Patriarch Kirill dismisses nuclear fears, arguing Christians don’t fear ‘end of the world’
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has dismissed fears of nuclear war, arguing that rather than being afraid of the end of the world, Christians actively welcome it.
“There is no need to play along with all this. Christians are not afraid of the so-called end of the world. We are waiting for the Lord Jesus, who will come in great glory, destroy evil and judge all nations,” Kirill said.
The prospect of the apocalypse should not encourage Christians to “sit idly by”, he continued, urging them instead to act as “warriors of the Lord” to “resist evil and defend high moral ideals”.
Kirill, a staunch supporter of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine who has said that Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine would be cleansed of all their sins, regularly frames the war as Russia’s defence of its spiritual values against the “corrupting” values of the West.
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has dismissed fears of nuclear war, arguing that rather than being afraid of the end of the world, Christians actively welcome it.
“There is no need to play along with all this. Christians are not afraid of the so-called end of the world. We are waiting for the Lord Jesus, who will come in great glory, destroy evil and judge all nations,” Kirill said.
The prospect of the apocalypse should not encourage Christians to “sit idly by”, he continued, urging them instead to act as “warriors of the Lord” to “resist evil and defend high moral ideals”.
Kirill, a staunch supporter of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine who has said that Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine would be cleansed of all their sins, regularly frames the war as Russia’s defence of its spiritual values against the “corrupting” values of the West.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/11...ld-en-news
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
