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War is the accumulated energy of sin and problems unsolved in peacetime: Priest of the Russian Orthodox Church

Wars always have spiritual problems, Archpriest Andrey Tkachev reminded.

   
November 28, 2022, 09:42
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Archpriest Andrey Tkachev. Photo: wikipedia.com

Archpriest Andrey Tkachev. Photo: wikipedia.com

MOSCOW (Realist English). War is the accumulated energy of sin and problems unsolved in peacetime. This was stated by Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church Andrey Tkachev in an interview with the Realist News Agency.

“From the point of view of Scripture, the meaning is that war is the accumulated energy of sin and problems unsolved in peacetime. Peacetime gives birth to war. And if people have not solved a lot of important things in peacetime, they concentrate the energy of evil, which is shed by someone else’s blood”, — said the interlocutor of the Realist News Agency.

According to Father Andrey, “there are wars on earth because we are of flesh and blood”.

“Cain and Abel fought when there was no dispute between them yet. They did not argue for a woman, oil, gas, the state border, currency, gold. They had nothing to dispute. But they ran into a contradiction because one said he was better than the other. Cain wanted to restore earthly justice. The first war, the first bloodshed, is fratricide”, — the archpriest explained.

Referring to Scripture, Father Andrew notes that “wars always have spiritual problems”: “That is, when we live in a populated world, our sins accumulate, peel off and flare up. The less the fight against sin, the greater the likelihood of a future war”.

Earlier, the corresponding member of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation Yuri Matvienko estimated that “from the beginning of the revival of the Russian state after the collapse of the Mongol Empire in the XIV century to the present day, which is about 650 years, Russia has spent more than half of this period of time in wars.” In his opinion, “from the point of view of metaphysics, war has an antimaterialistic, spiritual meaning”. This is a kind of “exam for the nation,” says Matvienko.

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