Advertising on the bags of antidoron?
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Weekly Prezent criticizes the Orthodox Church, charging that priests
and church leaders are too sensitive to the political world, instead of
paying attention to Romania's real problems.
A church in Bucharest had the crazy but profitable idea of writing on
the bags of holy bread handed out to believers on Resurrection Night
the name of a company that sponsored the patriarchy. God's servants
adjust to new times, some people who are less sensitive may say about
the funny symbiosis between "Christ has resurrected!" and "Bronec -
security, monitoring, interventions, telephone: ..., fax: ...." But to
what new times is the Romanian Orthodox Church adapting? With what area of the Romanian reality does it synchronize? With capitalism, that's
for sure. With the original, made in Romania, capitalism.
A success easy to take into account by the fancy cars and proud houses
of some high priests and the mercantilism of most priests in cities,
who have become a sort of spiritual taxpayer, extremely efficient in
making a profit from anybody who willingly or unwillingly sets foot
into the house of God. The ways of politics were also learned. New to
the free-thinkers from the Social Democratic Party, some priests made
new records of servility - each according to their own possibility and
rank. In the rural area, during the election campaign, they urged
believers to "go with God and vote for the Social Democrats!" or even
required they sign a commitment that they would vote as they were told.
Up on the hierarchal scale, a bishop enrolled in the election campaign
of a future mayor.
Extremely quick in adjusting to new traditions in economy and politics,
the Orthodox Church is not in a hurry to show us it is able to see the
other face of Romania. The one that actually needs material and
spiritual support the most. Romania doesn't have only former communist
activists eager to receive decorations or who need somebody to hold the
microphone for them. It also has old people ignored by social
assistance services, it has sick people who are not able to face a
bankrupt medical system, street children, and more and more young
people who do drugs.