Ethnologist Ivan Čolović talks about the fact that the church leadership is on the side of the regime, about the belt of the Holy Virgin and other miracles for the new issue of "Vremena".
Why SPC silent on everything in the state, even on the suffering of people at the hands of the government? Which is why the immediate help of the Mother of God is needed by the archbishops at the moment when they are cleaning their ranks from the bishops who sided with the students and "colored revolutions"?
Ethnologist Ivan Čolović, publisher (20th century), author of several indispensable books on myths, on the role of the Church and the state in contemporary society, talks about the girdle of the Blessed Virgin Mary and other miracles in a conversation with Ivan Milenković.
We publish the interview in the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday (May 28).
"This is about symbiosis." Churches and the state, with the fact that I think it is realized as the constitution of a secular religion, Serbian nationalism as a religion. Both, the Church and the state, celebrate the sanctuaries of national identity, which helps Vučić's Serbia to turn into an autocracy that legitimizes itself as the inviolable guardian of sacred values, family, tradition, the church, Kosovo, the village, šajkača, plum and similar sacred emblems and symbols, to name a few. On the wings of the holy Serbian national identity, the Church gains space for expansion, population, education and enrichment, a space it would not have had it stuck to its Christian mission and service."
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