What is happening in Armenia is becoming quite dangerous. Is it possible that Prime Minister Pashinyan has started to become delusional?
Let us observe his recent actions carefully. He officially declares that those same very well-known benefactors of Holy Echmiadzin, who are in fact its most reliable defenders, aim to take the Mother See, along with its treasures, out of Armenia.
In another instance, Pashinyan, who promotes himself everywhere as a hero and defender of canons and rules of the Church, has in fact lived comfortably with his partner, contrary to the canons of the Armenian Church, for more than a quarter of a century, and, as a result, actually became the father of four children. Yet now, suddenly, he has decided to finally “legalize” his cohabitation and has announced that he is having according to state law (not church canons), a civil wedding. Evidently, all this is done in order to diminish the current appropriate, but perhaps unseemly, public conversations concerning him and his partner, as well as to justify his otherwise constitutionally illegitimate and absurd claim to be a so-called “reformer” of the church.
By now, the readers of these lines have certainly witnessed his recent interview with a group of reporters. Apparently running out of slanders against the Armenian Church leadership, this time he tried, invoking his “prime ministerial capacity,” to convince the journalists, as part of a long series of questions and answers, that he is well informed that the main goal and nefarious plan of those well-known diasporan Armenian personalities who are these days coming out with appeals in defense of our two-thousand-year-old Armenian Church, the Mother See and the Catholicos of All Armenians, is to take Holy Echmiadzin, along with its treasures, out of Armenia to an as yet unknown foreign destination – Vienna, Moscow, or who knows where else…
Naturally, when Prime Minister Pashinyan, apparently having no other choice left, is forced to stoop to this level and publicly utter such an evident blatant lie, furthermore trying to disguise it with a fake smile on his face, there is no other explanation left for sane and rational Armenians, except to conclude that either the man in question is in a worryingly mentally unbalanced state (considering also this sudden very much “delayed” decision, after more than 25 years, to marry legally) or he is under such heavy pressure from his Turkish and Azerbaijani patrons that he does not hesitate to fabricate such a clearly ridiculous lie.
With this lie, he evidently does not hesitate to even take the risk of losing the respect that a small number of Armenians may have for him as prime minister.
