Russian Orthodox Ch Urges Authorities Against Leaving People Without Ideological "Wheel and Sails"

Interfax ^ | 7/24/15

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Moscow, July 23, Interfax - The authorities should not exclude themselves "from the ideological sphere, from the spirit sphere," head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said at a news conference in Moscow on Thursday.

"If it lacks this, this means that people find themselves without wheel and without sails," the priest said.

"Many today would want the authorities not to have faith, an ideological component and were just managers but I want to hope that this is not so in our history, in our future," he said.

It is necessary to overcome "the global dictatorship of the de-Christianized conscience" and "forces carrying out this dictatorship have lost their drive, same as the Soviet atheistic system lost its drive," Father Vsevolod said.

"Rus can not be pagan, can not stand without faith, can not preserve itself if it worships idols, including modern, contemporary idols of consumption, lack of ideology and some immediate goals, including political ones," he said.

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Russia is struggling to depart from communism and materialism, in an attempt to return to traditional values, while the rest of the world is being led into a modern form of communism, known as progressivism.