En lång rad ortodoxa teologer och lärda har i en gemensam deklaration fördömt Killer-Kirillens idéer om "Russkij Mir" som kätteri och irrlära. Patriärkesvinet må ha sina runkfantasier om Rysslands styrka och inflytande, men det handlar om i grunden antikristna idéer som han helt fräckt ger en religiös förklädnad. Det är "etnisk-religiös nationalism på steroider" för att långa Brandon Gallaher, teolog från University of Exeter.
Ecumenism as victim of war: Scholars condemn position of Moscow patriarch
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/03/ecumenism-as-victim-of-war-scholars-condemn-position-of-moscow-patriarch
https://publicorthodoxy.org/2022/03/13/a-declaration-on-the-russian-world-russkii-mir-teaching/?fbclid=IwAR1m8MRZ7XX_JCFDLxnPID1_HLlKbF2_hmQ1JmFK 3lcTQcqbbLw5jPr0T78
Patriarch Kirill, the “Russian World” Myth, and Genocide
https://publicorthodoxy.org/2022/03/15/patriarch-kirill-russian-world-genocide/
Ecumenism as victim of war: Scholars condemn position of Moscow patriarch
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/03/ecumenism-as-victim-of-war-scholars-condemn-position-of-moscow-patriarch
For the past 20 years, the declaration said, Putin and Kirill have promoted the idea of “a transnational Russian sphere or civilization, called Holy Russia or Holy Rus’, which includes Russia, Ukraine and Belarus — and sometimes Moldova and Kazakhstan — as well as ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people throughout the world.”A Declaration on the “Russian World” (Russkii mir) Teaching
The teaching “holds that this ‘Russian world’ has a common political center (Moscow), a common spiritual center (Kyiv as the ‘mother of all Rus”), a common language (Russian), a common church (the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate), and a common patriarch (the patriarch of Moscow), who works in ‘symphony’ with a common president/national leader (Putin) to govern this Russian world, as well as upholding a common distinctive spirituality, morality and culture,” the declaration said.
Kirill’s insistence that the war in Ukraine is simply a matter of Russia defending itself from the threat of the sinful “West” and its “gay pride parades” is his application of the “Russian world” view.
“We firmly reject all forms of government that deify the state — theocracy — and absorb the church, depriving the church of its freedom to stand prophetically against all injustice,” the declaration said. “We also rebuke all those who affirm ‘caesaropapism,’ replacing their ultimate obedience to the crucified and resurrected Lord with that of any leader vested with ruling powers and claiming to be God’s anointed, whether known by the title of ‘Caesar,’ ‘Emperor,’ ‘Tsar’ or ‘President.”
https://publicorthodoxy.org/2022/03/13/a-declaration-on-the-russian-world-russkii-mir-teaching/?fbclid=IwAR1m8MRZ7XX_JCFDLxnPID1_HLlKbF2_hmQ1JmFK 3lcTQcqbbLw5jPr0T78
Patriarch Kirill, the “Russian World” Myth, and Genocide
https://publicorthodoxy.org/2022/03/15/patriarch-kirill-russian-world-genocide/

Att det handlar om en fundamentalistisk sekt:
