Dear
in Christ Faithful Children of the Orthodox Church, Saint Savaites, Honorable
Parents, Beautiful Youths and Children of Serbia,
We
live in unfortunate times in which the State declares as deviant the upholding
of the unblemished purity of Orthodoxy and the preservation of the
centuries-old traditions of the Serbian Christ-named people. Preserving Saint Sava’s ideals and all things
sacred, you have experienced being treated like felons by the state. Your children took part in the youth camp
under the patronage of our Church, where they humbly prayed to God and glorified
the podvig of our holy, heroic
forefathers, with faith in God, for the King and Fatherland. At our St. Lazar Camp, the usual physical,
educational and fun activities were conducted that are characteristic of such
youth camps throughout the world, and all took place beneath the Serbian state
flag which flew proudly over it all.
The
participants did some shooting, not from air rifles, for which the state
demands a special permit to possess, but from plastic battery-run guns which
let off plastic bbs that can be bought without any special permit. Shooting at paper targets is just a sport
(youth) discipline among many others; yet
for this have various anti-Christian and anti-Serbian media and
non-governmental organizations, along with the state apparatus, pounced on you,
incited by the ecumenist church. All of
us have been swept up in this development of affairs. We wonder: what is going on here? Are we really deviants, while everyone else
around us is normal? Let us seek the
answer to this question from the holy fathers.
Here is what they say:
“The
time will come when a certain sickness will spread among men. When they see someone who does not suffer
from this illness, they will rise against him, saying, ‘You are the sickest,
because you are not like us.’ Here it
would also not be out of place to mention that this individual will have to be
very careful of thoughts of false humility which will be set before him by the
demons and people who are the weapons of the demons. Usually in such cases,
fleshly wisdom remonstrates with him, ‘Are only you right, while everyone else,
or at least the majority, are in the wrong?’
Such remonstrations are meaningless!
For it was always a few, only a very few, who travel the narrow way, and
in the last days of the world, at the end, the road will be left extremely lonely.” (St. Ignatius Brianchioninov).
What
does this mean?
After
five decades of tyranny under the red pentagram, we were convinced that the
God-fighting (and for the true Serbian identity, fatal) communism had
fallen. The new post-communist authorities
boasted that Serbia would become a democracy, which would mean that there would
be freedom of thought, conscience and confession. It was clear right away,
however, that the new government was never freed from the ideology and
influence of god-fighting communism and bloody proletariat revolution, commonly
called NOB (Narodnooslobodilachka Borba – The Nation-Freeing War). The period of communism, an ideology no less
criminal than Nazism, has never been evaluated officially and identified
correctly as one of the darkest periods in the history of the Serbian
people. Behind the mask of anti-fascism,
communists continue to present themselves in a positive light as some sort of
liberators. To this very day, Serbia on
the highest, most official level celebrates the 9th of May as a day
of liberation. What kind of liberation is that, which was nothing more than the
exchange of one five-year criminal totalitarian system for another, ten times
longer lasting and more devastating?
The
changes for which we fought -embodied by the fall of the communist regime, the
return of the Serbian tri-color with the Nemanjić dynasty’s
white two-headed eagle, the image of the precious Cross and the national anthem
“God of Justice” that embodied freedom of thought, conscience and confession -turned
out to be in appearances only. The
ominous shadow of communism remained over Serbia, still scorning God and St.
Sava.
At
one time, the official Orthodox church closely cooperated with Tito, who
according to the will of the God- fighters set up “eligible” bishops and
patriarchs. Agents in rassas and mitres are
carrying on a close partnership with the new, post-communist democratic
government, and that under the close supervision of the global ruling
elite. Western democracy, in fact, is
nothing other than the other side of the same coin of communism, for both one
and the other political ideology have the same task: to de-Christianize and strip of identity
every traditional, nation-building, and believing people. They demand that every state, every nation,
every religion by hook or by crook must become globalistic, multi-cultural and
ecumenist. Only this kind of mankind,
chained in the fetters of globalization, can be ready for entry into a new
chapter of mankind’s history known as “The New World Order.” The new age in which the secular, godless
humanism, should reign pushes for an ever greater tolerance of every kind of
depravity, unnatural perversion, and blatant evil. By acquiringsome kind of false peace, the
world is being prepared for great, apocalyptic changes.
