“Balance and harmony are important in everything, and the distorted idea of liberalism that has been imposed through various funding streams in different countries over the years is lamentable,” the Speaker of Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, has stated.

According to him, a sobering up is taking place in the world today, brought about primarily by the change of administration in the United States and the new policy of the new administration, which has completely shut off funding for pseudo-ideologies.

“Nothing should be fetishised, including speech, which can be an even more powerful weapon, a weapon of slow action against humanity. Georgia is a prime example of this. When we see that we were practically laboratory animals, when hatred, abuse, and verbal assault against us were not merely tolerated but welcomed, this continues to this day from certain European ambassadors and European donor organisations. We see that people who threatened others with bullets to the forehead were funded from the Brussels budget. We saw people who accosted and cursed a woman, accompanied by her children. Various European embassies and ambassadors pamper these individuals with lavish funding from Brussels. This is a clear example of us being used as laboratory subjects, testing how we might turn on one another, how conflict could be instigated among us.

The Patriarch highlights this precisely: everyone must recognise that, under the pretext of freedom of speech, they have clandestinely introduced the most evil and deadly weapon, one that destroys not only the body but also the soul, including that of those who wield it. Therefore, it is important that we listen not to the purveyors of pseudo-ideology, to Brussels and its funded NGOs, but that we listen to that which has guided us for 1,700 years already, our Church and its word,” declared Shalva Papuashvili.

The Christmas Epistle of His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II, states that the malicious misuse of freedom of speech is one of the greatest tests. Only those who walk the path of truth towards the Lord and embody forgiveness will be able to overcome it.