How to protect the feelings of non-believers?

If anyone doesn’t know, I inform you that last Sunday the first church from the “Program 200” was consecrated in the capital Brateevo. And “Program 200” is a program according to which as many as 200 churches will be built in Moscow in the near future. It is clear, solely by the grace of God and, apparently, at His own expense. Or maybe ours. Moreover, this charitable cause is supervised by Vladimir Iosifovich Resin (remember, the DeWitt Grande Complication watch is worth a million dollars). But in fact, Comrade Resin believes that not 200 churches should be built in Moscow, but 600. Cool! I wish I could count this splendor into clinics and kindergartens.

However, there is nothing to be surprised here. Recently, we have experienced a strong religious boom, and citizens suddenly wanted to have some kind of religious institution within walking distance. Some are a church, some are a mosque, and some are an entire synagogue. It is clear that Adventist Buddhists also do not want to remain on the sidelines. Only atheists remained uncommodified. Is this fair?!

Therefore, I think that it is necessary to immediately raise the issue of building two hundred, or even better, six hundred scientific and cultural institutions in Moscow (to please the Russian Orthodox Church, you can call them temples of science or something like that), and also necessarily within walking distance. I already have a church in my yard, now they are going to build a temple with a height of forty floors, but there is not a single decent museum. The cat actually made them cry in Moscow, which greatly offends my feelings as a non-believer.

I’ve already thought through the idea of ​​such museums. For example, there must be a science hall, where you should take children and tell them various useful things about physics, chemistry and the multiplication table. And also about the fact that a car moves along the road not by God’s will, but thanks to an internal combustion engine, that diseases are treated not with prayers, but with medicines, and Pushkin and Tolstoy are not some kind of blasphemers, but geniuses, of whom there are only a few in history .

There should also be a hall of the world history of obscurantism with portraits of outstanding inquisitors like Torquemada, instruments of torture and descriptions of terrible executions, lists of great thinkers destroyed by the church, records of falsified trials - medieval and modern, etc. A separate exhibition should be devoted to dense television programs about sorcerers , psychics, about flying saucers and other dregs that REN-TV, TNT and our other TV channels love so much. There will also be a place in the exhibition for the State Duma.

And I would also say there that proselytism - the desire to convert others to one's faith - has changed somewhat over the past centuries. And if in the Middle Ages a person who doubted the truth of another faith was dipped in boiling water for a while and his doubts immediately disappeared, but now it is not customary to drag people into Christianity by force. And our priests suddenly decided in the 21st century to enforce Orthodoxy with courts, police batons, crazy blasphemy laws and other techniques of medieval conquistadors. It doesn't work now.

I don’t believe that the people who once sent the first man into space suddenly, of their own free will, wanted to turn into some kind of God-bearer. Where and what should we carry? Money for the church store? We never managed to make a car out of a Zhiguli, and then, as compensation, we took the dusty idea of ​​the Third Rome out of the chest, right? Alas, this wood-burning locomotive has already left a century ago.

In the modern world, in which science has long replaced semi-literate priests and healers, religion can only have one meaning - moral. But that’s precisely what she doesn’t have; all that remains is servility, commerce and propaganda. And if children, instead of lectures about the structure of the universe, listen to the meaningless howls of priests, we will never have a future.