{"id":9791,"date":"2021-05-12T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2021-05-08T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T11:51:36","slug":"fr-george-maximov-on-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9791","title":{"rendered":"Fr George Maximov on Atheists\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at atheists, with what hatred some of them speak of Christ and the Church! This can\u2019t be explained merely by unbelief. For instance, I don\u2019t believe in Buddha, but I have never had the desire to mock him and his followers constantly and devote as much time to this as some atheists devote to their struggle against Christianity. And, interestingly, atheists don\u2019t display such an attitude to Buddha or Mohammed. Let\u2019s suppose that they are simply afraid to express their attitude towards Mohammed. But what about Confucius, Lao-tzu and others?… Anyway, you won\u2019t find in them such an obsessive and burning animosity against anything as they what have towards Christ!<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s Christ Who cuts them to the quick. Sometimes, seeing their hatred, I think, what exactly has Christ done to you that\u2019s so bad? I could understand why you hate priests, say, such as me. But what wrong has Christ done to you? But it is Christ Whom they hate, because they sense His holiness. Their conscience often denounces them, and in order to stifle its voice they turn on the spiritual mechanism that you have mentioned.<\/p>\n

The evil spirits are not sleeping either. If a person still hesitates and doesn\u2019t know what to believe, they push him in a certain direction and stealthily send him particular information.<\/p>\n

– Interview in pravoslavie.ru<\/p>\n

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