Everywhere in the region and the wider world, politicians attend the prayers, so wonderful buildings and bridges are opened with the song, which benefits the bare-handed life.
That's how the priest Gojko Perović objected in response to my past article, and although moved by his correct tone, I have to openly ask - so what?
It's nice that local pop is calling on foreign role models, it's a change compared to the years when every evil was blamed on the white world, but I don't know why that ecumenical optimism would oblige me.
I see the region falling apart, Ukraine burning, environmental crimes coming to fruition. Millions are not lucky enough to interpret wisely like me and Gojko Perović, because they are dying of hunger. In everything that I have listed, the main role is played by the political and business leaders, to whom the priests often write off their sins in exchange for money or power.
Father Gojko will guess, so guess you too, I'm not fascinated by that trade, even if it took place under the beam of Ostrog.
Priest Perović does not stop at defending Bishop Nikanor against my wickedness, and says that everywhere in the world the heads of "monotheistic religions" sometimes overstep the mark, in my translation - a faggot.
Again, the frantic need for violence in the name of God, in this case Nicanor's, is justified by some trends in the monotheistic world.
Aside from the history that led to the predominance of monotheism and the bloody trail that the said concept left behind wherever it appeared, let me just mention here, for the sake of the children, Islamic extremists, American white Christian nationalism, or pops willing to light Putin's armored car.
I am surprised that a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, let alone one who is called a servant of Christ, does not see the great evil of mixing divine and worldly signs. I am amazed that the myopia is so short-sighted, so I guess I am expected to quote every Svetosava father who falconed the butchers, so that Father Gojko Perović would finally remember that I do not deal with the church as an institution that baptizes and buries, but as a political force that brightens and clothes .
Struck by the sentence that Nicanor "doesn't go one step further than his colleagues", Father Gojko says that this is not true, so let me explain to him: as long as none of the priests stand up and publicly renounce their hatred, it will be the position of the church, because it comes from the highest place.
I have to admit that I am not "hunting for mistakes", as Perović says, but I know the map of war and post-war guidelines, from Amfilohi to Nicanor, which impose blind loyalty to the Serbian race and blood. It is ethnophyletism, a characteristic of a clan or a cult, certainly a estranged form of falling into the material, which falsely presents itself as the truth of Christ.
By canonizing rulers, deifying the state, glorifying criminals and justifying pogroms with fiddles, many SPC priests served folklore, primitively frolicking in front of the cameras, with insufficient awareness of the ten in which they participate. I have the feeling that all consciousness disappeared when they divided the victims of the latter war into theirs and ours, and drew a map of further effects on that.
That map, alas, coincides with the Quisling maps on which Perović meditates and invokes the truth about the individual, the man, Uncle Draža and the tribe.
Certainly the Second World War was not a black and white comic strip but a historical whirlwind. But let all the demonic partisans and all the more holy Chetniks get together, the historical truth based on reason and documents will survive again. That truth left Pope Đujić to die in America as an anonymous loser, an anti-Semite and a disappointed sponsor of Šešelj, while American bookstores sold the books of the evil commissar Đido.
I understand the loyalty to the church and the discreet way in which Father Gojko saves souls. Apparently he doesn't like Nicanor's promiscuity either, but he communicates things between the lines. It is precisely this constraint that keeps a man powerless to speak freely, even when he has the gift of Gojko Perović, that led to undemocratic methods, unitarism, idolatry, cover-up and dogmatization within the church. It's dark. But it's not my problem. My problem is that two years after the Orthodox revolt, a channel was opened for similar practices to be tried in an already rotten political system.
The Church pledged authority and helped the compromised political caste to manifest itself. It was what it was. But the price is too high, not because the president of the parliament is going to Savina, but under the official coat of arms of the Assembly it says that she attended evening prayer and doxology with the Pentateuch.
Father Gojko teaches me not to be a voice from the jungle, but to listen to the church radio, and I ask him, like a five-loaf, what does Svetigora do for me besides such an assembly service.
Actually, I don't ask anything, I just greet the interlocutor, with the regret that we don't understand each other. Let it be a consolation, that at least no one can take that right away from us.
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