ArmInfo. Against the background of the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement in Armenia led by Primate of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, attacks on the AAC have become more frequent.
In particular, Arsen Torosyan, MP from the ruling Civil Contract party, considers the 1700-year history of the Armenian Christian Church a myth that needs to be "destroyed to the ground." "Our people have suffered a very difficult fate. In addition to the fact that they have to destroy more than 100-year-old myths and stereotypes in order to swim in this stormy sea, in fact they still have to finally and completely destroy a 1,700-year-old myth, although they succeeded to do part of it by establishing statehood," Torosyan wrote.
Let us recall that Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion more than 1,700 years ago - in 301 A.D.
This "initiative" of the Armenian MP was commented on by the former temporary administrator of the Yerevan Armenian Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Leonid. In his telegram channel, the clergyman noted that throughout its existence the Church has gone through the most difficult stages. "There were periods of renaissance, there were periods of spiritual stagnation. Regarding the Armenian Apostolic Church - it historically was the cementing material for the ethnos. I will assume that there is no more divided people (Christian) in the world. We went through these words about myths, the uselessness of the Church, reformatting. Recently. A little over a hundred years ago. And I understand perfectly well what is in the minds of these people who are trying to remove cement from the building, replacing it with 'American chewing gum'. I wish the Armenian people courage, wisdom and honor. The Church is not the enemy of the people," the Metropolitan emphasized.