Moscow, April 29, Interfax – Head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin is convinced that western model of social development is loosened from its entrenchment and intellectual dispute of its elites with the rest of the world has already been lost.
“I am sure that western elites have lost intellectual dispute. Yes, they still have more weapons and more money than other parts of the world, but they can’t answer anything to the question about the limit of growth, on the question about foundations of unfair powerful and economic dominant, they’ve already lost intellectual dispute,” he said on air Ekho Moskvy radio station.
According to the priest, today the question is how modern world, modern society will develop further.
The church official is convinced that current vector of development, at least, the one dominating in informational and political environment, “has already proven its malignancy on the intellectual level, people will change this vector.”
Father Vsevolod believes that dictatorship of the rotten human mind in modern, dominating in the world, economical and political structures “will last very few years.”
“And I hope that at least we will be able to tell people quietly and calmly: you shouldn’t live for material welfare, for egoistic desires, for preserving health, only for this earthily life, but to live, even at the level of social organization, for God’s truth. I hope that people will understand it more and more,” the priest said.
