Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, had to know which particular snippet from a recent interview he gave on state TV in the country would rocket around the web. Maybe he didn’t.
Nevertheless, the church leader went on a little bit of a rant about smartphones during his interview and blasted our fixation on these devices as heralding the arrival of something terrible. No, not gadget addiction. Not broken lives. Smartphones, he promised, are paving the way for the antichrist.
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Russian church leader: Smartphones are laying groundwork for the Antichrist originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 20:39:05 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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