This article grossly misrepresents the phone poll done by the Razumkov center to claim that only 22% support the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate.
I’m going to show you how bad this journalism is.
These are the actual results of the poll:
34 percent say they identify with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU)
14 percent with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)
27.6 percent, said they were Orthodox Christians but didn’t specify which they identify with.
Notice what the journalist did? He assumed that everyone who didn’t specify which they support is actually against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
There are plenty of people in Ukraine who might not be comfortable specifying which group they associate with on an anonymous phone call, I assure you. Is it really a poll or are they going to be put on some list?
Also, did you notice the name of both groups is “Ukrainian Orthodox Church”? It is not a minor chance that people under the Moscow Patriarchate correctly answer that they belong to the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” and get ticked under the other group.
A majority of churches are still under the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine, and an overwhelming majority of the monks.
I noticed the author twisted the words of the Patriarchate to make it sound like he supports violence (he didn’t), when he simply spoke out against the evil forces that want to divide the Russian Orthodox Church (many regular believers would agree with this, it isn’t controversial).
He also twisted the decision of the Georgian church as if it is political. The whole theme of the article is to twist everything about the church into something political.
He also made an interesting error when he wrote that the Greek Orthodox Church is under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Most of it isn’t, including the country of Greece
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