Those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are committing a sin they will have to repent for the rest of their lives. That’s according to the Russian Orthodox Church, whose spokesman said rejecting a jab is selfish.
Speaking to TV channel Russia 24, the head of the Russia Orthodox Church’s Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, explained that his parishioners regularly repent to him for not being vaccinated. They feel guilty because they passed the virus on to someone else who eventually died, he claimed.
“They come and say, ‘How am I supposed to live with this now?’ And it’s hard for even me to say how to live with it,” he explained. “All your life, you have to make up for the sin you committed.”
“The sin is thinking about yourself instead of thinking about other people,” the metropolitan said. “We are responsible – each of us – not only for ourselves and not only for our loved ones, but also for all those who come into contact with us.”
In recent months, the Church has been more vocal about its support for the government’s vaccination program. Metropolitan Hilarion has regularly spoken on TV about the need to follow the rules and take precautions to avoid infection. In June, the cleric revealed his “positive attitude” towards the government initiative to impose compulsory vaccination on those working in the service sector.
“Of course, it is desirable to observe the principle of voluntariness in relation to vaccinations – the principle that was stated from the very beginning,” he explained. “But there is also the principle of people’s responsibility for the lives of other people.”
Russia is currently in the midst of a new wave of Covid-19. On Monday, the authorities announced that there had been 24,353 new cases – a considerable rise from the 9,145 recorded on June 5, just one month ago. The increase in infections is being put down to the emergence of the Delta variant within the country, leading to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin imposing restrictions on cafes, bars, and restaurants in the capital.
Yes mr. priests, everyone must vaccinate and become like this guy here:
There you go! And here is the end of the Orthodox church as well. We knew that this last church would have to fall too someday and this is the day of the beginning of the end. It was good while it lasted but now you can officially say Orthodoxy has signed a contract with the devil as well. We knew this day would come, when Satan will come, he will have total power and having a church remaining true to Jesus well then that’s not full power, so everyone must fall to sin, including the original church of Christ, Orthodoxy… so what this could be interpreted as, is yet another sign of the final times which are fast approaching.
You are on your own, no church will stand up for you, these people have fallen like the pharisees, only God will look up for you now. Stand up and true to your self and God and do NOT rage at God for the actions of men. Stand true and someday we will rebuilt it all in the kingdom of God. These men will pay for their sins, don’t join them, you don’t wanna pay too, you already have other sins to worry about.
Let them do their thing, soon the two witnesses Enoch (or Moses) and Elijah will come to Earth to shield the few remaining elected children of God from the wrecked evil that will lash against them. All churches have abandoned us so soon God will send his witnesses to help us. It is done, prophecies are being fulfilled right before our eyes. Fear not, God will take care of you.
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In Christian (communist) Russia everyone must obey comrade Putin, even the Russian Church, or else.