With God On Whose Side?

There is a wildly-held fallacy that religions are not concerned about worldly issues and their only concern is about spiritual matters. The recent conflict between Russia and Ukraine illustrates that this is not the case. '"An end to the designs of those who want to destroy Holy Russia", said by Patriarch Kirill 1 of Moscow, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. "Against our peace-loving nation .... there has been injustice.", said by Patriarch Filaret, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.' (Times, 21 April) In conflicts between different sections of the owning class they rely on nationalism and religion to motivate their working class to take up arms. RD