UOC Chancellor: Epstein files prove our world is on the brink of catastrophe

Metropolitan Antony (Pakanych). Photo: pravlife.info

The UOC Chancellor, Metropolitan Antony (Pakanych) commented for the website pravlife on the discussion of the so-called "Epstein files," noting that society's very reaction to the published materials testifies to a deep spiritual crisis.

According to him, loud exposures are hardly accompanied by clear moral assessment from world leaders and public institutions.

"Today, only the lazy are not discussing the surfaced Epstein files and his distinguished guests, but at the same time, few publicly condemn this abomination. And this is a terrible hotbed of disease, rapidly spreading to the entire world. An outright abyss of sin," emphasized the hierarch. He also drew attention to the silence of those who position themselves as spiritual authorities.

According to Metropolitan Antony, the modern secular era substitutes Christian values with an ideology of permissiveness, where the concept of freedom is separated from responsibility.

"There is no place in it for the God of Christian tradition: He has been replaced by man with his natural, and sometimes unnatural desires and passions," the commentary states. "Society has long been taught tolerance toward sin. Everyone, they say, has the right to self-determination, self-perception."

However, according to the hierarch, it is impossible to predict who will bear responsibility for all this: "such 'freedom' always turns into arbitrariness and crime."

"There is nothing more terrible than sin. And there is nothing more shameful than the blurring of sin, its 'whitewashing,' its apparent safety," he said.

The UOC hierarch pointed out that today tolerant "pastors" distort evangelical meanings, trying to destroy Truth, replacing it with the fashionable agenda of false piety.

"The world today is on the brink. On the brink of self-destruction and madness. Pride and greed, which have become the main measure of life, are to blame for everything. If man does not turn to God, does not turn away from sin, he will cease to exist, as will our entire mad world, inevitably and confidently moving toward collapse," said the UOC Chancellor.

As the UOJ wrote, earlier the UOC Chancellor noted that all the Church’s trials today are purification, not defeat.

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