Say no to religion

“Russia needs protection from the onslaught of clericalism, which we have the opportunity to observe,” said Alexander Nikonov, chairman of the Atheist Society, at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday. He called for saying “no” to religion, which “is trying to make you stupid, make you dark, like this girl from St. Petersburg.” As Sergei Mamontov, the author of the biology textbook from which Masha Schreiber studied, said, even in Tsarist Russia, where Orthodoxy was the state religion, Darwin’s theory was taught everywhere in universities.