Patriarch Porfirije: "We know this is not true"

In an interview with Svetigora, which was done during the patriarch's visit to Montenegro on September 4, and was published today, he stated that the Church in itself cannot be politicly affiliated, supporting one option against another.
"The church brings people together, it is an organism that not only has a place for everything, but by its nature is an organism that embraces every person, and especially the one who has something against it. So, we have nothing to answer about, we know that it is not true", he said.
He assessed that there are various factors, both domestic and foreign, which see the Church as an enemy for the system of values according to which modern man lives, "which is outside of God and against God".
He added that the value system imposed on us by this modern world cannot tolerate the gospel value system.
"We need to simplify things and crucify ourselves with Christ, looking at His resurrection, we pray to God for every soul. We cannot agree that we are on one side and they are on the other, for us, we are all on the same side. And we cannot agree that we have enemies, no matter how they treat us", he said.

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He assessed that there are countless people, even in Montenegro, who unknowingly, who knows how seduced, precisely in the absence of these philanthropic, universal Christian, evangelical values ​​- go astray.
"And the more you open one's heart, the more you show one love, the more it bothers one, but we cannot give up. Sooner or later love covers everything, as the apostle Paul says: the love of Christ is beyond reason," he said.
He pointed out that everyone can be what they want, and to declare the list how they feel, but he also emphasized that he must accept and...