The local authorities' donation of one million euros for the construction of the Serbian Orthodox Church temple in Budva, as well as the political entanglements it has triggered, show how rare and even unlikely a principled opinion on matters is in Montenegro. It always comes down to one calculation or another, and that's it. Job done....
Even the party that is accused of alleged “hostility” towards the Serbian Orthodox Church is ready to support such a donation. Does this mean that the DPS has given up on its secularism and returned to “factory settings”? Like from the time of the construction of the temple in Podgorica, when a significant part of the income from the so-called “state smuggling” was directed towards the construction of this magnificent church. These are the foundations.
Time Vinaver's evil wizards, again.
Every local government in Montenegro loses its mind when it comes to giving money to religious communities. There is no critical questioning, no social logic, it is for the church - and all the awkward questions are immediately suspended - and the money flows towards religious organizations.
Money for culture or education must be boxed out on a hundred woes, there is never a consensus like when it comes to the turn of the Almighty and his outposts on earth. A touching agreement. Spirituality above all. God first created his beard, as the often quoted pseudo-proverb goes.
The church has become such an implicit value in today's Montenegro that you can encounter intellectual anticlerical discourse in public less and less. That is not desirable. People have started to avoid mentioning the topic, avoiding saying or thinking anything "non-standard". Like once with the Party. That kind of exemption from critical consideration, whoever it is, is dangerous for a society.
Remember the amounts that are, out of breath, earmarked for religious schools? Vertigo.
Churches and money, truth be told, isn't that the so-called eternal question? Legendary American comedian George Carlin has a great observation - Ok. God is omnipotent, knows everything, sees everything, can do everything, but, it seems, he can't do anything with money. Because, he constantly needs your money. It never stops - more and more money... Definitely, despite all his powers, maybe he can really do everything, but he can't do anything with money...
And you would expect that moment to have little effect on the enthusiasm of the followers, but, quite the opposite happens... God always finds a way to need you.
Maybe someone thinks that constantly giving money to the church/churches is proof that God exists? Because, the point is clear: the spirit of transaction invokes the spirit of reality, aren't they inseparable. Or is it the opposite?
But, from Karlin's America to the current Budva, things work the same way. As soon as you introduce money into divine affairs and days, chaos ensues. Or - a revelation.
All of this is just part of the trouble with the “left” in today's Montenegro. A smart person would probably laugh at this “left in today's Montenegro”, but, at least conditionally speaking.
DPS presents itself as a leftist party. That is already a fundamental problem with the leftist idea. The party that introduced unscrupulous capitalism of naked greed and nepotism to Montenegro, when it finished that job, settled on the left side of the political spectrum? That's how it looks in Montenegro.
By the way, it's interesting, if nothing else - it was also the party that ruled Montenegro in the 1990s, legitimized by great-state ambitions. Milosevic Serbia, to present itself today as a reliable defender, the last defense of Montenegro. How can one not believe them? And when you believe that, both of them, then they can throw all sorts of things at you.
To the founder of Scientology LR Habardu is credited with the legendary statement - if you want money, start a religion. (Just so you know) Tramp doesn't hear this.)
And no matter how much we may be disgusted by this type of logic, it seems to work, that is, it is completely correct, and not only in the America that Hubbard is talking about, but also in current Montenegro.
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