Ioana Lupea: “The Churches agenda converts to a canvass”
This year is a holly gift for the Romanian Orthodox Churches hierarchs and an opportunity to mystical revelations for the Romanian politicians.
It’s time for a definitive union between politics and the Church, which will be favorable to both and harm the laical grounds of our state.
After terminating the episode that described the collaborative relationships between priests and the former Securitate, we see things like catechizing the schools, replacing Civil Code amendments with excerpts from the Bible and now, a clear fight that brings the priests back in the local and central administration.
All of this is carried out in order to purify the public mores, as if the only moral stands are placed in religion. The Churches agenda converts to a canvass.
No more delirium coming from enriched businessmen that use the Bible in order to become Romania’s president. A large cross hanging on the chest and a bag of silver coins is worth precisely nothing in eternal scale. In any case much less than the Government’s decision to fund half the People’s Redemption Cathedral (Catedrala Mantuirii Neamului), which will cost us about 500 million euros.
Or anyway, far less than the decision to introduce Trinitas TV, the Patriarch’s television, in the cable TV standard offers by National Council of Audio-Visual (CNA).
Something like defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, with the socialist contribution of the Parliament, or maintaining religion classes as compulsory education, is not a marker for the Church. These achievements cannot be compared with the laws created by democrat-liberals in order to bring back priests in the Parliament and the local administration. Policians have dusted of their beliefs and started working together to consolidate the role of priests throughout politics and society.
By doing so, the politicians hope that the avenging God in the religion books will show mercy during the elections.
Romania lacks a José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero that would win elections in an ultra-catholic Spain, against an alliance between the Popular Party and the Church. But then again, Romania has a good example of a Christian, personified by Ioan Oltean, the vice-president of the Democrat Liberal Party (PDL). Oltean is publicly accused that he tried to buy cheap electricity for his own company, named Beny Alex.
He was caught living in three houses throughout Bucharest while receiving rent money from the Parliament. Ioan Oltean is lacking a political project so he decided to have the holly mission of promoting priests throughout politics. He initiated a law that enables BOR to have representatives in the Parliament.
These priests and other Church representatives would have the right to express themselves upon education or patrimony laws. Most likely, Oltean saw no sign of God’s mercy after this gesture, so he embraced the Church’s decision to allow priests to become mayors or city counselors.
In order to gain another vote, the liberal, popular or socialist politicians are changing the relationship between the state and the Church by sacrificing what they should have been defending all along. They sacrificed Romania’s profane status.
Meanwhile, these regulations suite the Romanian Orthodox Church, who covets at the power of her Russian sister.