Political expert: Religious conflict is the hardest to extinguish
Konstantin Bondarenko. Photo: file.liga.net
Political expert Konstantin Bondarenko believes that the religious conflict that is escalating in Ukraine is a very dangerous phenomenon that will be difficult to put out.
In an interview with Aleksandr Shelest, Bondarenko said that at the moment in Ukraine in the church issue "someone is taking the side of the government and the OCU serving it, someone is taking the side of the persecuted UOC".
"As far as the authorities are concerned, they are playing with a very complicated phenomenon because the religious conflict is the most difficult to extinguish. If only a religious conflict breaks out, it is very difficult to find rational ways to stop it," he stressed.
Bondarenko stressed that "the most brutal wars are religious and sectarian ones. And God forbid it should come to the situation when we have an argument between representatives of different currents in Orthodoxy.
"Because it will be quite difficult to stop this and to achieve some kind of inter-faith peace. We will get our own Sunnis and Shiites, who will clarify these relations, perhaps, for decades and centuries," says the political scientist.
As earlier reported, political analyst Dmytro Korneychuk said that it seemed that the processes of destroying the UOC had been sanctioned by the Kremlin.
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