Romeo. (to Juliet)
When an unworthy hand rudely
I desecrated the holy altar - forgive me.
Like two humble pilgrims, lips
With a kiss they can sweep away the trace of sin .
Juliet. Dear pilgrim, you are too strict
To your hand: only piety in it.
Saints have hands: they can, it’s true,
Touch the pilgrim with your hand.
Romeo. Is the mouth given to saints and pilgrims?
Juliet. Yes, for prayer, good pilgrim.
Romeo. Holy! So let my lips
Cling to yours - don’t be unforgiving.
Juliet. Without moving, the saints listen to us.
Romeo. Motionlessly give an answer to my prayers . (Kisses her.)
Your lips remove all sin from mine.
Juliet. So did my lips accept your sin?
Romeo. My sin... Oh, your reproach confuses me!
Give back my sin.
Juliet. The guilt has been removed from you.
W. Sheskpir, “Romeo and Juliet” (translated by T.L. Shchepkina-Kupernik)
It will soon be unsafe to stage Romeo and Juliet, what if someone sees in this scene an insult to religious feelings and a public humiliation of the rituals of the Catholic Church: here, after all, the boy and girl are blaspheming, comparing their fornication with the ceremony of veneration of holy relics. It would be safe to remove this work from the list of school literature.
“The Stone Guest” - there, the inveterate sinner Don Guan, pretending to be a monk, insults the religious feelings of the grieving Catholic Dona Anna. Anyone who does not read to the end or does not watch it can easily see in this scene a mockery of a special clergyman and the sacrament of confession.
It’s better to immediately push Pushkin into the second row, before a sentence is imposed for storing the “Gavriliada”. And in general, no matter what his work is, it is complete blasphemy against different religions: “The Prophet”, “Imitation of the Koran”, “...Christ is risen, my Rebecca”, etc.
And Blok with his “Twelve”, and Lermontov with “The Demon”, and Bulgakov with “The Master and Margarita”, and Dostoevsky with “The Grand Inquisitor” are disgusting minions of the evil one. It’s good that Leo Tolstoy was “clarified” in time; there is a precedent in case someone doesn’t like, for example, “Father Sergius.”
Throw out “The Feast of St. Jorgen” and the recording of Sergei Obraztsov’s play “The Divine Comedy” from the Gosfilmfond, and at the same time remove from the libraries the album of cartoons by Jean Effel “The Creation of the World.”
In museums, by the way, it’s also time to revise: “Tea drinking in Mytishchi, near Moscow”, “Rural religious procession at Easter”, “Refusal of confession” - this is a direct insult to the Russian Orthodox Church! Should I close the matting or is it better to go straight into the oven?
Yes, and cosmonauts should be prohibited from watching “White Sun of the Desert”: in it, Petrukha constantly incites the married Muslim woman Gulchatai to break the rules of decency. And all these wanderings of Comrade Sukhov with someone else’s harem are a complete mockery of the feelings and customs of the faithful.
From The Diamond Arm, cut the scene with walking on water and panties on a stick; from “Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession” - the phrase “This is what the life-giving cross does!”
It’s still unclear about the removal of Father Fyodor Vostrikov’s hair from “12 Chairs,” but it’s better not to risk it.
And for watching the film “The Last Temptation of Christ” and listening to the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar” you generally get a prison sentence. For there is not only the hoof of the devil, but also the hand of the insidious State Department.