Ombudsman: Ukrainians go to UOC churches due to "linguistic schizophrenia"

Taras Kremin. Photo: life.pravda

Language Ombudsman Taras Kremin stated that the simultaneous use of multiple languages without prioritizing Ukrainian leads to "linguistic schizophrenia." In an interview with Ukrainian Pravda, Kremin explained that this "phenomenon" is why people continue to attend shrines of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

"This bilingualism results in a phenomenon in sociolinguistics known as linguistic schizophrenia, where the simultaneous use of multiple languages without a clear prioritization of Ukrainian as the state language leads to schizophrenia in behavior and attitudes toward national interests," Kremin asserted.

For this reason, he believes that "a portion of citizens continues to attend a temple associated with the Russian Orthodox Church."

As previously reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), thousands of believers honored the memory of the Synaxis of Volyn Saints in Lutsk.

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