According to RIA Novosti, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill explained the enthusiasm for paganism among the special forces soldiers, as well as athletes, by the inaction of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church. At a meeting of the Patriarchal Commission on Physical Culture and Sports, the Primate noted: “When we began to receive information that some pagan views are now becoming popular among athletes, at first we treated this as a kind of oddity, an absolute exception to the rule. And then, after a large amount of information was collected, we realized that both in the sports environment and among the military, especially those who work in the field of special operations, where there is a constant risk to life, they are becoming popular among a certain part of athletes and military personnel, pagan ideas, ideas arising from a pagan attitude towards man. ' The Patriarch stressed that this tendency should not be treated indifferently. Athletes and special forces fighters especially need spiritual support, and if the Church demonstrates inaction in this matter, the created vacuum can be filled with anything, including pagan ideas - from which, of course, nothing good will come of it. After all, the propaganda of a healthy lifestyle is very easy to replace with a pagan attitude in the human body, which is fraught with an appeal to pagan cults.
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