Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that moral sense shared by all nations should be laid in basis of legislation in every country of the modern world.
“No matter how different our countries, nations and establishments are, we all have moral sense, each of us has the voice of conscience, in other words, our differences are above basis, while moral sense is our true basis, it is truly universal characteristic of a human nature given to us from the birth. It is not constructed by someone who invented “true” universal values, and can correct them or “improve” in favour of certain political, ideological or even financial interests,” the patriarch said at the 137th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held in Petersburg.
The primate of the Russian Church attracted attention of the MPs to the fact that moral teaching of various religious traditions contains “co-incidence, appeal to human conscience,” Christians call it “the voice of God in our hearts.” “It is not by chance that we speak about “the golden rule of morality,” which in the language of Gospels say: do to others as you would have them do to you. To my point of view, a possibility of moral consensus for people is based on this profound experience,” Patriarch Kirill stressed.
