The Eastern Orthodox Monks who were Persecuted for their Faith in the Holy Name
In a scripted documentary, Alex Gallagher tells the 1913 imiaslavie ('name glorification') story — Russian Orthodox monks on Mount Athos water-cannoned, bayoneted, and deported by their own church for believing the name of God is God himself — and argues the persecution was politics, class, and threatened clerical power rather than any real theological refutation, with the doctrine paralleling Hare Krishna teaching on the holy name.
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