Soviet nukes are “God’s grace,” says Russian church Patriarch Kirill
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), said during a sermon at the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent on 1 August that the Soviet Union's creation of the nuclear bomb was the result of divine intervention.
The patriarch delivered the sermon after the Divine Liturgy on the feast marking the uncovering of the relics of the Orthodox saint Seraphim of Sarov. The Russian Orthodox Church and its nuclear-weapons complex have long cast Seraphim as the patron saint of Russia's nuclear arsenal. Kirill credited the bomb's creation to God's mercy and, in particular, to the prayers of the saint, saying it saved the country from "terrible destruction, as a result of which neither the country nor its people could have remained."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/s...ch-kirill/
So Jesus was on the side of the Soviets after all. He gave Soviets the atom bomb to save the Soviet Union, but it fell apart anyway. Bombs didn't help.
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), said during a sermon at the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent on 1 August that the Soviet Union's creation of the nuclear bomb was the result of divine intervention.
The patriarch delivered the sermon after the Divine Liturgy on the feast marking the uncovering of the relics of the Orthodox saint Seraphim of Sarov. The Russian Orthodox Church and its nuclear-weapons complex have long cast Seraphim as the patron saint of Russia's nuclear arsenal. Kirill credited the bomb's creation to God's mercy and, in particular, to the prayers of the saint, saying it saved the country from "terrible destruction, as a result of which neither the country nor its people could have remained."
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/s...ch-kirill/
So Jesus was on the side of the Soviets after all. He gave Soviets the atom bomb to save the Soviet Union, but it fell apart anyway. Bombs didn't help.
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"
