The Serbia-government-backed Missionary Department of the Serbian Orthodox Church has for years, under the guise of fighting “sectarianism, guruism, and New Age movements,” built a narrative that labels minority religious communities as “sects,” criminalizes the New Age movement as a “spiritual threat,” and portrays the West and liberal democracy as sources of moral decay.
This model closely mirrors the patterns of the Russian Orthodox Church—from anti-liberal tirades to the geopolitics of a “spiritual war” against the West.
In practice, this means: every minority faith = a “sect,” every contemporary spiritual trend = “seduction,” every deviation from conservatism = “decadence.”…
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