Kytheron Seraphim for the electronic identities of permanent members of the Armed Forcestranslated

Through excerpts of a letter from the Armed Forces, the Reverend Metropolitan of Kythira, Mr. Seraphim, answers the challenging question - a call for electronic IDs for permanent members of the Armed Forces. In his article, His Eminence lists questions, comments, but also the anxieties of officers and non-commissioned officers as recorded in their letter. Among others, they ask: "Does the Orthodox spiritual economy allow us to receive this document under the regime of official violence and coercion in order not to cut ourselves off from the collectivity of the Church and to protect our families, transferring the spiritual burden of responsibility to the Church Administration that tolerates it"?

The Metropolitan of Kythira, after analyzing in detail what is valid around the issue, urges "commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, etc., as well as the millions of Christian citizens, who have a crisis of conscience, after they have been sufficiently and comprehensively informed about this serious issue and make sure that their personal data, what is and what will be added, among which is predicted to be the anonymous number of the Holy Book of Revelation, will…