‘Americanism Continues to Prepare the Way for Antichrist’

 

Archbishop Elpidophoros has followed up his awful July 4^th encyclical [of 2024] with an equally atrocious prayer at the Republican National Convention.  In this part he embraces the spurious claim that the political institutions of the United States are the ‘world’s best hope’ for human freedom:

That they may embrace the needs of all Americans, and shine the light of good government upon the venerable institutions of the “world’s best hope” for every person’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

More perceptive Orthodox leaders have never been quite so sanguine about the Enlightenment political ideals that lay at the foundation of Americanism.  St Theophan the Recluse, to name one:

“When royal authority falls,” Theophan had said, “and the people everywhere institute self-government (republics, democracies), then there will be room for the Antichrist to act.  It will not be hard for Satan to prepare voices in favor of renouncing Christ, as experience showed during the French Revolution.  There will be no one to pronounce the authoritative veto.  And so when such regimes, suitable for disclosing the Antichrist’s aspirations, are instituted everywhere, then the Antichrist will appear.”

The Elder Athanasios Mitilinaios pulls the curtains back further on the anti-Christian nature of the US government and others.  Speaking of the battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19, he says (via Fr Peter Heers’s presentation):

These ungodly powers will consist of the atheist communism with its stronghold in the East, the atheist materialism of the West [i.e., the US, Western Europe, and their allies—W.G.], and the atheist Zionism of the Jews. Although these are different ideologies they share one common interest, which is to do away with Christ and His Church.  . . .  They set aside their differences in order to accomplish the goal.

So much for the US as protectors of all those vaunted freedoms, particularly the priceless pearl of MAGA Evangelical Protestantism, ‘religious freedom’.  How many times have Orthodox Christians watched in horror as the US military brutally attacked their brothers and sisters, in Serbia and Syria, in Gaza, the Ukraine, and Russia?  And yet here is Abp Elpidophoros solemnly invoking God’s (which God, we wonder?) protection on the US military at the RNC:

Finally, preserve, protect, and defend the Service men and women who daily safeguard our freedoms, so that in prosperity and tranquility we can worship You, the Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier of the Universe, and be the blesséd People whose God is the Lord.

Does his Eminence follow the news at all?  If he did, he might have been somewhat reluctant to say those lines.  There are other dreadful stories about the US military apart from those we have mentioned regarding the Orthodox:

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The rest is at https://orthodoxreflections.com/americanism-continues-to-prepare-the-way-for-antichrist/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!