Whose power is the faith. Why do Orthodoxy shake wars and Protestantism is not?

"Orthodoxy is built on a hierarchical principle, from top to bottom. It is essentially an army principle. The head of the Church has full power, arranges personnel: professional priests - as officers in the army. " Opinion. The whole thing is the difference between organizational principles that lift Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Orthodoxy is lined up on a hierarchical principle, from top to bottom. In fact, this is an army principle.

The head of the Church has the fullness of power, places personnel: professional priests, as well as officers in the army, are advanced by their career ladders, their career is mainly dependent on the flock, but on the commitment , the greater material goods and privileges he has. Such a church has its own orders and their generals.

The church organized on the army principle is a rigid bureaucratic vertical that does not tolerate any discussion and requires unconditional subordination from its clergy. Such an organization is easy to manage, using, as in the army, the usual circular principle. It is clear that as any bureaucratic organization, it is not effective, but easily controlled.

And if the church is numerous, encompasses millions of parishioners with its influence and is still easily managed, then such a church is an undeniable political interest to any power. Two bureaucratic organizations, power and church, easily find common interest and exchange services. The church gives the authorities loyalty to its parishioners, and power gives the church patronage.

But if, for historical reasons, there are two or more churches in the country that can be compared by their potential, then there is a natural rivalry for state patronage. Usually the church supported by the authorities is also won. The struggle will continue until a single Orthodox Church remains in the country. If there are no other denominations in the country, then such a church and its religion, in fact, become a state church and a state religion so that it is not written in the Constitution.

Unlike Orthodoxy, numerous Protestant denominations are organized on the principle of the network. There is only one Christian ideology that unites, so to speak, basic principles, and Protestant communities are organized not on a hierarchical principle, but on the basis of a grassroots autonomous initiative.

Each community itself is organized, it chooses a community leader, and, as a rule, on a temporary rotary basis, which most often performs its duties, as they say, without a break from production. That is, some kind of Vasya-Slusar may accept membership fees, rituals and more during the year.

For the state, for politicians, such network organizations are of no interest, because such an organization does not have a higher hierarch that could circularly influence the entire church in favor of the authorities.

Well, really, how to influence a church consisting of, say, 20,000 communities?! And each community is financially autonomous, does not require any patronage, moreover, in every possible way it sits power, practically does not property, buildings and land, and does not want to have them, does not trade excise goods, their clerics do not make careers, have no benefits . An uninteresting organization. Obviously, there are their grands between the Protestant denominations.

But they cannot involve the state and their communities themselves, because of the network principle of the organization. They cannot attract the state to their side to try to become a dominant, that is, the State Church and the State Religium.

The general conclusion is that if there are churches in the country, built on a bureaucratic, army principle, then they will always fight with other churches built on a similar principle and involve power and politicians in this struggle by selling their church verticals. If such a struggle has led to the victory of one church, then it is impossible to implement the principle of the church from the state in such a country in principle, since the authorities and the church merge in ecstasy.