Right-Wing Ecumenism

[haralampopoulosjc]

I'm aware that a lot of focus has been put on the liberal agenda of ecumenism, which seeks to turn World Orthodoxy into a sort of Eastern Anglicanism (female priesthood, married bishops, homosexual marriage), but let's take a moment to consider "right-wing ecumenism". Right-wing ecumenism can be characterized by phyletism and revanchism, the placement of ethnos over Orthodoxy. Two notable figures who I see as proponents of this "right-wing ecumenism" are the political philosophers Aleksandr Dugin and Dimitri Kitsikis. Dugin is a full-blown ethnophyletist who promotes a bizarre Sergianist philosophy (ie, National Bolshevism) which seeks to combine Bolshevism with National Socialism. He dabbles in Occultism and religious syncretism, seeking to combine Orthodoxy with Slavic neo-paganism, and promotes dangerous Russian Messianist beliefs. Kitsikis, on the other hand, promotes the syncretist ideology of Hellenoturkism, which seeks to blasphemously combine Orthodoxy with Alevi-Bektashism to create a new hybrid religion that will be the basis of a new Ottoman Empire. These are the sort of ideas that will serve the coming of Antichrist.

[Lemon Schist]

I agree but what is the solution other than prayer? If you stay out of politics it brings on the antichrist and if you get involved then you bringing on the antichrist.

[haralampopoulosjc]

Politics is a heresy. There is an antichrist of the left-hand and the right-hand. What better way to trick the Orthodox into accepting the antichrist than having a right-wing politician or false Tsar who accepts Orthodoxy only as an outward form?

[Barbara]

This is really interesting ! I didn't know about any of this.
Thanks for the explanation of Dugin and Kitsikis. I had never heard of the latter ! That's intriguing, though, Alevi-Bektashis ? I have to check into what that means.

I knew even from his picture that something was a little too intense about Dugin. What is National Bolshevism ? Is that a joke or kind of serious assessment of his ideas ?

Ethnophyletist means Slavic 1st - and look down on others ?
What does that mean EXACTLY ?

But is this similar to the 19th century Slavophiles, who were not extreme, just proud of their own group, and didn't want slavish imitation of the West when Slavs have their own distinct culture, religion suited for THEM from which they were tending to run away.

[Lemon Schist]

Politics is a heresy. There is an antichrist of the left-hand and the right-hand. What better way to trick the Orthodox into accepting the antichrist than having a right-wing politician or false Tsar who accepts Orthodoxy only as an outward form?

I'm not disagreeing with you, I am asking what the solution is. If there is a solution.

[haralampopoulosjc]

Politics is a heresy. There is an antichrist of the left-hand and the right-hand. What better way to trick the Orthodox into accepting the antichrist than having a right-wing politician or false Tsar who accepts Orthodoxy only as an outward form?

I'm not disagreeing with you, I am asking what the solution is. If there is a solution.

No solution as far as I can tell. Just prayer and discernment when it comes to so-called "Orthodox" politicians like Putin.

[haralampopoulosjc]

This is really interesting ! I didn't know about any of this.
Thanks for the explanation of Dugin and Kitsikis. I had never heard of the latter ! That's intriguing, though, Alevi-Bektashis ? I have to check into what that means.

I knew even from his picture that something was a little too intense about Dugin. What is National Bolshevism ? Is that a joke or kind of serious assessment of his ideas ?

Ethnophyletist means Slavic 1st - and look down on others ?
What does that mean EXACTLY ?

But is this similar to the 19th century Slavophiles, who were not extreme, just proud of their own group, and didn't want slavish imitation of the West when Slavs have their own distinct culture, religion suited for THEM from which they were tending to run away.

Patriotism is a healthy and even admirable quality, but phyletism would be hatred towards other ethnicities, or thinking that your own ethnicity is superior to some or all others. I would have to find the encyclical that condemns it as a heresy.

And no, Dugin isn't joking when he promotes National Bolshevism. That's the term that he himself uses.