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Metropolitan Warns of the "Dangers of Secularism" and Calls for Closer Ties with Other Faiths
Leocadio Matías Arturo Renato Arriola, Metropolitan of Drania wrote: «We Believe in One Omnipotent Deity, the Light, the Creator of All and Everything that was, is and will be.
We believe that the Light is purely good and deserving of our worship and reverence.
We believe the Light to have a Divine Plan and that it is the responsibility of all Members and Officials of Its Church to help advance this plan by spreading the Light to all peoples and nations.
We Believe in One Universal Church whose Divine mission is to spread the Light to and unify all peoples. We believe that all Members of the Church are to do their best to emulate the Light and to show Love and kindness to all people.»
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Brothers and Sisters, we in the Universal Church believe in the essential unity of all mankind through acceptance of the Omnipotent Light. We believe that truly moral behaviour is only possible when one acts in accordance with the Light's plan. It's not impossible, as a Horsian or a Quaziahite, to act in accordance with the principles of the Light without ever have read the holy Credes or even having rejected them in favour of another scripture. But secularism, which denies the essential unity of mankind with his spiritual kin, is not compatible with the Light's plan. Thus, secular regimes, however well justified in the eyes of man always go astray. Whether collectivistic, as in Hulstira and Gao-Soto, or individualistic, as in Dolgava, the ideologies of secularism and the worship of secular concepts has resulted in the most vile atrocities against human dignity. It is therefore most disturbing to that so many politicians, who I shall not name, find Dranland's Universalist heritage to be something something suspect or reprehensible. The only principle sacred in Dranland today, it seems, is the idea that Dranland is somehow innately without any faith, heritage or identity beyond the fact that it is "tolerant". Though this may sound flattering, what this really means is that our contemporary rulers consider Dranland as nothing more than the sum total of the secular ideologies which are temporarily in fashion. Yet secular ideologies come and go, and one day we may that it is the ideological screeds of the Jalalistas that are in fashion. Without the hard rock of our revealed faith, our connection to the eternal will, we Dranianos will be lost. So many of our people have turned from the faith and sought answers in secular ideologies, and for a while it was good. Yet now the Secularisers dream of a tolerant, perfect and generic nation is unravelling before our eyes. Thousands of Dranish people, who once thought all they needed was a credit card and a vote, are seeking solace in the faith of their ancestors.
Secularism has proven dangerous and empty, and we hope that we can engage the Selucian Patriarchal Church, the Ehudi Church of Elyon, the Queranz Church, the Abadi Church, the Felinists and many other of the worlds faith in a constructive dialogue about the best means to restore mankinds essential union with the spiritual and rescue his soul from the pitfalls of secluar ideologies.
