Bishop of the Hussites: I would have liked that Mr. Vasile Bănescu had an inspired Christian speech of apology, and Mr. Cristian Tudor Popescu a rhetoric worthy of the elementary principles of common sense – Essential

“To be honest to the end, I would have liked Mr. Vasile Bănescu to have had a Christian speech inspired by apology, and Mr. Cristian Tudor Popescu a rhetoric worthy of the basic principles of common sense,” the message says. CTP and Ț ”posted on the Hussite Episcopate website.

His reaction comes after an exchange of comments between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the well-known journalist. It all started with Patriarch Daniel, who on Tuesday, in his sermon before the several hundred believers present in the Patriarchal Cathedral on the feast of Saint Demetrius the New, affirmed that “God is not fooled.”

Speaking of the “miracles of Saint Demetrius”, the Patriarch said that in the fall of 1989, on the Feast of Saint Pious Demetrius the New, the Communist authorities banned the worship of the holy relics, saying that that same day, in the building next door, where the Great Assembly was located. National, an important meeting would be held. “This humiliation of the pious Saint Demetrius the New was rewarded in the sense that in a few months the communist regime fell.“said Patriarch Daniel.

On Wednesday, CTP published the article “Satan in cassock” in which he writes: “To deceive people, the charlatan Daniel does not need mathematics or logic – he gives them directly, like a cry for the cattle that herd them: listen to what you”. I mean, because it banned the pilgrimage to the relics of Saint Demetrius in October 1989, communism fell within a few months. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc – afterwards, therefore, because. In a way, this is what the government will do now in the December elections. “God is not fooled!” Said the fisher of people with the prostovol “.

A virulent reaction from the Patriarchate followed Thursday, which, through the voice of its spokesman Vasile Bănescu, speaks of an “outpouring of suburban attacks”, a “twisting of people disfigured by uncontrollable grimaces of hatred that do not have the slightest bit idea about the real, often bloody history of Christian Romania. “

Vasile Bănescu also speaks here of “the suitably camouflaged, but constantly monstrous hypocrisy of these small and poisonous people who in the year of Romania’s moral crossroads, 1990, publicly demonized and crucified from the journalistic positions of> about the true and clean protesters in the University Square, where communism was lucidly denounced, perversely disguised as democracy.

On Friday, CTP published a new article, also in republica.ro, entitled “People and cattle”, in which it writes: “(…) not all believers in this country believe in the sinister shamelessness of the lie that BOR , the kisser on the back of the Ceausescus, when they were not yet relics, brought down communism with the help of God. If the hypothesis turns out to be wrong, I have nothing more to say. “

Regarding this last article, the bishop of Hu, i, who emphasizes that he did not have “any kind of companionship with this totalitarian, false and aggressive system” that was communism, draws a parallel between the torturer Eugen Ţurcanu, presented in the book by Virgil Ierunca, The Piteşti phenomenon ”and Cristian Tudor Popesc.

“The similarities between the common language of Mr. Cristian Tudor Popescu and the torturer Ţurcanu seemed so obvious to me that I said to myself: Ţurcanu redivivus:” Ţurcanu’s delusional imagination was unleashed especially when it came to students who believed in God and they tried not to deny it ”(Humanitas, 2013, p. 40)”, says the bishop.

The argument against what was written by CTP continues in several paragraphs, in which we can find a slight dissociation of Vasile Bănesc’s statements:

• My “cowboy” read the “Treatise on elegant life” by Honoré de Balzac, from which I learned that “care – this word expresses a whole system – is the sine qua non of elegance” (Editura Paralela 45, 2016 , p. 118). To be honest to the end, I would have liked Mr. Vasile Bănescu to have had an inspired Christian apologetic speech and Mr. Cristian Tudor Popescu a rhetoric worthy of the elementary principles of common sense.

In general, public disputes between the main representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church are rare.

The full argument can be read on the website of the Hussite Diocese.