Salus Maior wrote:The Eternal Aulus wrote: Honestly, I think it's a good thing on the long term.
Not when it comes to the Orthodox Church and how it structures itself.
In the past, autocephaly was something that a mother church would give to its offspring church (such as when Constantinople gave autocephaly to the Russian Church) of its own goodwill. If this schism is widely accepted it'll set a very bad precedent that could potentially destroy the unity of the Orthodox Church. After all, if backstabbing and bullying another Orthodox church gets you what you want, and people recognize that as valid, that's going to become a setup for anarchy and disunity.
Russia created anarchy and disunity by launching an armed invasion against their fellow Orthodox neighbors in Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill could have condemned Putin's decision but he did not, in fact, from what I have read, many regard him as acting like a puppet of Putin.