Duma is holier than the Pope

The Sreda survey can hardly be called representative: only a little more than 300 respondents from 12 Moscow churches, but it gives some picture of what is happening.

66% of Moscow church parishioners surveyed answered in the affirmative when asked whether anything could offend their religious feelings. At the same time, people under the age of 30 and the least affluent among those surveyed are more likely to say that their feelings can be offended, but cannot explain exactly how. 22% of respondents say that nothing can offend their religious feelings. These are the results of the Wednesday poll on Palm Sunday (April 28, 2013).

43% of respondents believe that there is no need to punish for insulting religious feelings at all. Those who support punishment put “correctional labor” first (16%). Second place is shared by the options “fine” and “court of God” - 8% each. This is followed by “imprisonment” (4%) and “probation” (3%). Two respondents chose the option “God will forgive.”

First of all, negative attitudes, statements and actions “against Christianity and Orthodoxy” are offensive to religious feelings (30%). These include: “disrespectful attitude towards icons, behavior in the temple”, “when they speak badly about the Church and priests”, “desecration of shrines”, “sacrilege, blasphemy”, “blasphemy against God”, “negative attitude towards Christianity, the Bible, Christ " For every tenth parishioner, “otherness” and “non-Orthodoxy” can be offensive.