“True” Russian Orthodox Church Believes World Will End in May 2008
original article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/15/doomsday.cult/index.html
The cult, which calls itself the “true Russian Orthodox Church,” believes the end of the world will come in May 2008.
Prosecutors announced Thursday they are opening criminal proceedings
against the cult’s leader, Father Pyotr Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov, 43, is
“under the supervision of investigators,” Olig Troshin, a Penza
prosecutor, told Itar-Tass. A law enforcement source in Penza told the Russian news agency Interfax that Kuznetsov “is being examined by psychiatrists.”Four children are among 29 cult members holed up in a ravine in Russia’s Penza region, where they apparently dug a cave.
“It is obviously some kind of insanity,” Mitropolitan Kirill, a
high-ranking Russian Orthodox Church official, told Russian television.
“It is perhaps even a medical case. A very dangerous phenomena is
happening in Russia’s religious life.“
What is interesting about this case is that there is an Eastern Orthodox religious aspect to this cult that is virtually unprecedented in the modern world. What I think this points to is the general breakdown of religious education in Russia in the modern era, which mirrors the over-zealous secularism that has run rampant in the West for some decades now since the 1960’s.
Religion and faith give people a moral base to make their decisions, as well as give people a belief in something more than themselves. Once this faith is lost, what is to replace it except consumerism, free markets, politics, and charismatic cult leaders. We have to remember that religion is not all fundamentalism and right wing nonsense, at its root, it is meant to bring people together united to serve a higher power, whatever that may be.
Who knows… maybe they will prove us all wrong and the world will end during my birthday month next year, May 2008.
also discussed at PREDICTO
and KTRACY.com
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