 In the early 1990s, Amfilohije and Bishop Vasilije Kačavenda deepened religious and ethnic divisions during the Yugoslav wars and alleged that a global conspiracy existed against the SOC.Amfilohije stated that the "natural space" of the Serbs lay with the Orthodox East and that they needed to fight the Protestant and Catholic West and also Islam, as according to him "without death there will be no resurrection".Amfilohije became a prominent contributor to debates regarding identity and sovereignty issues of Montenegro.