Tonight’s session deals with a huge problem not only with the “Soviet church” apologetics but also in Orthodoxy at large and in our civilization at large: the false teachings that
- true Christians do not actively oppose evil and do not expose falsehood, but only “suffer in silence,”

• that those who do oppose evil and expose falsehood are “proud” and have “zeal not according to knowledge.”

• that evildoers must be “healed” by our “compassion” and not be called to repentance; that they deserve our compassion as much as - or more than - their victims!

Does this all sound familiar to our ears, based on social developments in our own country? Well, it’s nothing new: Tonight we’ll hear the words of a famous Sergianist “theologian” - and still a hero to the OCA modernists and people of their ilk, Archbishop John Shahovskoy - expressing these very thoughts back in in the 1940s.

1. Falsehood the Foundation of the Soviet “Government” and “Church” - pp. 35-36

1. A phenomenon new in history
2. Article in the JMP of an Abp. Alexander
a. Now is not the time for St. John the Baptist’s call to repentance. b. It’s the time for “healing souls” c. Blasphemes Ss. Sergius and Seraphim.

B. The Truth: Now is the time for bold confession not compromise
1. Article “Voice of a New Emigrant”
a. The revolution is God’s punishment for sin b. The healing of the people can only be accomplished by returning to the spiritual height of the Catacomb Church. c. For this to happen, the priests must be willing to confess the truth and go to their deaths d. Main enemy at present: Not the communists but the priests!
C. Rejoinder to Abp Alexander - pp. 36 - 37
1. Why is now not the time for the call to repentance? 2. Why do the persecutors deserve mercy but not the victims? 3. Ss Sergius and Seraphim never gave such “testaments.” (It is characteristic of Russian modernists to contrast the “compassionate” and “merciful” Russian saints with the “fiery” and “denunciatory” ancient saints”.

D. The New Tolstoyism - Teachings of John Shahovskoy. - pp. 37 - 45
1. Church Tolstoyism - the most characteristic feature of representatives of the Soviet church.
2. They disguise their hypocritical duplicity and servility to evil with buzzwords like “love, tolerance, and forgiveness.”
For the classic expose and refutation of Tolstoy’s “non-resistance to evil” philosophy, see Ivan Ilyin’s On Resistance to Evil by Force.
3. Who was John Shahovskoy? https://orthodoxwiki.org/John_(Shahovskoy)_of_San_Francisco.
4. His misuse of the Antichrist “legend” of Ivan in Brothers Karamazov. - pp. 37 - 38 a. Christ kisses Antichrist, and we must kiss Stalin! b. This type of love on earth is higher than love in heaven! c. This incredible prelest and blasphemy is a foundational belief in Shahovskoy’s thought.
5. Refutation by Met Anastassy - pp. 38 - 39 - We must unmask falsehood publicly and openly. a. Why not? If not now, when? b. Arguments and the exposure of evil will ALWAYS be part of the life of the Church, from the time of the Savior till now and to the end.
6. Another false teaching of Shahovskoy - We must not denounce falsehood, because we are all sinners. pp. 39 - 40
a. Bizarre remarks about the hymns at the beginning of the Triodion. b. Confusing unmasking false teaching with moral condemnation of our neighbor.
c. Recall accusations against St. Maximus, using same false argument.
d. The Catacomb Church confessors are sincere; they cannot lie and bow to evil with hypocritical “compassion.” If they are wrong, prove them wrong by argument, but don’t call them “Pharisees.”