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Russian Internet personalities about their attitude towards religion

We continue to publish the opinions of famous Runet figures about their attitude to religion. Following the five IT industry startups , people working in the field of PR and media told TJournal about their experiences.

Georgy Lobushkin, press secretary of VKontakte

I am agnostic. The answer to the question “Does God exist?” I always try to find, paradoxically, in the “General Theory of Relativity”, communities like “Atheist”, scientific programs on National Geographic. In other words, the question of faith in God for me is a question of faith in the Creator. It is noteworthy, but I did not find a clear answer that there is no God. Let's wait for news from CERN.

If we talk about Faith as a spiritual core, then I believe in karma. You need to return more to the Universe than it gives you, then you will always have positive karma. You can do a great job, create great products, or just save the world every day - the Universe is kind. It is important that your thoughts are pure.

Zlata Nikolaeva, communications editor of the united company "Afisha-Rambler-SUP"

I believe in God and I am Orthodox. Previously, I didn’t attach any importance to religion, brushing it off with everyone’s favorite excuse: “my faith is in my soul, and I don’t need intermediaries in the form of the church and priests.” But a couple of years ago—yes, exactly at the time when all these scandals with the Russian Orthodox Church began—I realized that religion is important. For the first time, it seems, in 10 years, I put on a cross, went to church not just to look, and so on. I’m gradually returning to my roots, in short, my grandmother would be pleased with me.

Ochir Mandzhikov, director of public relations at Yandex

I'm not a religious person.

Egor Danilov, creator of the Moments messenger

For me, religion is an integral part of culture. You can treat it differently, but there is no other force in the world that can push people to both the most terrible and the most beautiful actions.

Anton Merkurov, Internet expert

In my relationship with religion, I have two stories. Firstly, religiosity does not come from a good life. That is, something bad must happen first for a person to go to G-d. It scares. Secondly, this is an amazing layer of social norms of behavior in a given situation, formulated thousands of years ago, still working today and not undergone significant changes. This cannot be explained by anything other than a miracle. And this miracle keeps humanity within limits and provides answers to all sorts of questions to this day. Quite successfully. I am not religious, but I devote a lot of time to studying sacred works. The Bible, Torah, Koran or, for example, the Mahabharata, coexist perfectly both in the Kindle and in the head. And I think studying this is very important. Again, there are many answers that have been tested for thousands of years.

It is clear that some religions are closer to me, some less. Some of the figures do not produce emotions, others admire, like John Paul II, who was able to make Catholicism modern and understandable. Perhaps best of all, Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa formulated: “I believe that man created God, and religion believes that God created man.”

Vladislav Tsyplukhin, blogger

I do not undertake to discuss the topic of religion, because I have read too little on this topic. However, I do not consider myself a religious person. Intuitively, religion seems to me to be the most successful attempt in history to organize the masses. Having visited Jerusalem and seen how religious people fight and are even ready to kill each other for sacred relics, I was only convinced of this.

I believe that actions determine fate—that’s enough for me for now.

Igor Belkin, main cat of Lenta.ru

I'm a Christian. Historically, it was Orthodox, but, let’s say, taking into account modern realities, it is wrong. Jokes on religious topics, dancing in the temple and Pastafarianism do not make me have a terrible desire to write kilobytes of text on the Internet on the topic “PLANT!

From the Gospel and accompanying literature, I learned two basic principles that guide the God I believe in: forgiveness and non-covetousness. Which, again, is difficult to reconcile with the Russian Orthodox Church in its most visible manifestations.

I am not a particularly pious person: I go to church very rarely and I rarely think about God - mainly in moments of acute emotional upheaval, both good and bad. Well, I think that Christianity, like many other religions, was originally a great idea, but over the years it has mutated into something that I don’t particularly like to talk about.

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