When you say Vladimir, it's like you stutter. But when you add Vladimirovich, the subconscious starts to work. He knows the linguistic finesse of Bishop Nikanor and already has one eye on the young priest who is being baptized. The gray-haired bishop took a break for the people to gather, before shooting off into the sky - Putin!
Exactly. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin! And the young pope was baptized at the right time. But Bishop Nicanor of Banat did not stop there, last Sunday in Belgrade, at a gathering called Litija for the salvation of Serbia. The bishop said that Putin is "the emperor of this planet".
And that shook me, the seismograms in me reported demonic movements near the Temple of Saint Sava. I had to delve into the New Testament, which I admit I don't do regularly. That's why it took me a full three seconds to find the place where Jesus calls Satan "the prince of this world." It is not some unknown place, nor is it a holy book from yesterday. There are actually three references that are like a quote from the bishop of Banat - if you didn't know that Jesus was talking about the devil, you would think that Nicanor was talking about Putin.
When the same bishop recently called for arms and cursed lesbians, I was not upset. It has long suited the local pops, they have become bored with the repetition of their genital fixations. But for a bishop to summon the devil himself, and that's where I was a little surprised.
It is not a sinful pedophile abandoned in a village on the border with Romania; Nicanor dines in the court with 25 windows in the front, with a wonderful facade and a handsome balustrade, the pride of the city of Vršac. When he appears in robes at one of his windows, the SPC bishop may look like a ruler to a passer-by from a distance. His dress is like an emperor's, the thigh girdle is of gold embroidery, and the sakos is a remnant of Byzantine glory. Thimble, panagia, and all around Nicanor wonderful icons and pictures of old bishops...
Oh yes, Veljko Bogunović, a naked student from the Dalmatian village of Medveđe, made it to the very top. He was a Russian student and a German post-graduate before the fall of the Wall, and he received the scepter during the time of the blessed patriarch German. When bishop Nikanor summons the devil, I mean, it means that the whole church participates. While bombs dismember the bodies of civilians in Ukrainian villages and mothers and fathers pray to an invisible god to whom the empire it is not of this world, Nicanor calls for the government of the "emperor of this planet". He chooses Putin to be the head of the speech, he speaks where Jesus is silent: "I will not talk much with you anymore, because the prince of this world is coming, and there is nothing in me." (Jn, 14:30)
I know, someone will say, the SPC has grown into a political cult worshiping male strength, blood and weapons since the XNUMXs. In World War II, she served as an assassin. The superiors kissed the feet of quislings and drank red wine with Ljotić's scum that filled the German souls. The main condition of the Christian idea has long been exhausted in the fetish of the nation. I know all the reasons why a man would be silent, because why repeat in vain every thirty years?
But that's exactly why, because of that fatigue that is counted on, it is necessary to repeat how dangerous religious authority is; it needs to be repeated how much they tortured the original teaching, drowned it in ritual, and then swindled society as a false morality based on fear. One should be boring and properly receive the threats of their protégés who light up on Instagram as glasses of the new technological law of the crowd.
It is necessary to sum up all the forms of madness that religious leaders present as normality. The SPC Bishop Nikanor should also be mentioned. He does not go a step further than his colleagues, but he is interesting as a narrative, his naming of impure forces is new, just as the worship of war action and bombers for champions of the SPC is not new.
But well, I wouldn't want to take these modest lines too seriously. We are not in a temple, no one is calling you to modesty, nor is he advocating holy truths. The position of a free man, however, must be against the fanatics who, through a religious ceremony, pour their parades into at least three neighboring countries and threaten Europride walkers today, who knows who tomorrow.
After my country, Montenegro, surrendered itself to the same religious mother, while the president of the Assembly reads the doxology with the patriarch, and the state equates the laws with the canon, perhaps it is the duty of every citizen to look into the holy books.
Only for a person to remember who Bishop Nikanor and others like him are singing to. And whose government is of this world, to which they so zealously worship.
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