Another shameful fake from TSN

This Sunday, our media made another anti-church information junk shot in the best traditions of Gubelman-Yaroslavsky.

The program "TSN Tyzhden" (TSN Week) began, as the address of Python to the tribe of the Bandar-log usually begins: "Listen, the Bandar-log, what the servants of the devil say ...". This time, Mr. A. Nevzorov was chosen as a devil quoter. He was introduced as a "well-known publicist and journalist". However, they did not say what he is known for among believers. And he is known for the fact that for a long time, systematically and with pleasure has been speaking slightingly of the faith. Not only in relation to Orthodoxy, but also to all other faiths, although the Orthodox believers are particularly targeted. For him, faith rests on gendarme bayonets, everything that the Church teaches is a lie, as A. Nevzorov said, "I'm an atheist… I couldn’t care less of your faith."

If you "don’t care" and are an atheist, then keep your mouth shut and do not offend the religious feelings of people who believe in God. But Nevzorov, however, offends them, and does it with obvious pleasure. And this is not atheism, it's Satanism. So, what did this blasphemer say?

"The ideological war in Ukraine will not end as long as the Russian Orthodox Church is operating here, because it is an ideological organization that siphons money from Ukraine and is fighting it with the same money." Simply put, the Russian demons gave a pass to the Ukrainian demons – and the latter took it.

I do not even want to comment on the word "ideological" because of disgust, but for the words "siphons money from Ukraine and is fighting it with this money" Mr. Nevzorov could be invited to the court – to explain how the UOC is at war with Ukraine and, if so, in which respect.

Financial transfers are very easy to control, and if the UOC transfers money to Russia, our media would not need such cheap fakes like Nevzorov's. If there were at least some more or less significant facts of the illegal or anti-state activities of the UOC, the howling of the nationalist media would echo among the ice of the Antarctic. But the war with Ukraine is under way, it's true. Only it is not waged by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, but by those who incite inter-faith confrontation in our Motherland, including TSN journalists, who called their new creation "an intriguing religious detective".

What is the intrigue? The first part of the story tells us how the Orthodox community of the village of Kinakhovtsy of 160 people decided to move to the Kiev Patriarchate. The parishioners say they did not like the Church Slavonic language of Divine Services. But the priest did not allow to take away the church, hiring security from Kiev.

You do not have to be super professional to pay attention to obvious inconsistencies:

• If there are 160 people in the community, why are there 20 at the most on camera, and only a couple of people give comments?
• If people wanted to listen to services in the Ukrainian language, who prevented them from transferring to the Kiev Patriarchate, without taking away the temple that belongs to the UOC?
• Why aren’t there any comments of the priest himself, who "terrorized" the parishioners with the help of the mercenaries from the capital, or of his flock?

Related questions arise during the whole TV spot. But in this part the answers are simple: since the Kiev Patriarchate seized the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church, the UOC community has prayed in the rector’s house. The TSN video was created with one purpose – to present to the viewer the violent takeover of the church as a peaceful transfer of the community from one denomination to another and enhance the understanding of the need for the adoption of anti-Church bill № 4128, which will make these "transfers" happen on the regular basis.

In Ukraine, there are two major Orthodox confessions. One of them is recognized by World Orthodoxy – it is the UOC, the most numerous denomination. The other one considered by all Local Churches nothing more than a sect is the so-called the Kiev Patriarchate. People have the choice of going to services to either of them. Each community lives its own life, prays and serves as it sees fit and right. The task of the state is to prevent conflicts, to ensure that there is no enmity, insults and violence on the part of different representatives of this or that confession.

But this is true for the country where there is democracy and respect for freedom of religious beliefs. While we are proposed to legally allow seizing the property of one community by another.

If there are people who want to go to churches of the UOC, and there are those wishing to go to churches of the Kiev Patriarchate, on what basis should one be allowed to grab the churches of others? Just because some do not like the language of services?

I have a house, a garden, a car, other property. Neighbors on the right and left decided to take it over. But by law they cannot do this. Then the Verkhovna Rada comes to the rescue and adopts the law that now the property of any citizen of the country will belong to the one who the residents of this street will decide on. This is Ukrainian democracy. This is what TSN advocates for in its story.

Most surprising is the blasphemous anti-Ukrainian religious policy of our media. People live as they find appropriate, pray, go to the churches they want. Why do you play one off against another? Why do you sow discord and hatred among citizens of our Motherland with your false programs? Who then works for the aggressor?

What are you doing, madmen, wake up! Not only have Ukraine been plunged into a fratricidal slaughter, not only have most of the people been made poor, not only do you continue to ravage and tear up the country with new reforms, not only do you openly promote God-opposing views on marriage and family, holding gay pride parades, you also attempt to get into our heart. What for? What do you want to achieve?

• If you drive us out of our temples by accepting the Satanic bill – we will pray on the street or at our homes.
• If you prohibit the UOC as a structure – we will ignore all your laws and assemble anywhere, even in cellars, and serve God.
• If we are persecuted and imprisoned for this – with great joy and gratitude, we will take the opportunity to suffer for Christ's sake.
• If you kill us – thank God, we’ll go home at last. We have long had nothing to do with this vile, hypocritical world. We live only in hope for the joy of meeting with the beloved Lord.

UNDERSTAND – YOU ARE POWERLESS AGAINST US BECAUSE GOD IS WITH US.

For our parishioners, I want to add the following.

You know, brothers and sisters in Christ, that we are not separatists, "not accomplices of the aggressor", each of you can hear only one thing from priests at the sermon for many years – how Christ teaches us to live. You know that we are all citizens of our country and have the right to a peaceful life in our homeland, just like the people who are persecuting us. But the truth is that we are being driven not by people, but by those who stand behind them – demons. They are labeling us, lying, slandering, for only one reason – because we are the faithful children of our Mother Church. We were born in it, we will die in it because in it we find our salvation. As a priest and shepherd of Christ, I urge you not to listen to and not to be confused by any lie, either on one or the other side.

On the horizon of the social life of the society, there has long been no black and white colors. Black is on both sides. Politicians have become cynical and pragmatic, public morality has turned into a blob of lies and hypocrisy, the media constantly attack the UOC, accusing it of non-existent sins.

The difference between good and evil lies not in the horizontal plane, but in the vertical plane. The higher from the earth, the more light there is. To get out of the darkness, you should move neither to the right or to the left – you should move upwards, tearing yourself away from the dirt and dust of this world, lying in evil. Only in this way you can be saved.