Having gone through a whole bunch of photographs from the embattled Ukraine, which I found in Der Spiegel today, I was surprised by so many of them showing Orthodox priests praying in the no-man’s stretch between the protesters and the police. Of the three parties, it is the priests who are most likely to gain from the conflict, I reckon. And it is the priests who are most likely to gain from any other conflict anywhere else around the globe. Bewildered, so many will join them sooner or later. All that the priests need to do in the meanwhile is to keep praying in the no-man’s stretch between the protesters and the police. It is their stretch, too. And they know it. Annoyed as I am with the priests, I cannot but appreciate their rôle in comforting the bewildered. For it is not their deviousness that is at the bottom of so many conflicts that shake today’s world, but the inherent inability of the bewildered to see a way forward. God in so many guises awaits them by mere default. Stupidity, ignorance, and lack of vision are squarely with the bewildered—their eternal burden, as it were. And the priests are only to their rescue.