Patriarch Kirill said that to pay tithes to the Church — national tradition of Russia

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Патриарх Кирилл сказал, что платить десятину церкви — национальная традиция России

The head of the ROC Patriarch Kirill said that the tithe, which in Russia began to use the Prince Vladimir, is a tradition of our people. Because for many years the state in General, and before that, a separate Principality, do pay the Church tithes.

The Patriarch believes that a society that pays Church tithing is a society of justice and solidarity. The Patriarch, however, forgot to add that some time during the existence of tithes, serfdom, which it’s not particularly fair measure at least relative to a serf. But apparently it is not as important as tithing to the Church.

The Patriarch clearly believes that when the society is tithing, there is obvious and friendship among peoples, a kind of civic solidarity. Then there is a fee of tithing to the Church as if it unites people.

Sounds like and beautiful, here only it is doubtful that the government is willing to pay the Church a tenth of their income or ordinary believers begin to give the Church their money in such volumes.

It is worth noting that in the 90-ies of the Metropolitan Cyril, the future Patriarch, in conversation with the guard of Yeltsin Korzhakov asked to consider seriously the possibility of the introduction of tithing in Russia. It is important to note that it was the tithes from the state to the ROC. But the Church refused.

In General, the Patriarch of the strange ideas of how to “improve life” in Russia, as in fact the tithe will improve only the life of the Church hierarchy, who now live well. And if the tithing and the state will go, then clearly it will not be paid for the incomes of officials, and at the expense of the poor, i.e. the majority will remain in the red. Fortunately, that is still the modern state does not consider it reasonable to pay ROC tithing.

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