Expert: SLC’s target is to work for Ukrainian politicians
Politicians hope that the future church structure in Ukraine will be completely loyal to the authorities, believes Ruslan Bortnik .
One of the reasons for the creation of the SLC is to set up the state-run Ukrainian Church, which will obey Ukrainian politicians. This was announced by the Director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, expert Ruslan Bortnik, on the air program “The Right to Belief”.
According to him, Ukrainian politicians hope that such a Church will always be loyal, first of all, to them.
“They are mistaken,” Bortnik believes. “At best, the Church of Constantinople will be created here. No one will give Ukraine such a management tool into the hands of politicians.”
According to the political analyst, the UAOC and the Kiev Patriarchate, which today are independent, although not recognized, will simply be reassigned to Constantinople.
“They do not understand this and let it be. Later on they will be exposed to the truth: both Poroshenko’s and Timoshenko’s followers. This whole team will realize it has lost control over a third of the Orthodox,” the political expert noted.
Earlier, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry declared that today “believers are being dragged into the format of a political party” pursuing that “some politicians would become a guideline for us instead of Christ”. At the same time, Petro Poroshenko said that he sees his task in protecting Ukraine from the “foreign Church”.
