Paul Goble
Staunton, Dec. 13 – If current demographic trends continue, with fertility rates among Russians significantly lower than among historically Muslim nations in that country, Hieromonk Ioann says, 50 years from now, -- that is in 2075 -- Russia will have more Muslims than Orthodox Christians and thus have the right to call itself a Muslim country.
The Russian Orthodox priest who left Russia a year ago because of opposition to Putin’s war in Ukraine argues that in fact Russia is becoming Muslim much more rapidly than that as many who call themselves Orthodox do so are not believers believing while Muslims are far more committed (novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/12/13/glubokaia-dukhovnaia-turbulentnost).
He bases his conclusions on Russian census data, interior ministry reporting about attendance at religious services, and sociological studies and points out that it is the combination of ethnic Russian decline and non-Russian Muslim growth that is behind what many will view as a civilizational shift.
According to the priest now in emigration in France, the declining size of Russian Orthodoxy in Russia under current arrangements will be “a stimulus for the rebirth in Russia of a free Orthodox church,” a development that will allow everyone to see that the ROC MP as currently run is in fact less a church than “a form of paganism, an imperial-militarist cult.”
No comments:
Post a Comment