'Catholicism is a Western European phenomenon; Orthodoxy is Eurasian’: Dugin
Philosopher A. Dugin compared the expansion of the Vatican with the advance of NATO to the East
Feb. 15, 2006
MOSCOW. The Vatican's foreign policy towards Russia is hostile to Russian Orthodoxy, Alexander Dugin, a well-known philosopher and political scientist, leader of the International Eurasian Movement, is convinced.
"The current actions of the Vatican grossly disturb the balance of church policy. This is an analogue of "NATO expansion to the East", an act of expressing hostility towards the Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox civilization. We are talking about the actual declaration of Russia as a "zone of active proselytism", "the territory of the direct vital interests of the Vatican", - said A. Dugin in an interview with the newspaper "NG-Religions".
In his opinion, there is not only a dogmatic, but also a civilizational difference between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, since "Kievan Rus as a spiritual part of Byzantium belonged to the Eurasian pole". "Catholicism is a Western European phenomenon. Orthodoxy is Eurasian. There has been tension between these two cultural poles since the 8th century, if not earlier," the philosopher said. Therefore, according to A. Dugin, "Catholics are heretics and will always be heretics for Orthodox peoples, as we are for them".
A. Dugin is sure that the aggravation of the interfaith situation is beneficial "only to those forces that want to disrupt the development of Russian-European relations in every possible way, that is, the actual real movement towards the creation of the Eurasian empire". Such a force, according to the philosopher, is, first of all, the United States.
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