God mentioning in the Russian anthem meets the requests of majority, thinks the chairman of the Church external ties department of Moscow patriarchy, metropolitan Kirill.
"I hope constitutional court decides in favour of these words remaining. If someone insists to remove the word God from the anthem we will have very strong back reaction", - said he during the press conference in Moscow on Tuesday commenting a reference to the court by the group of citizens who demanded to remove God from the Russian anthem.
"Taste of some narrow group will be satisfied" in case of removing God mentioning "but the majority will be discriminated". The group of atheists should begin not with reference to the court but with dialogue with society, said metropolitan.
"For some people mentioning of God in the anthem is a religious idea, for other people it is philosophic. But it is very important that there is some appeal to the highest authority in our anthem", - said the representative of Moscow patriarchy.
He added there is the word God in many countries? anthems. In these countries the church is detached from the state.
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