Atheist Atheist systems come and go, but the Christian faith remains Moscow Patriarch draws parallels between the modern Europe and the former atheistic Soviet Union: Philosophical systems come and go, but the Christian faith has existed for 2,000 years Moscow (kath.net)
The Moscow Patriarch Cyril was in a meeting with German President Christian Wulff critical of Europe expressed and drawn a parallel between the modern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This reports the agency RIA Novosti. Patriarch Cyril said at an interview in the Moscow headquarters here verbatim: "The Russian Church has for decades existed in a country where atheism was the official ideology ... The religious life was forced out of the lounge ... and could only within the strict framework of the pure private life manifest or family life "
During the Soviet era, religion was a challenge to the official ideology and was contrary to the dominant philosophical systems in the human consciousness, said Kyrill. The same is happening now in Western Europe. "It is not directly required to banish a bright future for the Christian presence from the public. The demands are different: "The human rights want to have crosses from schools and religion be banished from the public." Finally, the Patriarch said that he continue to pray for the presence of Christian values in Europe. Philosophical systems come and go, but the Christian faith has existed for 2,000 years.
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parallel between Europe and atheistic Soviet Union
