Religião dita e feita

 Segue abaixo o texto da Declaração sobre o "Mundo Russo" (Russkii mir), publicada em1/4/2022, por um grupo de líderes e pensadores cristãos ortodoxos, em contraposição ao uso de um argumento teológico-político de justificação do ataque à Ucrânia e potencialmente a outras nações, sob a justificativa de reconstrução de um mundo etnico-politicamente russo. No momento desta postagem, já havia 1319 assinaturas de apoio à Declaração. A Declaração pode ser encontrada neste link . “For the peace of the whole world, for the stability of the holy churches of God, and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.” (Divine Liturgy)   The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, is a historic threat to a people of Orthodox Christian tradition. More troubling still for Orthodox believers, the senior hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has refused to acknowledge this invasion, issuing instead vague statements about the necessity for peace in light of “events” and “hostilitie

Reproduzo a seguir uma declaração assinada por 83 intelectuais de vários países, inclusive eu, Joanildo Burity, em solidariedade aos cristãos ortodoxos ucranianos. O link original é https://religioninpraxis.com/a-statement-of-solidarity-with-the-orthodox-declaration-on-the-russian-world-russkii-mir-teaching-and-against-christian-nationalism-and-new-totalitarianism.   Following the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022, Orthodox voices have thoroughly rebutted the use of the “Russian World” (russkii mir) teaching, which claims that there is an organically unified transnational orthodox Christian Russian civilization that includes the territories and people of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and sometimes other nations, to justify the current war. This statement seeks a) to facilitate support from among non-Orthodox Christian scholars for the rejection of the “russkii mir” teaching; b) to reject unholy alliances between Christian identity and political power which have