Putin, Moscow patriarch causing ‘division and strife’ in Orthodox Church, theologians say

From The Moscow Times

“Russian world” connected to “Russian church” termed “heresy.”

“(S)cholars and clergy at the orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University and the Volos Academy for Theological Studies published a scathing ‘Declaration on the “Russian World” Teaching.’ This ideology is, they write, ‘a false teaching which is attracting many in the Orthodox Church and has even been taken up by the Far Right and Catholic and Protestant fundamentalists.’

“The ‘Russian World’ ideology has been cited by both Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill over the past two decades. It asserts, the theologians write, that ‘there is a transnational Russian sphere or civilization, called Holy Russia or Holy Rus’, which includes Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (and sometimes Moldova and Kazakhstan), as well as ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people throughout the world.”

Kyiv, the “spiritual center(,) stands against what its adherents consider ‘the corrupt West, led by the United States and Western European nations, which has capitulated to “liberalism,” “globalization.” “Christianophobia,” “homosexual rights” promoted in gay parades, and ‘militant secularism’.”

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/15/orthodox-christian-unity-broken-by-russian-world-heresy-a76922

The Russian church’s stand against anti-Christian doctrine, practice and politics as mentioned in the above paragraph cannot logically be argued against. That other Orthodox denominations argue for those abominations and blasphemous practices makes one wonder from where they receive religious beliefs. Much of the anti-Russian, anti-Russian church statements spring from long-held animosity by Eastern Europe against Tsarist, Communist and present-day Russia. History and ethnic dislike go on for centuries.