A progressive man today in Montenegro of any nation, whether he is an atheist or a religious person, should support the defense of the church at this moment in the face of a tyranny that brings chaos, and then take part in further processes, including church ones, said DEMOS president Miodrag Lekić at panel "Religion, philosophy and science in the 21st century".
"The church seems much more European to me, as if it is now in the process of integration with the European Union, rather than politicians who swear by European standards, and who play pranks in a primitive, medieval way," said Lekić and added that it is necessary to open an honest dialogue in society about the relationship between church and state.
The rector of the Cetinje seminary, Gojko Perović, said that nationalism cannot be the basis of the church's identity, and that it should be seriously discussed within the church.
"Serbian Orthodox Church is not the most appropriate name for an Orthodox Church, just as it is neither Russian nor Bulgarian. But it is not up to the politicians to decide how to overcome those national names and how we will arrive at the name and constitution of the church that will not burden us nationally. That is the basic problem. "Someone set out to solve it, but he doesn't know anything about politics, let alone the church," Perović said.
Perović explained that during the conversation with the representatives of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, the leaders of the authorities in Montenegro wanted to talk about the arrangement of the church, which is unconstitutional and which politicians should not deal with.
"There was a conversation and it was agreed that the public would not be informed, because we had nothing to brag about, neither the representatives of the government nor the representatives of the church. The meeting was like a collision of worlds. The representatives of the church went to talk about the law, and the leaders of the government wanted to talk about the arrangement of the church in the country, which is unconstitutional and which politicians should not deal with. We received an indecent offer," said Perović.
He explained that it was only at the end of the meeting that the suspension of the law was offered, and that this offer was actually buying time before the elections, so that the issue would not be resolved in a timely manner, but so that we could enter the pre-election campaign with it.
"We, to the extent that we are reasonable citizens, will not allow this pleasure to the authorities," said Perović.
Lekić also said that just opening the topic within the church about the abolition of the national identity of the church is so precious and superior compared to politicians who irrelevantly interfere in these topics.
"We know those profiles, we know their smugglers' biography who want to proclaim a new church at the congress of a formally left-wing party, but they don't know and change it in fifteen days, first to Montenegrin, then to Orthodox," Lekić said.
Milan Popović, a professor at the University of Montenegro, said that it was not just the new corona virus that attacked us, but the hybrid that hit Montenegro.
"We had a hybrid of this natural pathogen, COVID-19, and one human pathogen, DPS 89. That hybrid has continued to this day," said Popović.
He assessed that the church passed the test of commitment to humanism and man much better than scientists in Montenegro, especially the part of scientists who sit in the National Coordination Body.
"The moment when the Prime Minister said that the gatherings are a health hazard, and the gathering on the occasion of Independence Day is not a health hazard, those experts and those representatives of science were silent," said Popović.
In this way, everyone together mocked the Constitution and the principle of discrimination, Popović concluded.
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