The ROCOR Hobgoblin: ‘State Exploitation of Religious Institutions’

H.L. Mencken once noted: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Americans don’t read Mencken anymore. Or much else. But the imaginary hobgoblins keep coming.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, lazily tacked on as an afterthought two years after the Constitution became effective, begins: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Like the rest of the Old Parchment, that particular clause is D-E-A-D. To wit: On November 20, 2025, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson and two of his Republican colleagues, Don Bacon and Austin Scott, sent a letter to putative U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. In their joint missive, these paragons of democratic virtue requested the federal government investigate Orthodox Christianity in America, specifically, for now, Russian Orthodoxy. One assumes the OCA, the Greeks, Armenians, et al, are next. 

No, I don’t think this is the beginning stage of bringing Georgia Briggs’s novel, Icon, to life. At least, I hope it isn’t. Regardless, our esteemed public servants allege: “Credible evidence indicates that the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) continues to serve as an instrument of the Kremlin and its security services.” It could be, as someone once said, “You lie!” Read the whole letter, as found HERE, and decide for yourself.

If the concern were about AIPAC, the ADL, and “Israel” and its security services, then it would be most warranted. Of course, Wilson is a hardcore anti-Russian activist, ever seeking to help “free and democratic” Ukraine fight NATO’s war against Moscow, thereby potentially allowing Western financial looters unfettered access to the world’s largest repository of valuable resources and a vector for containing all those pesky Orthodox Russians. As the war in Europe is all but lost for NATO, its pet Nazis, and gentlemen like Wilson, perhaps turning the imperial guns on Russianesque Christians in the American homeland is the best consolation the hobgoblin wranglers can muster.

None of this is new, by the way, being but the latest facade on the same old anti-Christian American storefront. Washington, D.C., is, as I have written and mapped out before, a gigantic freemasonic-satanic temple. Such a hideous design is fitting, as what passes for a government in America is now completely controlled by satanists. The American experiment was kicked off on April 10, 1606, in London, when a band of wealthy masons and their sodomite King chartered what was essentially a hedge fund. The colonies, first corporate, then Royal, were populated largely by Protestants—Anglicans in the South, Puritans in the North (roughly speaking). Orthodoxy, for the longest time, was unheard of in America. Roman Catholicism was limited, mostly, to Maryland. 

It was 1962 before the Protestant base nation saw fit to elect their first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy. While he was popular with the people, he was, as is well known, most unpopular with the ruling elite. Hence, they got rid of him. Orthodoxy came to America in small, quiet pieces. A large and organized concentration of “Eastern” Christians came, thanks to Russia, to Alaska and what became the Northwestern states, maybe as far south as California. Now, with the Latin Church caught in a Sedevacantist spiral, and American Protestantism weakening and fracturing exponentially, Orthodoxy enjoys healthy and deserved growth nationwide. The alternative, which is, sadly, also growing by leaps and bounds, is found in paganism, new ageism, witchcraft, and satanism. These latter “religions” serve the luciferian globalist agenda in America; Orthodoxy does not.

America is the only country in history to drop an atomic bomb on a church, Nagasaki’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral in 1945 (500 meters is close enough to count with horseshoes, hand grenades, and, especially, A-bombs). America just helped “Israel” bomb Christians and their churches in Gaza. America assists the Kievan Nazis in their looting and murder of Christianity in the former Ukraine. And America has run sophisticated psychological operations pitting various religious groups against each other, from Japan to Syria. The oppression has been martial, but also legalistic. In its early days, Wilson’s South Carolina made Catholicism illegal. Again, Orthodoxy was virtually unknown at the time. Interestingly enough, back then, Judaism was permitted. 

Wilson is, for the record, a Presbyterian. Presbyterianism is a Scottish-English dissent denomination that broke from the Church of England in the mid-1600s. The Church of England broke from Rome a century earlier. Rome broke with the other Patriarchies in 1054. One supposes God is perturbed, if unsurprised, by our long-running follies. 

I consider that most, but perhaps not all, individual members of all three super denominations are, in fact, Christians. Pride, heresy, and misunderstandings abound, but I personally believe that the ultimate Trinitarian beliefs of all of these kinds of Christians are a testament to the Power of Christ, Who has little trouble reaching through our manufactured discontents. His Truth, to the majority of the faithful, cannot be dimmed. 

However, some of the heresies and a large dose of a certain American faux Christianity lend themselves well to ecclesiastical or theological fantasy. And that fantasy goes hand-in-hand with America’s peculiar political jingoism, “us” against “them,” we’re better, they’re wrong, “freedom fries,” etc. Come to think of it, dysgenically low IQs and reading levels don’t help either.

Back to Wilson’s letter, one of the few things it almost got right is the connection between the Moscow Patriarchy and the Russian government. The current arrangement is a continuation of a standoff agreement that allowed an “official” Church to retain some of its cultural heritage and influence in the face of early atheistic Communism in the U.S.S.R. That link, along with a healthy contingent of Orthodox Russians who fled underground or abroad, preserved Christianity for the duration, until the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. Resilience has lately turned into resurgence, praise be to God. The Bride of Christ is triumphing over worldly domination in Russia.

Perhaps, if any Yankee investigation is honest, it will conclude that something similar might be able to preserve a remnant of Christian civilization in whatever becomes of America. After all, the Lord works in mysterious ways. And He sometimes uses, in His works, strange fellows, letters, and investigations.

DEO VINDICE!