Religious claims aren't falsifiable, so science is really the only way we have of accumulating knowledge about how the world actually works. Evidently our friend the patriarch is well aware of this, but of course would never admit it as long as there's money to be made and power to be wielded over others.
Patriarch Kirill is a KGB agent responsible for a long-running, Soviet-style operation to discredit Christian orthodoxy.
Evidence?
I live in a part of the world where this is, sadly, as well known as the fact that the sun rises - but this is just one respectable source among many: https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/10/how-the-russian-orthodox-church-became-a-weapon-of-political-warfare/
Thank you!
Religious claims aren't falsifiable, so science is really the only way we have of accumulating knowledge about how the world actually works. Evidently our friend the patriarch is well aware of this, but of course would never admit it as long as there's money to be made and power to be wielded over others.
And theology is famously indifferent to reality.