The Patriarch said that it is sinful to call the QR code the “seal of the Antichrist”

Arguments that vaccination and the appropriation of QR codes are the "seal of the Antichrist" are "inappropriate and sinful," said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', speaking at the annual diocesan meeting in Moscow.

“I must say that it is inappropriate and sinful to talk about vaccination or about the appropriation of a QR code in connection with it, as if about the “seal of the Antichrist,” the patriarch said.

He explained that such reasoning leads people away from understanding “that enslavement to the Antichrist consists in refusing to be faithful to the Lord in one’s deeds, words, in refusing to stay in the church,” and the so-called seal is only an external “visible expression of the apostasy that has taken place.”

According to him, sowing panic is also a sin. At the same time, the patriarch expressed concern over the use of QR codes. However, according to him, it is not the vaccination itself and certificates that cause concern, but how such technologies can be used in the future.