KGB, CIA, and the Deconstruction of Orthodoxy

https://inklesspen.blog/2019/12/17/kgb-cia-and-the-deconstruction-of-orthodoxy/ 

 

In this post, two articles will be primarily highlighted. Both articles illustrate several root issues that have provided the fertile ground in which the current actions of the EP have blossomed and manifested fruit.

The first article is – Fr. Kyrill Johnson: the Prestige of the Oecumenical Patriarch. This article was kindly sent to me by a reader, for which I’m very grateful. I encourage everyone to read it in full.

The above article was written in the 1940s. Evidently, at that time the particular mindsets that have only grown and become more well-defined with the passing of time were already existent. 

 Of course, the Patriarch of whom the author writes is the infamous Meletios, who was a Mason.

From very early on Meletios was intimately tied to political powers. Two notable powers mentioned (besides Greek politicians) in the article are Britain and the United States. The reader also will note that one of the main concerns for the EP, even at that time, was one of maintaining the Greek ethnos. The primary matter was that of the preservation of “Greek nationalism.” Meletios is said to be a “Greek nationalist.” 

 The EP has been working with Western powers since the early 1900s, it has been willing to use the Orthodox Faith itself as a bartering chip for its own survival, and political issues occupy a place of primary importance (at times above matters of faith).

The second article is – Ousting the Ecumenical Patriarch: the removal of Maximos V according to CIA records.

This article simply confirms that which many have long known – during the Cold War the EP was developed and supported by the US as an asset to counter “Soviet influence,” specifically as it was perceived through the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) at that time.

 The EP, who already had a history of deep collaboration with Western powers, became the obvious choice.

The prime candidate was Athenagoras. I have pointed out in previous posts that Athenagoras was a Mason. The author of the article rightly points out that Athenagoras is a very influential figure in 20th-century Orthodoxy. 

 The current EP has progressed well beyond the excesses of his predecessors. He is bringing the Masonic work begun by both Meletios and Athenagoras to a dark fulfillment

 It is worth noting in closing, that the great Saint of the 20^th century, John Maximovich, also wrote in a loving manner in 1938 warning of the decline and corruption of the EP.