“Everyone should understand that in the name of freedom of speech, the most malevolent and lethal weapon has been smuggled into our country, the language of hatred, which destroys not only the body but also the human soul, including the soul of the person wielding this weapon,” stated Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia.

According to him, nothing should be fetishised, not even words, which can become an even more potent weapon, a slow-acting weapon that harms individuals over time.

“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 experimental 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.