Mafusailov century

Dear editors!

In March, the III International Scientific and Theological Conference “God is the Mir” was held, the organizers of which were the Minsk and Sretensky Spiritual Academy. This conference was attended not only by theologians, but also by scientists, one of the speakers was the director of the Institute of General Genetics named after N. I. Vavilov RAS, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Kudryavtsev.

Alexander Kudryavtsev spoke about his vision of the world. He stated, in particular, that a harmonious and perfect universe created by God in the process of creation fell into “smoldering” due to the fall of people. Naturally, this also affected the people themselves: if in the past, “to the flood”, the life expectancy of people reached 900 years, now people live an order of magnitude less than Mafusail, Adam or Noah.

The director of Jogen explained: if we assume that life expectancy is associated with overall health, and general health is associated with layering of nature, you can see what the rate of damage to human nature is. He also formulated his position with relatively harmful mutations: “ These mutations of geneticists find daily when they work with patients ... Atext scientists will tell you that this is actually radiation, these are pollution, these are all mutagenic effects. Nevertheless, my personal belief that such destruction is nevertheless initiated by original sin, it is aggravated by sin of tribal, well, personal too. And in this regard it becomes clear, at least, the statement that children are responsible for the sins of their fathers before the seventh knee. But this is true. The gene damaged by the mutation, if we assume that sin causes genetic mutations, cannot recover on its own. Well, perhaps a miracle of God. But it can be replaced by a healthy gene received from another, healthy parent, from a kind in which this gene was not damaged . ”

The scientific community, of course, did not leave such passages unnoticed. There were calls to pay attention to this case of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the fight against pseudoscience - and this is against the backdrop of the discussion about the fate of this commission and whether they want to close it or simply retort some expert advice - statements that such a director for a solid academic institute is simply a shame. Finally, the conversations went that it has become more difficult to fight with pseudoscience in recent years.

I, as a person who was born and raised in the USSR, I do not believe in priestly fairy tales and, of course, I just laugh when I hear this kind of statement. However, you need to be able to see the other side of the coin. As I already wrote, I see significant social benefits from religion. We all know the classic quote from Karl Marx: "Religion is an opium for the people." We at one time perceived the word “opium” as a synonym for the words “dope”, but such an interpretation is not the only possible. Marx himself borrowed his definition from the English Christian socialist Charles Kingsley, who wrote: “ We used the Bible, as if it were a constable reference or as a dose of opium, which calms the overloaded pack animal - to maintain order among the poor .” And here another important point is emphasized: religion is a kind of sedative, helping to remain calm among the oppressed classes.

Like Kingsley, we now live under capitalism, and the task of maintaining social stability, of course, requires not only the presence of powerful law enforcement protection authorities, but, so to speak, internal incentives for obedience. After all, seriously working, drinking, not too educated masses in difficult circumstances can serve as a combustible material for those foreign forces that are happy to rekindle the fire of color revolutions in Russia. Anyway, the masses of the paddles on faith in all sorts of nonsense like astrology, magic, fortuneteller and clairvoyants. Therefore, it is useful to give such people a solid spiritual support that will allow them to accept the severity of the earthly life in return for the promise of eternal life. And, of course, it is important that such a spiritual support is given not to some destructive cults, not religious denominations that are under the control of the Washington Regional Committee, but our, relatives and proven church organizations that occupy a clear and verified socio-political position.

Based on this, I would urge you, my dear unbelieving colleagues, with greater tolerance to be those figures of science, who sometimes believe so much that they begin to carry obvious nonsense. Maybe they make pseudoscientific allegations, but still work on the spiritual nourishment of the broad masses. And, quite possibly, the socio-political benefit from their protruding position outweighs the harm from the public violation of scientific truths. I do not presume to say this with all certainty, but who knows, dear colleagues, who knows ...

Your Ivan Ekonomov