Religiously
speaking, every subject who accepts modern Western values is obliged to plant a
new syncretistic conscience into his community, giving up the ‘exclusive’
conviction that only his religion is correct, while all others are in
error: this is the definition of the
pan-heresy of ecumenism! The basic goal
of the ecumenist heresy is syncretism, that is, the fusion of all heresies and
religions, not in the sense of creating one religion with one group ritual, but
rather, the cultivation of tolerance and belief that all religions lead to the
same God. All religions are the same to
the globalistic “god,” from Christianity to witchcraft; this is the global, universal religion of the
new age, the religion which will accept Antichrist himself as its leader. The Orthodox teaching completely opposes such
assertions: we believe that the only saving Church is, was, and will always be
the same Orthodox Church, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, i.e,
the Church that confesses the unchanged faith of the Apostles and Fathers. All other “churches,” religions, sects and
cults are false teachings which cannot bring man to God. Equating the Orthodox Church and Her
teachings, the only Divinely-revealed Truth, with various heretics, false
teachers and even open ritualists of demonic cults, and asserting that they all
lead to the same God, is blasphemy.
While
so believing, the Orthodox Christian neither threatens nor hates anyone. On the
contrary, he mourns for all who are in error and far from God, praying that
they will be enlightened, to know the same God and unite to the Holy Orthodox
Church, the only treasury of salvation.
The
anti-ecumenist stance of the True Orthodox Christians is not religious intolerance. Orthodox Christians can cooperate with the
heterodox on the state and secular level when the occasion demands. They can cultivate personal friendships with
them. They cannot, however, in addition
to the above, in any way give up the exclusivity of Divinely-granted Truth
which only the Holy Orthodox Church preserves.
The
constitution of the Republic of Serbia guarantees every man freedom of thought,
conscience and confession, even when one does not accept the widely-accepted mediocre
values, which implies that he has the right to disagree with New Age
ideals. Therefore:
It is not
and cannot be a crime for someone in Serbia to be an Orthodox Christian who
does not wish to take part in the ecumenist treason of Orthodoxy. The labeling of such a
person as extremist, fundamentalist, sectarian or apostate on the part of an individual
or group can well be defined as religious discrimination. Meanwhile, if the
state (the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Social Services) openly stands
behind such religious discrimination, then one can already begin to perceive
the totalitarianism inherent in the God-fighting communist regimes.
It is not
and cannot be a crime for someone in Serbia to be a Serbian patriot who rears
his children according to his principles.
Publicly,
the media condemnation of such a free man, his family, and children because of
their convictions as “deviants” or “extremists” (“Orthodox jihadists”) can also
be characterized as hate speech. If the
state (The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Social Services) stands behind such
hate speech, then this can be characterized as a totalitarian dictatorship’s attack in the
sphere of its citizens’ spiritual life, the imposing of an official ideology
(values, education, and morals) of a totalitarian society in which is forbidden
any sort of human activity (for example, intellectual or political) if the
state itself has not planned or allowed it.
Some
accuse our Church of mixing too much in politics. Is it not clear to every reasonable man that
it is difficult to separate church matters and politics? For politics claim to
be all-encompassing, that is, the secular authorities would take into their own
hands decisions about spiritual life.
Thus, the Church cannot be entirely disinterested in the sphere of
politics. When the antichrist rules the
earth, he will naturally be a political figure, which means that the Church
will have to face political persecution.
In order to weaken the opposition of the Church, the antichrist’s
forerunners use the idea that the Church should be above politics. They hide their war on God behind a political
cloak: they declare the confessors of
Orthodoxy as deviants. The history of communist states is full of such
examples. Certainly, the Church should
not normally be involved in politics; but when politics touch on matters of
spiritual life - one of which, and that especially important, the upbringing of
children – then the Church cannot close Her eyes. It is for this very reason that the
opposition of communism and New Age democratic globalism is a spiritual, not only
a political, matter.
In what way are you guilty, for what reason has the state
fallen upon you like bad citizens, calling you to the police station for
interrogation, and then to Social Services to conversations with social workers
who behave towards you as towards irresponsable parents, then call the schools
to direct their attention to your children and inquire about them, marking them
out as problematic children to whom especial attention should be paid? As the crown of this psychological torture
for you and your children, they come to your homes and have discussions with
your children! They accuse you of being
irresponsable parents, that you are the members of a dangerous sect in which
you are forcing your children (and there have already been cases in which they
said this in front of the children themselves!). You are going through a humiliating procedure
of cross-interrogation, for they
supposedly worry that your own children’s rights have perhaps been threatened! These false do-gooders of your children tell
you that before the age of 18 you should not religiously influence your
children but leave them free to decide. This
is terrible, but it must be said: according to these people, this is your main
fault, in that you are good, consciensious parents who correctly rear their
children! What worries them
the most is precisely this upbringing of your children. They fear the healthy upbringing and
education of Serbian children and youth, in the spirit of Svetosavlje and patriotism.
