I find this an excellent statement, from Archpriest Andrey Tkachev:
“Everyone talks about their own banal understanding of peace, without naming the main reasons for the war: there will be no peace for the sodomites, there will be no peace for those who kill children, there will be no peace for those who change their gender, there will be no peace for thieves and those who do wicked things, and for those who have stopped praying and are immersed in sin up to their nostrils – there will be no peace for them, ever. All the patriarchs, all priests and bishops should proclaim this.
“We need," the archpriest concluded, "to start a serious conversation about peace, about the genesis of war, about the genesis of sin, about the inner connection between sin and war, about the deep godlessness of modern civilizations and the fact that, for humanity, all this will inevitably result in bloodshed. This is simply God's Law.”
In order to live in peace, one must first repent. In order to repent, one must recognize a sin as sin.
I read this statement and shake my head at why such a simple concept is beyond the reach of so many Christian leaders today.
http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-precondition-for-peace.html
