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# Not only America but England too is turning its gaze to Orthodoxy, which means the programme to destroy the Christian religion in the Anglo-Saxon world has misfired
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- Published: 2025-08-23T16:06:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:59.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, London, Observations, New York, Society

Remember the episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer and Bart become Catholics, and Marge frets that they will make merry in the Catholic heaven with Jesus while she is bored on the cricket pitch of the Protestant one, and Bart retorts: "Sorry, Mum, this is the Catholic church, women don't run things here"?

Those who follow social trends in the USA cannot have failed to notice that the liberal orientation of most Protestant religious communities in the United States, their blind adherence to the much-lamented "woke" culture, the appearance of all manner of gender-neutral deacons, their loyalty to sexualised cults and extremist political movements and, above all, their refusal to defend the traditional family and the truly oppressed, have all led to a marked surge of conversions among believing Americans to more traditional religions, that is, to Catholicism, but especially to Orthodoxy.

Naturally, the mass media, which impose on society an agenda directly opposed to Christian values, cover this phenomenon from a critical standpoint and for the most part portray the newly converted as radical conservatives and madmen.

As of 2020 there were about 750,000 practising Orthodox Christians in America, and precisely over the previous five years a strong trend towards a growing number of converts has been observed. In all, between two and six million Americans consider themselves Orthodox, though of course many of them are of Greek, Russian or Balkan descent. Most of the converts are former evangelicals or Catholics who have become disillusioned with American society and their own churches. In some churches the number of new parishioners reaches 80% within five to seven years.

Globalism, as the new world religion, demands the renunciation of one's roots, constantly introduces new absurd norms and brings chaos into the familiar picture of the world, in which in the end we see only quicksand swallowing up traditions. Against this unsteady ground Orthodoxy looks like a thousand-year-old rock to which one may cling in search of calm, peace and order.

One may call these people traditionalists, anti-wokes or opponents of progress, but it is obvious that the shares of the new liberal religion in America, for all the investment from outside, are beginning a gradual decline. Those who turn to Orthodoxy notice that everything America has achieved, and everything that once made people admire and imitate it, was nonetheless built upon those very Christian ideological foundations which are now collapsing under the weight of the media industry and mainstream social narratives. Orthodox blogs and podcasts gain enormous viewing figures in the States, and their main theme boils down, in essence, to a critique of American culture and a deep concern over the diminishing role of religion in public consciousness.

Having lost their footing in their own churches, people who identify with the image and values of the founding fathers of the American nation are turning to another tradition, in essence a more conservative one. Meanwhile the elites, through the media they control, instil the postulate that the conversion of Americans to pre-Protestant Christianity will lead not merely to extreme nationalism but will place society a single step from "domestic terrorism".

The rapidly changing landscape of values troubles not only Americans but the English as well. Quite recently there was news of an entire parish going over to Orthodoxy. It turns out that the English, too, in their spiritual searching are increasingly turning to the Orthodox Church.

And if in the USA the process by which a single Protestant movement has disintegrated into dozens of denominations, at times upholding principles directly contrary to Christian ones, has made people take a closer look at Orthodoxy, then in England we have even seen cases of people being prosecuted for reading the Bible in the street, so that there the doors of Orthodox churches are opened by an ever more plainly emerging sense that the Western church is nearing its fall. In both cases Orthodoxy becomes a way out precisely as the tradition least exposed to the influence of contemporary fashions and trendy currents