The betrayal of the church in 1917

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and Society, said that believers should not stop at anything to protect things that are holy to themselves, including murder.

There is a small nuance here. Around the same years (from 1926 to 1929), events similar to those in Russia took place in Mexico. The socialist government that came to power banned divine services, closed churches and began to dispossess the priests a little, to fight opium for the people using Soviet methods. At the same time, I will note. Result? Cristeros movement when shouting "Get up, good Catholics!" tens of thousands of peasants began to gather in huge armies, led by priests, with crosses, with prayers, with tears of religious exaltation. They cried, but they went to the government guns. "Let us die, but we will not give Christ as an offense!" One hundred thousand people were killed, one hundred thousand, socialists were burned alive to prayers, in droves. As a result, the socialists retreated from the church, realizing that it is better not to touch the Mexican Catholic person, that God is really important for the Mexicans.

In Russia … in these same years … Russian Orthodox people … handed over priests to Jewish security officers with songs and dances. With a laugh. Temples were often demolished even before the appearance of requisition commissions. The grateful flock drove nails into the heads of individual, especially outstanding priests, without any security officers. The gloom was terrible. As Rozanov correctly said, “Holy Russia faded in three days,” there were no christeros even close. Because by 1917, Orthodoxy was in a terrible ideological crisis and nobody needed the fuck, including even the most simple and ingenuous people. Yes, and also served as a branch of the left parties, actively participating in subversive work against the Tsar. Who is, as it were, the anointed of God, for a minute. Orthodoxy had no faith, no idea, no elementary conscience by 1917; everyone really hated it. And this is after three years of World War II, usually conducive to thoughts of God. And the year 1917, with all its tortures, atrocities and everything else, in fact, ORTHODOXY SPAS, allowed not to answer the long-overdue question IN ALL ALL, "Guys, who are you and what the heck do you need?" What the clergy wrote immediately after February and the restoration of the Patriarchate was such a height of shamelessness that even the subsequent torture from the Bolsheviks did not wash it away.

At the same time, on the initiative of the chief prosecutor, the royal chair was removed from the conference room of the Synod, which in the eyes of the hierarchs was "a symbol of Caesaropapism in the Russian Church."

It is significant that a member of the Synod, Metropolitan Vladimir, helped the chief prosecutor to take it out. It was decided to transfer the chair to the museum. The next day, the Synod ordered that in all the churches of the Petrograd diocese the reigning house for many years "from now on should not be proclaimed" … In all the churches of the empire, prayers were performed with the proclamation of many years "to the God-protected Russian state and her faithful Provisional Government."

On March 9, the Synod addressed a message "To the faithful children of the Orthodox Russian Church on the current events." The message began like this: “The will of God has been accomplished. Russia has embarked on the path of a new state life. May God bless our great Motherland with happiness and glory on its new path. " Thus, in fact, the Synod recognized the coup d'état as legitimate and officially proclaimed the beginning of a new state life in Russia, and declared the revolutionary events as the accomplished "will of God."(It is interesting to note in this regard: Boris Titlinov, a professor at the Petrograd Theological Academy, believed that this message "blessed free Russia," and General Anton Denikin believed that by doing so the Synod "sanctioned the coup that had taken place."

In connection with the changed form of state power, the Orthodox Church was faced with the need to reflect this event in liturgical texts. In this regard, the Church faced the question: how and what state authority should be remembered in church prayers.

For the first time, the Synod considered this issue on March 7, 1917. By its decision, the Synodal Commission for the Correction of Liturgical Books, chaired by Archbishop Sergius of Finland, instructed to make changes in liturgical rites and prayers in connection with the change in government. But, without waiting for the decision of this commission, the Synod issued a ruling, according to which the entire Russian clergy was instructed "in all cases at services, instead of commemorating the reigning house, to offer prayers" for the God-protected Russian power and her faithful Provisional Government."

That is, the unnecessary fifth leg of the Russian society at a critical moment also behaved like a bunch of inveterate, drunken bastards, betraying the anointed of God. It is not surprising that everyone understood everything about the ROC, and in the grandiose Civil War they preferred to forget about the priests. It is not surprising that, having turned out to be unnecessary traitors, the priests took the Bolshevik torment with almost joy. Torment removed all questions. We saved Orthodoxy from the dishonor into which it plunged itself. It still lives on these torments, poking Soviet martyrs in the face of anyone who tries to find out what all these bearded people in golden women's dresses are doing here. “You are a Bolshevik! People like you killed us! And all the people looked at it in silence! Um … yeah … okay, never mind, let's go."

If you want to look at the real nationwide Christian resistance - see christeros. They stood to death for Christ. Death. Do you want a funny, but instructive story of speculators who first speculated on the Tsar (the pups began to raise the question already from 1905, “Dear Abram, at last I found the time and place to demand the restoration of the patriarchate. High treason? No, I haven’t heard”), and then your own lives - see the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. Chaplin can speculate anything, but by the 20s the ROC in Russia was hated by EVERYONE, and only the Bolshevik arts mixed this hatred.

But we are not Bolsheviks. We are Russians and we, Mr. Chaplin, remember how your church behaved at a critical moment for the nation. And we will not forget this, and we will not forgive this.

Egor Prosvirnin