Saturday, June 8, 2013

Patriarch Kirill Urges Monks to Ignore Internet; Calls Internet a "Hotbed of Sin and Temptation"

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks to turn their backs on the internet, in order to protect themselves from online temptations, such as pornography, the Big News Network website reports today (June 8, 2013).

Patriarch Kirill described the internet as a "hotbed of sin and temptation," and said that monks who forsake worldly pleasures in real life should do likewise on the internet.

The Russian Orthodox Church is known for promoting a strictly "traditionalist" view of many current social issues, particularly those related to sexuality and gender roles.

Kirill has also criticized feminism as being "very dangerous" and that "it is probably not by chance that most feminist leaders are unmarried women."

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