It was not the CTP that won over the believers, but Patriarch Daniel himself

When he spoke that phrase he intended to convey clearly, unequivocally and unequivocally, that the 1989 Revolution was God’s punishment for the Communists who, in 1989, transferred the pilgrimage site to Saint Dumitru, the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, to a few hundred meters away. He made a (new) gesture of contempt for those he shepherded on the way to God.

That phrase, which includes a relativization as a world, should in itself be an affront to any somewhat literate man. I could write a mini-treatise on the history of the horrors of communism in Romania, which, in every word, would contradict the stupidity of the patriarch Daniel. That causal link between the passage to the pilgrimage in October 1989 and the events less than two months later simply does not exist, so it is obvious that it does not make sense to do so.

But I would dwell on a vital nuance that, in an attempt to indoctrinate today’s “followers”, Patriarch Daniel dishonors simply by ignoring it: the orthodox resistance in communist political prisons. The persecution of Romanian believers during the communist years was a horror, and its details should be taught in school, so that no one has the courage to at least think like that again.

I shudder when I remember what I read about Aiud or Pitesti, what those people suffered only because of the faith that they confessed despite the prohibitions of the time. But the Patriarch does not speak of that, no. Paradoxically, you would think, because this piece of history would be a great cue ball for today’s BOR.

And no, the Patriarch does not overlook this edifying period of the passions of Romanian believers under communism, not because he had no instincts or at least specialists in public relations and communication. It does not because that period must be forever forgotten by today’s clergy leaders. Any reference to him would automatically recall the abject collaborationism of an important part of the priesthood, especially its highest representatives. With all its nuances and declines, from the general level to the personal. Like Daniel Ciobotea himself …

I can (very hardly, I admit it!) Admit that the Patriarch forgot the daily life of civilians in communism, I can admit that he forgot the general cold and hunger that afflicted Romanians especially in the last ten years of the regime, but I can’t believe they forgot about Pitesti, Aiud or Canal, either because some of the most visible political prisoners of the time were the people of the Church.

Here’s the big mess that came out of the mouth under the miter. Because it is not a simple relativization, but a great lie perversely placed under the belt of the common believer, from the top of the position of Patriarch of the BOR.

Equally important is the context in which the Patriarch decides to lie to his “subjects.”

In the midst of the pandemic, borscht angered by the measures (it was to write “clumsiness”) of the Executive aimed at combating the spread of the deadly virus and equally aware of the step that his words have among Orthodox believers, Patriarch Daniel not only does not shoot Al same car with the Government, not only does it not carry forward the normal message of the times and the call for caution, in any way. Although the help of the BOR at this time would be unexpected for the Romanian health system on the verge of collapse, the Patriarch does not help, although he clearly understands who he is and what power his words have, but he does the exact opposite: he sows in believers, to Through this veiled threat revolution, “the idea that you are in a divergent position.

That is, two logical steps later, it feeds denialism, because if the bad government does not leave us to the relics because it is a pandemic, and the patriarch threatens it for it, it is possible, even probable, that the virus is not so lethal, yes. It’s really plausible that it doesn’t exist at all, but that it’s just an invention of the powerful of the day, right?

Not at all. But that does not stop Patriarch Daniel, who had some weak correct positions at the beginning of the pandemic, so I would say that he is aware of the risks, from doing now exactly what he did in his speech in front of San Dumitru.

Under these conditions, who makes faithful cattle? An (important) journalist who writes, indignant, an opinion about a public speech of an important man, that is, about a fact, or himself who throws such a message shame to those who follow him?