Beating children, having children with Russians, and forgiving debts: #ShameReview from the Russian Orthodox Church
🤯 Refusing to return borrowed money is considered a sin, рассказал Hieromonk Makarii, a cleric of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, however, if a person is unable to repay a debt, it would be right to forgive him.
"[As a Christian, I] must come to terms with this and forgive the debtor. By giving the money, I acknowledged that the person is insolvent," Macarius explained. "Unforgiveness breeds resentment and anger, and nothing good comes from that."
🤯 Archpriest Andrei Tkachev saidWhile physical punishment is bad, there are times when it's unavoidable. For example, if a child is being "too provocative."
"For physical punishment to be used even occasionally with any degree of appropriateness, a complete family is needed. The child needs to be modeled on both compassion and strictness," says Tkachev. "People who have endured something in life grow up better. Upbringing should be Spartan."
🤯 Archpriest Mikhail Dudko She urged to combat the “decline of the Russian population” not only by imposing restrictions on migrants, but also by increasing the birth rate of “Russian men.”
"Maybe it's none of my business, but we're actually seeing a decline in our Russian population, despite everything—not because they're drinking themselves to death, not because they're dying early... But also because we're having very few children," Dudko said on the Orthodox television channel Spas.