Saints are persecuted even in death through the blasphemous treatment of their relics by the godless enemies of the Orthodox faith.
Latest outrages include the usual fascist mobs harassing clergy and faithful. At one Cathedral, pigs blood was spilled on one of the gates. A video shows blood being spilled on the cross on the gate. This incident symbolizes the satanic nature of the persecutions. The persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the same as the persecution of the early Church under the Romans.
Orthodox Christians should pray for and support the Ukrainian Church in any way possible. One has to wonder what kind of people throw pigs blood on the gate of a Cathedral. The same people who threw Christians to the lions in the Roman era.