CWN - 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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