The creation of a harmonious world is impossible without understanding that any activity, including economic, should be built on a strong moral basis. About this Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (real name – Vladimir Gundyaev) told in an interview with the French edition of Forbes magazine. Excerpts from it are published on the partiarchy website.
The head of the ROC recalled that communism led to the fact that hundreds of thousands of believers were executed for faith, and also criticized the “capitalist gospel”. “Already now we see that Christians of Western countries in their essence of the Evangelical ideals of moderation in the material benefits and sacrificial ministry are all less fit in the perfect picture of the world of consumption,” Patriarch Kirill emphasized.
“The desire for self-enrichment as the highest goal of life, like a smug social selfishness – disappeared by the Christian worldview. And stimulates these aspirations, it seems to me, not economic science, for which the absolutization of certain factors are non-characteristic in nature. Rather, this role Perform financial and economic elites, transnational corporations, “he said.
Patriarch Kirill indicated that the moral basis for Orthodox has always always had a sacred writing and church tradition. “The Russian state managed to largely overcome the consequences of the economic and social collapse of the 1990s, and I believe that it would be impossible without God’s mercy to our people who passed through the times of persecution of faith,” the head of the ROC added. He considered that it was the spiritual revival of the people who laid the foundation for positive phenomena in the 2000s economy.
Earlier in October, Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the end of the capitalism era. “Everyone says that the existing model of capitalism, and this is now the basis of a public device in the overwhelming majority of countries exhausted itself,” he said. The opportunities for the exit “from the tangle are increasingly confusing contradictions” in its framework came to an end, the president added. In his opinion, moderate conservatism should be considered the most reasonable principle of worldview in the upcoming period of reorganization in the world.