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Patriarch Kirill do not like the tagline Pepsi:
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill at the end of the prayer service in Plovdiv Cathedral Marina criticized the consumer society that promotes false values. The Patriarch said that Christians today offer the same pleasure as in the Holy Marina: a quiet life in exchange for a willingness to follow Christ, but this is the wrong approach.
"We offer:" Take everything from life! ". Very stupid advertising, which everyone knows ", - said Kirill. "They say, 'You deserve it!" Consume as much as possible. This does not mean you have to live in the desert, to be ascetics and nothing to buy. But at the center of our life is to be Christ, and then everything changed, man finds the fullness of his life "- admonished the faithful Patriarch, transmit Bulgarian media.
The Primate said that Martyr Marina could safely live life in an aristocratic family, belong to the elite of society, which is today the dream of many people, but saint refused and chose transitory suffering. Today, people forget that fidelity to Christ can not be combined with life in accordance with the "false customer value».
Earlier the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its concern about the latest trends in Russian society. The Patriarch said that it is necessary to unite efforts of the government, the church, laity and intellectuals against the destructive propaganda which seek to "reformat the mind and soul of the people».
"There is an uneasy feeling that if in the XXI century people finally turn away from their faith, it will mean the destruction of Russia. And in order that it does not happen, we must all work - and the power of the Church, the common people and intellectuals. Today, our work must be directed to the fact that the destructive propaganda action, especially on young people through the mass media and the Internet, not reformatted, as they say, minds and souls of our people ", - says the primate.
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"We offer:" Take everything from life! ". Very stupid advertising, which everyone knows ", - said Kirill. "They say, 'You deserve it!" Consume as much as possible. This does not mean you have to live in the desert, to be ascetics and nothing to buy. But at the center of our life is to be Christ, and then everything changed, man finds the fullness of his life "- admonished the faithful Patriarch, transmit Bulgarian media.
The Primate said that Martyr Marina could safely live life in an aristocratic family, belong to the elite of society, which is today the dream of many people, but saint refused and chose transitory suffering. Today, people forget that fidelity to Christ can not be combined with life in accordance with the "false customer value».
Earlier the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its concern about the latest trends in Russian society. The Patriarch said that it is necessary to unite efforts of the government, the church, laity and intellectuals against the destructive propaganda which seek to "reformat the mind and soul of the people».
"There is an uneasy feeling that if in the XXI century people finally turn away from their faith, it will mean the destruction of Russia. And in order that it does not happen, we must all work - and the power of the Church, the common people and intellectuals. Today, our work must be directed to the fact that the destructive propaganda action, especially on young people through the mass media and the Internet, not reformatted, as they say, minds and souls of our people ", - says the primate.
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