Its amazing what greed does to people.
I’ve been receiving copies of this letter.
Its addressed to my neighbour who hasn’t lived here for five years.
Like classic comedy, its creepy and hilarious at the same time.

The problem I have with Christianity is that I have never met a priest who is Jesus Christ. In the bible I read about saints, God, the Holy Spirit, but I have never met a priest that behaves like them. Recently I was at a Russian Orthodox Christening, and the priest lectured everyone present for about an hour on what bad Christians they were because they came to the church without a cross hanging around their neck, because they didn’t come everyday to pray, because they were proud and knew nothing about Christianity and christenings. He ranted about how a christening wasn’t a show, but a serious choice in ones life and how the godmother and godfather were supposed to be the spiritual guides of this infant and how we live in degenerate times etc… I was exhausted listening to him and kept remembering that in the bible it was clearly written ” my father’s house has many doors and everyone is welcome”. The priest checked everyone’s knowledge of the bible chastising their lack thereof and I sat there in the back fuming, thinking whether I should leave or pray. I decided to Pray. I felt the priest’s attitude was anti Christian, embarrassing and so common that if I removed his frock he could be confused with a truck driver. At some point he looked towards me and asked if I was sick. I didn’t reply because I was sick. Sick of his mannerisms, sick of his arrogance, sick of him and his overbearing faith. At the end of the ceremony he apologised and I found that even more pathetic. Having humiliated everyone, he humiliated himself. After leaving the church I thought about where this man came from. He probably had a criminal background and fell in priesthood as a way to vent his anger at the world and attempt to redeem his self loathing. The event made me think about how religion shapes a culture and how the orthodox religion in it’s Russian form, is often used erroneously as a medium of pagan mysticism, violence and obedience. I mean really, some priests don’t seem to understand anything at all about the words of Christ and his message which is fundamentally about loving thy brethren and compassion for all.