Report of the Head of the Don Metropolis at the plenary session of the XXXI Dimitrievsky educational readingstranslated

Your Eminences and Graces! Dear representatives of government authorities, the scientific and pedagogical community! All-honorable fathers, dear brothers and sisters!

The theme of the Readings chosen this year concerns almost every family. The fact is that we already live in conditions where a child turns to a neural network for an answer before he has time to ask a question to a teacher or parents.

Adults, in turn, also trust digital assistants with more and more decisions. Technologies are included in education, medicine, creativity, and human communication. And along with new opportunities, an old question arises: what is happening to us today? What to do in the current conditions?

In order to correctly answer these questions, it is necessary to proceed from an understanding of man in terms of eternity, that is, from a religious concept of man.

In fact, I don’t even know any other approach. After all, if we do not start from the category of eternity, then how can we talk about a person from the position of modernity, today, whose experience is still being formed? It is on the answer, based on the understanding of man in terms of eternity, that what kind of future we will build depends.

Holy Scripture says:...