The Russian Orthodox Church is expected to bar its priests from blessing weapons of mass destruction and other large weaponry.

Russia’s Church has been increasingly close with the government and the military, which has incorporated priests into the armed forces as military chaplains and used men of the cloth to propagate patriotism.

In the Russian Orthodox tradition, a priest can give a blessing to a believer or bless a home or a ship. In recent years, however, priests have been invited to say a prayer and splash holy water on Russia’s newest types of deadly weapons, prompting outrage among some members of the church who oppose the practice.

Photos of Russian priests, dressed in long, black cassocks, splashing holy water with a whisk on tanks and missiles have become internet memes.

An ad-hoc commission set up to look into the issue published their draft report late on Monday, which recommends barring priests from giving their blessings to large weaponry.