Posted on 10/27/2021 7:24:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
The reality of the “communist paradise on earth” is brutal persecution and social ghettos, says the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill addressed the issue in his new interview with Forbes France.
Asked about altruism as “a third way between hyper-materialistic capitalism and revolutionary Marxism,” the Patriarch state firmly: “The desire for self-enrichment as the highest goal of life, as well as self-satisfied social egoism, are repugnant to the Christian worldview.”
Moreover, the quasi-religiosity ascribed to both capitalism and Marxism is equally unacceptable. For all its talk of creating a paradise on earth, communism and aggressive social justice led to something quite different, His Holiness continued:
We, who have passed the era of communism, know well that the idea of social justice, turned into an aggressive ideology, destroys everything around itself. Hundreds of thousands lawlessly executed for their faith, the creation of a social ghetto for hostile classes—this is the reality of the “communist paradise on earth.”
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
Meanwhile, Pope Che...
He also needs to condemn forced vaccination, as it is part of Marxist and social justice ideology.
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