As EU folds Romania in next year, this population will be considered its most religious member. I hear intellectuals are seen again in churches. I'm generally happy about that. Of course mostly because I generally believe that when pulled out of the clenched hands of conservatives, and the grip of those many thirsty for some simple order coming from anywhere above, religious discourse has a wealth of poetry and concepts about the varieties of life experience. The orthodox confession in particular, has an anarchist streak (both libertarian/anachorite and collectivist/cenobite) that often makes me smile--but maybe it's only me, despite, among other pitfalls, the stone faces of apolitical but perceptive athonite monks. Of course the feeling of continuous danger for the faith/nation/etc. combined with the political games of those too close to power (and god) for anyone's good, are promoting the most conservative voices, which deepens the rift between a discourse of well tempered wonder and imagination rooted in living experience, i.e. religion/spirituality, and the current material world, which has generally little time for thinking other possible worlds, paradises or hells, adapted to its times.