Archpriest Andrei Tkachev (MP) mocking quarantine protection measures.
The pandemic now ravaging the Orthodox Church is
not only COVID-19 but also fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is a sort of populism
for the church. It is based on post-truth and conspiracy theories. Although it
pretends to be pietistic, it is quite secular and secularizing. I would apply
to fundamentalism the phrase once coined by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “cheap grace.”
Fundamentalism is a cheap spirituality and a cheap substitute for genuine
ecclesial existence.