The following is a timely homily from His Eminence Metropolitan Augustinos Kantiotes. 

There are very few people who love the truth. Don't you see what happens each night with the radios and other media? This world is silly, it's a madhouse. The historian of the future—if anything of the truth is saved, with the delusion that circulates—will record it. Most of those people who own radio stations are huge deceivers. Each night they spread their nets, like a fisherman does. Inside are rogues, tricksters, impostors, liars...and they deceive the people and delude whoever they can. 

You see one person, that dumbo, sitting hours and hours listening to the radio. One person listens to Belgrade, another to Sofia, another to Tirana, another to Moscow, another to England. And he sits and is amazed and believes them. Ah, he says to you, they said it on the radio, on the TV, they wrote it in the newspaper! 

The way they are now, a person shouldn't even turn on a radio or open a newspaper. A person who doesn't concern himself with all that is much better off. Now everyone is falling into those nets and a spiritual delusion has occurred. The spirit of deception is like an illness—if you don't fight it in time, it gets worse and becomes contagious. 

For example, in Russia or somewhere else, a virus, a germ might appear. It multiplies very quickly and is spread through different means. That's how the flu becomes a world-wide thing. Just as the virus starts from one point and suddenly is transmitted amazingly quickly and nobody can stop it, it's the same with evil. It starts with a microscopic “germ" and spreads amazingly throughout humanity and threatens to catch everyone in its nets. You must fear the small sins, you must be careful of those, that's how evil begins. 

Source: “Christians of the Last Times", St. Augustine's Monastery, Florina, Greece 2022. pp. 156-157.