Our goal – to counter legalization of sin, – ROC Primate
"Today we can see what is happening in the world, when terrible sins are planted by the force of the law, by the force of power, and people who wish to resist this sin simply by expressing their disagreement with sinfulness can be repressed," said the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Patriarch said that from time immemorial Rus has been called holy precisely because for its people "holiness was an absolute moral ideal" not to be destroyed even by the revolutionary events of 1917 and subsequent repressions.
"We believe that after having walked along a difficult path of the 20th century, having touched persecutions and trials, we developed in ourselves some kind of immunity, some insensitivity to diabolical temptations and seductions," the Patriarch said.
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