Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2023 0:43:51 GMT
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The Kyiv City Council is examining whether or not to demolish 74 (seventy-four) Orthodox churches in the city. All of the churches proposed for demolition belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - none of them belong to the state-supported but largely unrecognised "Orthodox Church of Ukraine".
Note that if this plan goes through, around half of the churches in Kyiv will be destroyed. Most of the churches proposed for demolition are ones that were built after the collapse of the Soviet Union, churches constructed in the 1990s and 2000s to pre-Soviet specifications using donations from ordinary, poor, struggling Ukrainian believers.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said: "Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." {Matt 12:25).
I would like to know exactly what benefit the Ukrainian government hopes to receive from this persecution they are carrying out against Ukrainian Orthodox Christians?
Some Ukrainian soldiers have said all of the soldiers they know in the Ukrainian Army are believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. They fight for Ukraine at the front, and then come home to find their church has been confiscated. This situation will boil over at some point. Even Stalin, the most monstrous persecutor of religion, who in 1937 alone had 50,000 (!) Orthodox priests shot, opened the churches and monasteries of Old Russia during the Second World War. He even ordered the Russian Orthodox Church to elect a Patriarch, a right they had been denied under the Tsars. He was shrewd enough to realise that during a war, fighting against religion for ideological reasons is a recipe for total defeat.
It is obvious that the Catholic Church will be next - some in Ukraine have already called for a ban on the activities of the Catholic Church in Ukraine if it refuses to sever unity with Rome.
The Kyiv City Council is examining whether or not to demolish 74 (seventy-four) Orthodox churches in the city. All of the churches proposed for demolition belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - none of them belong to the state-supported but largely unrecognised "Orthodox Church of Ukraine".
Note that if this plan goes through, around half of the churches in Kyiv will be destroyed. Most of the churches proposed for demolition are ones that were built after the collapse of the Soviet Union, churches constructed in the 1990s and 2000s to pre-Soviet specifications using donations from ordinary, poor, struggling Ukrainian believers.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said: "Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." {Matt 12:25).
I would like to know exactly what benefit the Ukrainian government hopes to receive from this persecution they are carrying out against Ukrainian Orthodox Christians?
Some Ukrainian soldiers have said all of the soldiers they know in the Ukrainian Army are believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. They fight for Ukraine at the front, and then come home to find their church has been confiscated. This situation will boil over at some point. Even Stalin, the most monstrous persecutor of religion, who in 1937 alone had 50,000 (!) Orthodox priests shot, opened the churches and monasteries of Old Russia during the Second World War. He even ordered the Russian Orthodox Church to elect a Patriarch, a right they had been denied under the Tsars. He was shrewd enough to realise that during a war, fighting against religion for ideological reasons is a recipe for total defeat.
It is obvious that the Catholic Church will be next - some in Ukraine have already called for a ban on the activities of the Catholic Church in Ukraine if it refuses to sever unity with Rome.