Chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Vladimir Legoyda. Archival photoMOSCOW, February 1Scientific progress must be ethically assessed so that it does not become a totalitarian cult, Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, believes in an interview with RIA Novosti. start worrying when progress or its self-appointed speakers begin to promise us what the leaders of dictatorial regimes promised in the last century: heaven on earth. Or immortality. Usually, after such promises, all those who disagree with paradise are sent to a concentration camp, «he told the agency. technological progress is not a totalitarian religious cult, and it should be constantly critically analyzed from the point of view of ethics, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) believes. >Legoida commented on believers' concerns about rapid digitalization
