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(19,429 posts) Sat Jun 8, 2013, 03:10 PM Jun 2013

'Monks - Abstain From Online Sin' Says Russian Church Leader

MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks to turn their backs on the Internet, in order to protect themselves from online temptations, the Russian media reported on Saturday.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia reportedly described the Internet as a hotbed of sin and temptation, and said that monks who forsake worldly pleasures in real life should do likewise on the Internet.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130608/181574833/Monks---Abstain-From-Online-Sin-Says-Russian-Church-Leader.html

And it also keeps the NSA from intercepting your communications.