I criticized a politician for sticking his nose in Church business and upending a thousand-year-old tradition, He purportedly did it to “remove traces of Soviet and Russian influence”. Ha. The Ukrainian Orthodox (and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) had always used the Julian calendar.
Soviet Christmas? No such thing! First, they banned all religious celebrations, including Christmas, along with Grandfather Frost (their version of Santa Claus) and Christmas trees. Then Stalin decided they could have a nice atheist pagan-ish New Year celebration, and decreed Grandfather Frost must visit on January 1, New Year’s Day (but no, not on January 7!) and New Year trees were allowed. The atheist commies had no truck with Christmas.
What Zelensky, a politician, did was break age-old *Ukrainian* tradition. For political reasons. I am not impressed. But it’s not really my business as I am not Ukrainian Orthodox nor a Ukrainian Eastern Rite Catholic. It’s not your business, either, if you don’t belong to an affected church.
Your attacks on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church decision and the resulting legislation are only getting longer and they continue, we see this anger and these attacks on many threads now, this new passion revealed on these threads show that some are really bothered when Orthodox move to the more common date.