Goga Khaindrava on Metropolitan Iob's statements: "I am a member of the Georgian Church and a parishioner, so I will never allow myself to comment on a metropolitan's sermon. But when a metropolitan enters the political field and makes political statements, it is no longer a sermon. Such a statement requires, at the very least, very strong arguments; otherwise it is slander"

"I am a member of the Georgian Church and a parishioner, so I will never allow myself to comment on a metropolitan's sermon. But when a metropolitan enters the political field and makes political statements, it is no longer a sermon. Such a statement requires, at the very least, very strong arguments; otherwise it is slander." That is what film director Goga Khaindrava said when speaking about Metropolitan Iob's sermon.