{"id":1599,"date":"2006-05-03T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2006-05-03T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T00:57:43","slug":"orthodox-metropolitan-warns-europe-against-abandoning-christian-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/orthodox-metropolitan-warns-europe-against-abandoning-christian-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Metropolitan warns Europe against abandoning Christian roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax.com\/3\/153358\/news.aspx\">Interfax<\/a> May 3, 2006 <\/p>\n<p>VIENNA. The Russian Orthodox Church believes that Europe&#8217;s  abandonment  of its Christian roots could ultimately lead European  society  to shocks comparable to those that Russia experienced under the  Bolsheviks,  Metropolitan  Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad has said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia&#8217;s history in the 20th century should serve as a warning for contemporary   Europe:   the   abandonment  of  spiritual  and  cultural foundations  on  which  this  or that civilization is based could pose a serious  threat  to  civilization  itself,&#8221;  Father  Kirill  said  at an international conference in Vienna on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We  worry that, by losing the link with Christianity, Europe might finally  come  to  forms  of  pressure  on  or  even  suppression  of an individual that have always been alien to it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interfax May 3, 2006 VIENNA. The Russian Orthodox Church believes that Europe&#8217;s abandonment of its Christian roots could ultimately lead European society to shocks comparable to those that Russia experienced under the Bolsheviks, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}