They would like to teach your children the official ideology of the new
totalitarian society, the chief goal that the new secular, de-Christianized
schooling has been set to accomplish.
They would like the media, which propagates all the more deviant
behavior and false values, to teach them by promoting various demonic creatures
which they present as positive characters.
Then of course there are the clips, ads, broadcasts, reality shows, and
movies which promote fornication, primitivism, shamelessness, homosexual
perversion, and, often, even underage sexuality.
Your
children, in their opinion, should not be guided by you, in harmony with St.
Sava’s values and principles by which you live, but instead should be given
over to a corrupt society which will educate them in sync with the values and
principles of the perverse anti-Christian globalist elite. It is clear that one of the global ruling
elite’s main goals is to destroy the traditional family upbringing of children,
along with the traditional family itself.
Children, as they envision it, should belong to society, not their
parents. They create a new kind of relationship between parent and child. For them, the traditional family is something
dangerous, for it is an area which a totalitarian society cannot control. Ideas
such as “sin,” for example, should no longer be imposed on families, schools,
or churches.
It
must be added that this all occurs in a state which legalized such horrors as
abortion, and thus legally kills children daily, ranking among the top for
murdered children in Europe and the world!
What could be worse than such a crime?
What
is more, the toleration of such aggressive public promotions of depravity and
sick perversions is becoming the law above all laws. These are all those false values which we
have already mentioned that they are trying to force on our people. Normal, healthy-minded people are all the
more often characterized as “zealots,” “extremists,” “fundamentalists,”
“psychopaths,” “Orthodox jihadists,” “Orthodox fascists,” etc. This phenomenon already shows that all those
who do not wish to bow their heads before the openly anti-Christian
totalitarian ideology will become targets of interrogation and persecution.
But
fear not; for you are neither the first nor the last among Christians who have
suffered without cause for the sake of their faith and convictions. Precious are the heavenly wreaths of
confession of the faith and heroic defense of the fatherland given for every
bearing of injustice and humiliation.
You are those jubilant, fearless standard-bearers of whom Fr. Justin
Popovic of blessed memory spoke, who bravely and firmly brandish St. Sava’s
standard, despite whatever suffering you might bear for the sake of his ideals
and all things. As Fr. Justin said,
“Even if many priests and bishops betray Svetosavlje, stay on St. Sava’s
path. Fear not, but rather bravely hold
up St. Sava’s standard to the end and believe unwaveringly. St. Sava’s flag
will always find a fearless standard-bearer among the Serbian nation, perhaps
in a simple peasant or zealous monk.
Rejoice that this is so! For the
most important thing is that St. Sava
will not abandon us. If he abandons
us, God will abandon us, heaven and earth, and all that is holy and honorable
in our history from its beginning to today.”
The
official church and state of today have become fatal weapons in the hands of
the globalist ruling elite, a powerful
means of changing value systems whose goal is to make our Christ-named people
into an obedient mass of secularized citizens of the apocalyptic new world
order. Our Orthodox faith and Fatherland
seek that we all stand fearlessly in defense of Svetosavlje which today is under attack and nearly devastated, for Svetosavlje is built on the fighting,
Cross-and-Resurrection ideals of preservation of the Orthodox faith and
national identity at the cost of every sacrifice which was given to us as an
eternal covenant by our holy forefathers with St. Sava and the Holy Martyr
Prince Lazar at their head. Through
their various sufferings and sorrows, Christians always found joy and comfort
in the words, “For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation
also aboundeth by Christ.” (2 Cor.
1:5) You are followers of Christ,
followers of the Victor, and that not just any Victor, but the Victor of all
time. This truth inspired generations of
our forefathers to take on willingly every sacrifice, even to the sacrifice of
their very lives for the sake of salvation, preservation of the faith and
defense of the Orthodox state.
Regardless
of how weak we may be or of how much power those who persecute us may possess,
we may not at any moment forget St. Sava’s ideals and St. Lazar’s Kosovo oath,
and that we are the children of the Final Victor, opponents of the final loser
and his servants for whom an everlasting flame has been prepared (Mat.
25:41). For in the battle for the
Heavenly Kingdom, even a lost battle becomes a victory when we fight with the
Lord on our side. The fight for the
faith and for the preservation of national identity - for whose sake we choose the
narrow path and deprivation, undergoing persecution - all has meaning, for in
the Holy Scriptures we read, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that
your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Cor 15:58)
Your
humble well-wisher and intercessor in prayer before the Lord,
Bishop
Akakije of Uteshiteljevo
August
13/26, 2014
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