Timothy Birdnow

Yeah; Zelensky is really the guy defending democracy!

Ukraine Moves to Ban Orthodox Church

Yes, Zelensky is seeking to dissolve the largest Christian denomination in the country out of alleged ties to Moscow. He has gone to the courts to formally liquidate the entire faith.

In August 2024 Zelensky got a law passed that ordered individual parishes to sever any and all ties with Moscow and the Patriarch there, and non-compliance could lead as far as arrest and asset forfeiture. Now he's coming for the whole church.

A whopping 52% of all Ukrainians are members of the UOC. This is an act of a tyrant.

Accoridng to a report by RT last month, the country’s State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience declared Ukraine’s largest Christian denomination an entity linked to Russia. While I would take RT with a huge grain of salt it seems fairly obvious this was the case as the law now reflects this belief about the UOC.

Viktor Yelensky, former member of the Ukrainian parliament and religious adviser to President Zelensky said the government filed a series of lawsuits against the church, which filed counter suits against the government. So now the government is simply dissolving the church.

Back in July Zelensky stripped away the citizenship of the Orthodox Metropolitan Onufriy(Orest Volodymyrovych) for his alleged ties to Moscow and supposed Russian dual citizenship.

Article 35 of the Ukrainian constitution specifically acknowleges freedom of religion:

"Everyone shall have the right to freedom of personal philosophy and religion."

This isn't as broad perhaps as the right acknowleded in the U.S. Constitution, particularly with the weasel words about "personal philosophy" which I might add was what the Soviet constitution had in it too, but it still strongly suggests government has no right to tamper with a whole church. Unless they have smoking gun proof of a conspiracy between the Orthodox Church and Putin they have no right to take such action.

But many things get forgotten in wartime and dictators often abuse their power in the name of the "national emergency". Zelensky has abused his power repeatedly, suspending elections, closing media outlets and arresting journalists, etc.

But they have an alternative! The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, founded by former president Petro Poroshenko, is the new church the Zelensky regime is favoring. Much like Henry VIII the government just founded it's own church and is now taking steps to force everyone into it.

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