Russian Orthodox Church Quotes
In the contemporary world, state is normally secular and not bound by any religious commitments. Its co-operation with the Church is limited to several areas and based on mutual non-interference into each other's affairs. However, the state is aware as a rule that earthly well-being is unthinkable without respect for certain moral norms — the norms which are also essential for the eternal salvation of man
Russian Orthodox Church, Bishops' Statement, The Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, 2000
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In the midst of the Argentine Dirty War where the right wing government was murdering and torturing their political enemies of the left, most of the Catholic Church Priests and other Church Authorities had sided with the government and morally overlooked their atrocities and crimes against humanity. Others were fearful as Bishop Enrique Angelelli had been murdered by the military death squads in 1976. Bishop Hesayne was one of the few members of the Church hierarchy who criticized church officials for their silence.
Pen name: Jack Nipps
Vasilii Ivanovich Belavin. head of the church. Because he was responsible for the Russian Orthodox Church in North America he developed the complementary title of ‘Enlightener Of America’
This quotation is sometimes used to show that Washington thought religion important. Most of the founding fathers thought religion both important and potentially dangerous. They had observed Europe tear itself apart over religious differences. Note that Washington uses the words “religious principles” as opposed to “religion” or “religious prescriptions” or “religious doctrine.” The founders were not hostile to the concept of religion—even Jefferson and Franklin saw potential values in religion and religious institutions. They were hostile, however, to letting any particular sect dominate the religious environment of the nation. Nor did they want any of the religions controlling or operating the civil government. See {625616}.
Of all the Western Colonial Powers, Spain was the worst. They took the most from their possessions and contributed the least. Worst, they killed off almost all the indigenous people.
This is a very important quotation. It is the first American expression of the “wall of separation” concept between church and state.
This is an excellent statement of one of the fundamental principles of many Christian Religious Philosophers.
France, like the other European nations had suffered through the bloodbaths and civil and other wars including the Protestant Reformation, the Holocaust and others. They. like the Untied States chose a separation of church and state—a secular government to combat the inner and intrareligious bloodbaths that have historically killed millions.
The Russian Orthodox Church, alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.
