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April 23, 2009 Viktor Shenderovich

Prevent. This text contains considerations that may seem insulting for a certain part of orthodox citizens who have increased sensitivity to issues of faith - just like the text that will be discussed below, seemed offensive to me, which has increased sensitivity to common sense issues. Nobody warned me that my feelings would be offended - I am a symmetrical opportunity, so I ask for orthodox citizens who have increased sensitivity to the issues of faith, not to read this place, so as not to accidentally be offended.

To begin with - the message of the RIA Novosti portal:

“Some modern studies already indicate the miraculous nature of the phenomenon of fertile fire,” said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Synodal Department for the relationship of the Church and Society. "For many, it is obvious that fire is fed according to the prayers of believers in a special way." According to him, the physical nature of this phenomenon may "need an additional study." “Some scientists are now exploring this nature and come to very interesting conclusions. In Runet, an article was recently published regarding the physical nature of this phenomenon, indicating that this phenomenon is unusual, wonderful, ”the head of the synodal department stated ..."

They sailed.

About faith - not a word. Faith does not require evidence, and any attempt to enter into a polemic on this field is tactless. Vera - she is faith!

The divine origin of the blessed fire and the inexhaustible oil of Hanuki; sudden, at the age of forty, at one night, comprehension of the letter by the prophet Mohammed; The soul of the vuduist, living in his nails and hair after death ... Investigative experiments are inappropriate here. Simply - some believe in this, others in another, and the fifths are generally in communism! Grandma, walking under the portrait of Stalin, does not need to read Solzhenitsyn aloud: she will not hear the arguments, even if not deaf. She believes ...

But if the grandmother begins to insist on a public polemic, if a conversation crawls out of the field of faith in the open spaces of historical science, then let her grandmother are not offended: she has to hear a lot of unpleasant.

Let not be offended by Mr. Chaplin from the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, which undertook to put a religious Vanka on a scientific field-no one pulled him by the tongue.

What kind of publication in Runet, Mr. Archpriest? Runet in the sense of physics, there are no words, an authoritative source, this is not a prove with oak; The largest physics specialists in RuNet live, but give a reference!

What kind of scientists are currently exploring the physical nature of the fertile fire? Surnames, ply-from ... In what way do they explore it? Theoretically, experimentally? What will be the “additional study” in which an acute need has opened you? In what kind of “special way” is currently served, according to the prayers of believers, the Blessed Fire? Describe the technology - make your contribution to the subject "Physics of combustion and explosion" ...

So far, only one old version comes to mind, which, however, can save funds allocated for additional studies of the divine nature of the fertile fire. Although this, rather, is already from the field of chemistry, including in the broad sense of the word ... In 1854, the sovereign Nikolai Pavlovich, when he visited the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, showed the so-called A miracle of myrrh -thief heads. The sovereign was a believer, but practical: he looked at his heads, listened to the story of a monk-excursor, and then asked him: “Tell me better when the last time you poured oil into this skull?” “On Friday, your Imperial Majesty,” answered an honest one, not from evil, a naughty monk.

In a special way, according to the prayers of believers ...

Once again: I am not against faith. This case is private, intimate, not subject to discussion. I am against Easter to me and the entire population of my unfortunate country additionally composting the head of a science -shaped garbage through the RIA Novosti agency.

“Christ is risen” - “Allah Akbar” - “Hare Krishna” - “Shabat Shalom” - “Lenin alive” ... for each his own, and if only to health! Interior clubs are designed to unite people, but they should not climb into neighboring territories. As in an old joke about an emigrant selling seeds on the steps of the Exchange on Wall Street. "I have an agreement with them: they do not trade in seeds, I do not play on the exchange ..."

If, despite the warning, this text (in some miraculous way) will reach the eyes of Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, then I have a similar proposal to him. Let's agree to live so as not to upset each other. For example: I will refrain from comments about the origin of the fertile fire, and you will not talk at press conferences about the physical nature of this miracle ...

And everyone will be fine.