Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non- enslaved civilization’ Catholic World News - February 26, 2015 Describing much of Europe as “Babylon,” the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society said that “Russia is the only center of non-[en]slaved civilization,” according to the Interfax news agency.
“Our patriotism is not chauvinism,” said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin; rather, it consists in “understanding the importance of the unique Christian mission which, I believe, our people live for.”
Chaplin traced the decline of Europe from “Genoa and Venice money-lenders” to the Enlightenment, “then bourgeois structure of the society and state. Then revolution. Finally, we've got what we see in the West … At the best, it's Rome of the late period of decline.”
Western European nations, he added, “will lose their physical existence: they will just die out.”
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