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“Christianity is Becoming Inconvenient for Everyone Willing to Destabilize Global Situation”

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“Christianity is Becoming Inconvenient for Everyone Willing to Destabilize Global Situation”

14.07.2016

Will the 21st century become the time of christianophobia? Why precisely this religion became the aim for both Western liberal globalists and pseudo-Islamic radical extremists? And above all – what can we set against the crackdown on traditional values? This was the topic of the round-table discussion organized by the Expert Centre of the World Russian Public Assembly.

The cause for this discussion was a report, prepared by the experts of the World Russian Public Assembly (WRPA), “Global Challenges: Religion and Secularism in the Modern World”. The main topic of the report is harassment of Christians, which has become one of the main tendencies lately. And as the head of the WRPA Expert Centre Aleksandr Rudakov mentioned, it happens not in a distinct part of the civilized world, but in the West and East at the same time. “We have to understand, whether these are two different processes or just two lines of the same one, connected with each other”, - said Aleksandr Rudakov.

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According to a member of the Inter-Assembly Association of the Russian Orthodox Church Arkadiy Maler, “Christianity is becoming inconvenient for everyone willing to destabilize global situation”. In the Middle East, it has taken the most radical forms of Christian genocide. Due to reprisals and escape to other countries, numbers of Christian communities in the region has fallen significantly. Not only genocide of people is going on, but also of the memory, that someday the religion itself was born there – by means of cleaning up the Christian heritage.  


At the same time, evident discrimination of Christian moral and traditions votaries has emerged in the “civilized” West. According to Arkadiy Maler, “Christians in the West are deemed as a marginal group, which has to fight for a right to survive, wear crucifix and believe in God”. The situation reaches absurd sometimes – militant atheists do not only criticize, but also offend relics, when they declare the Christians’ attempts to call to coram a violation of the freedom of speech.


According to the author of the report, these processes are connected. He emphasizes that in spite of “all the external antagonism, Atlantic “anticivilization” protagonists and pseudo-Islamic extremism are acting as an entire front in order to destroy stable traditional societies. In practice, these processes are two millstones of one destructive process, which prevents creation of a balanced multipolar world”.


According to the President of the National Strategy Institute Mikhail Remizov, such a unity of purposes has a distinctive reason – both of them have a purpose to explode the current cultural model and to destroy the traditional society. He reminded the main purposes of the globalism apologists: desovereignization, blurring national level authorities, making minority constituencies a new civil religion, justification of meddling into affairs of other countries. As it is explained in the report, the purpose of “the new religion” is to praise individual egoism, free from any spiritual and moral “prejudices”.  


The Western civilization has also placed a premium on the death cult and indiscriminate killings with consequent ideological justification, political expert Vladimir Lepekhin says. He reminded, that millions of people have died after the end of World War II and it all happened with the participation of the USA, as they justify this kind of approach by their special right for “uniqueness”.


All of these brings to mind an unavoidable conclusion, that the emergence of ISIL, which is outlawed in Russia, with their affection to theatrical executions, is not only connected with Islamic radicalism, but even more – with Western left-wing liberal project, says writer and social commentator Egor Holmogorov. “It is now allowed to torture, stab and kill in the name of feminism, ecology and racial equality”, - he says. Thus, society divided in constituencies, is starting to destroy itself.


It is clear, that harassment of Christians is not a new invention. President of Traditional Christian Heritage Saving Association “Christian World” Aleksei Cherkizov reminded, that this happened several times only during 20th century. In particular, from 1916 to 1922, nearly 4 million of Christians were killed – Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians were killed based on religious principle. Mass annihilation of orthodox priests was also going on in Russia after the October Revolution. The problem is that these processes have not still got their due evaluation, and thus, they are continuing now.


The authors of the report deem the way out in saving religious values – “in rejection of militant secularization model and in rejection of militant imposition of religion. According to Mikhail Remizov, a secular state does not block saving religious values, which often match the society’s cultural values. “Secularity is a border for state and church bindings, but not for culture”, - he said.  


At the same time, Christians understand the threat and they are ready to resist it. As deputy chairman of Synodal Department of Church Relations to the Public and Media Vakhtang Kipshidze said, emergence of the term “christianophobia” in the UN and European Parliament documents is a good sign itself. Several years ago, this kind of situation could not even be imagined, because all the attempts of Christians to declare violation of their rights on official level were violently suppressed. “But Christian rights defenders were able to change this situation, having achieved its discussion at the expert level”, - he said.


The report’s authors suppose at the same time, that the militant liberal ideology is starting to cause a tough response in the West itself – Donald Trump’s success and Brexit confirm this. And it means that the society’s powers are able to provide resistance.  


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