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Deputy Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family ROC proposed a school subject «meaning of life», reports Lenta.ru report . Excerpts from a lecture Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, delivered on March 25 at Northern State Medical University, are Online Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory diocese.
«I thought so algebra to geometry, and good geography and biology, nice and Russian literature — but the main problem, they do not solve» — said Father Dimitry, stressing that the Russian people to change consciousness. «We need to change the meaning of life and its direction» — stated the priest.
According to Fr, it is the pursuit of false targets led to the fact that in Russia «people mostly sullen and unhappy.» The main directions of Father Dimitry called a sense of responsibility before God and man, and God\’s will.
Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, was included in the Patriarchal Commission on Family and maternity protection in March 2013. Before that, he was head of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies. On appointment became known two months after his father Demetrius offered to return to the Russian tax on childlessness, which existed in the USSR.
On September 12012 in most Russian schools have introduced a course framework of religious culture and secular ethics, in which among other includes modules on the main religions practiced in the country. In January 2013 Patriarch Kirill expressed concern that in Moscow the small number of students selected module «Foundations of Orthodox Culture.»