- Thank you, Alexei Ilyich, I want to thank you live on our air and present you with these roses. Thank you for being there and, as I said at the beginning, for being us, because my childhood dream was realized: to turn on the TV and hear from there that there is a God...

– Thank you, Father Dimitry. May God help you in your work, because your work is very difficult. I imagine it a little... Difficult from different angles, which I will not voice today. But I think that if you try to do all this in the name of God and for the benefit of the Church, then the Lord will help you.

– Thank you, Alexei Ilyich, thank you, dear viewers. We apologize that the professor was asked only a small part of your questions. We will keep them all until the next meeting, and when the next meeting takes place, Alexei Ilyich and I will agree and we will certainly notify you about it. Thank you, and all the best.

 December 8, 2010 (hosted by Sergey Kirillov)

–Hello! My name is Sergey Kirillov, and today in the studio of the Soyuz TV channel in St. Andrew's Monastery in Moscow I have my second meeting with Professor Alexei Ilyich Osipov of the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary.

Hello, Alexey Ilyich!

–Hello!

– Dear friends, after the first broadcast with Alexei Ilyich, which took place on June 9, we have been receiving and continue to receive your questions addressed to the professor for a long time. In total, there are several hundred of them. It is simply physically impossible to ask Alexei Ilyich all of them, so for today's meeting we have chosen the most relevant ones for many of our viewers.

You can send your questions to the channel's e-mail or transmit them by phone. Perhaps the answers to them will be heard in our future meetings.

Alexei Ilyich, allow me to begin our conversation with a question that is of concern, and even more so, to a significant number of Christians both in our Church and in other Local Churches. This is the problem of globalization and, as one of its aspects, the problem of digital identification of citizens. Somehow it has become habitual to ridicule those who are afraid of barcodes, INN, three sixes – those who consider these phenomena to be the "seal of the Antichrist", but the problem is actually much deeper and more serious. It is clear that the TIN is not the "seal of the Antichrist", but all these are all kinds of chips, GLONASS systems, etc. – small bricks in building a system of control over people. So totalitarian that Stalin could not even dream of it! The GLONASS satellite system, for example, is able to determine the location of a person with an accuracy of up to a meter, and the biochips currently being developed are not only able to control a person, but also to influence his behavior! And this is not the invention of the "Penza recluses", but reality. What the construction of such a system, such an "electronic concentration camp" leads to, in whose power it will be as a result and how it will be used – is described in the revelation of John the Theologian. Why are any conversations on this topic ridiculed, and people are recorded as "sectarians from Orthodoxy"? Is it really not a threat? Is it possible to somehow resist the construction of this anti-Christian system? In general, if possible, in detail, perhaps even in the form of a micro-lecture, please explain to our viewers the Christian attitude to digital identification and electronic control. Is everything so harmless?

– We are now in a chess situation, which is called a stalemate: when the king has nowhere to go. Scientific and technological progress is now developing precisely in the direction that should lead to an absolutely totalitarian regime on a world scale. And it is absolutely impossible to avoid it. Because this is the general principle of development. This, in the final analysis, is the invisible goal towards which our humanity's scientific and technological progress is leading. Therefore, globalization is a natural process. How can it be evaluated from a Christian point of view? Since the logic of scientific and technological development is exactly the same as I have said, there is no doubt about it, there can be only one Christian attitude towards it: a spiritual and moral rejection of all the negative aspects that are associated with this development. You have just pointed to the achievement of technology, when a person can be found anywhere in the world, learn many details, you can listen to everything, you can see everything. Perhaps they will soon come to the point where they will learn to read thoughts... This makes Christians all the more attentive to themselves. What is our task? Do not sin against one's conscience, the one that is filled with God's commandments. I am somewhat surprised by these fears that everyone will know about me. Okay, you should know. And what am I afraid of? In addition, (there is a lot of talk about this now) special agencies have been following people throughout history. Now these observations of special agencies on each citizen have reached very high degrees. Therefore, the question arises: what is better for us? So that we are watched openly and know that our every step is being watched? Or that we don't know it, but our every step would be seen in the same way and our every word would be listened to in the same way? Of course, it is better to know than to do stupid things in ignorance, which I myself will not be happy about later.

I believe that, in the end, we should not be afraid of what will inevitably come, but we should be afraid of death. No, Christians should not be afraid of death – they should remember it and prepare for it. We must apply the same rule to this phenomenon. Yes, there will be globalization, there will be universal control. Under the rule of the Antichrist, everyone will be under complete control – and not only control, but, unfortunately, will also determine our behavior, our way of thinking. Therefore, now more than ever, Christians need to take care of themselves. To take up not the external activity of the church order, but to take up one's soul, to protect one's conscience from unsuitable not only actions, but also thoughts: both in word and deed, to take up one's inner spiritual life. By the way, if Christians now decided to finally live as Christians, then, I think, the very process of globalization could change. Because we know: "Thou art God, working miracles."

–Thank you! Alexei Ilyich, I will not announce the names of the authors of the questions, because those of them that will be asked today in different variations were asked by many of our viewers. One of these questions is: how does God's Providence for a particular person relate to his independent choice? On the one hand, not a single hair will fall from the head, and on the other hand, you keep saying that a person determines many things by his own behavior.