Posted on 08/02/2010 10:52:56 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Patriarchate finance formation courses for youth leaders for mission "on the streets among the young people, promoting Christian values against the" Western philosophy "of drugs, egotism and moral relativism”. Kirill’s project to modernize the Russian Church or a political move to give the Kremlin a softer version of politicized young Nashi?
Moscow (AsiaNews) - An "army" of missionary specialists are ready to reconnect young people to religion. It is a project launched by the Moscow Patriarchate. The aim is to "distance young people from drugs, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity” and organise events to communicate to society the Church's position on contemporary issues, explains Vladimir Batrakov, a former soldier now "enrolled" in the Patriarchate course which since May has involved 100 young members. The campaign promoted by Patriarch Kirill provides training for young adults who will then create youth groups throughout the Russian Federation.
Since 1991 there has been the "Orthodox Youth” movement in the Russian Orthodox Church, an organization that works primarily with children and adolescents. What differentiates the new youth group is that it is intended to promote, together with religious values, an "anti-Western philosophy”, politics and patriotism.
Some say the project is linked to Kirill’s "temporal" ambitions, who wants to join the Putin-Medvedev tandem as an ideological leader, while others forecast the failure of the plan due to lack of funds and the difficulty of coordinating the work. Meanwhile, a new group of youth leaders has already made its first appearance at summer camps held in June by the openly pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement.
In December Kirill stressed, for the first time, the need to train leaders for the youth groups at a meeting with the leaders of the clergy. On that occasion he spoke of the importance of addressing young people in a society full of "moral relativism",..........
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Drugs and free love are not “western values”. Those were part of a KGB funded operation to undermine the West though the mental health system by the promotion of open marriage, the decriminalization of sex crimes, new age crazy concepts like, “If it feels good do it” and by the promotion of drugs as a false method of achieving enlightenment and sanity. Once in place this operation became funded by the very nations it has been attacking for decades now.
Agree. There are youtube videos of a Russian ex-KGB man who outlines it all. I forget his name.
Well. That settles it. You Tube is the final authority! /s
Sounds positive—but Drugs, Sex and Rock and Roll are not traditional western culture. Rather than work against the west they should join with the west and those who are trying to re-connect with the virtues of the Christian world. Yes, denounce the evils of the feel good Hippie Culture and work to establish the best of the west. In this fight we are allies. Remember the prophecy that the 3rd Rome (Moscow) would save European Christendom.
Regardless of the “western values” or whatever...
I think Kirill is onto something here.
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