The church came third in the list of goals. But here the turmoil rages. However, as Saint Chrysostom says, "let the sea rage, it cannot dissolve the rock"! Today there are real events that oblige the leadership of the church to rush to a guaranteed process of deep and extensive cleansing.
There were those who envied the glory of the Great High Priest who excels in committing crimes in the name of Christ and boasts that he "corrects" his work.
We are not unaware that the nation and the country are targets of multiple threats. The new order plans rearrangements and revisions in our wider surroundings. These plans have a cost in stability, security, and borders. The bosses do not hide that they want to pass it on to us. Here lies the deeper cause of the events of these days. When the nation has a high fighting spirit, self-confidence, and a psychology of victory, it will resist. If they plunder the spirit of the people, if they morally wound those who can inspire it, presenting them as guilty of crimes and making them completely unreliable, then they have achieved their goals.
The Orthodox Church is for many non-Orthodox and heterodox, but mainly for the neotaxites, an incompatible hard core, deeply committed to tradition and timeless values of life. And therefore, impregnable.