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Pendulum

February 13, 2013 Viktor Shenderovich

"Here's Orthodoxy!" - This strict remark I read on the wall of the house opposite the Catholic Church in Kovensky Lane, in St. Petersburg. The message, as saying, is much more informative than its author suggested ...

This is a scribe.

Not mastering the elementary school, but who has lifted up in the nationalization of Christ, this particular scribe, alas, is far from the worst copy among the speakers on behalf of Orthodoxy ... This only writes, albeit on the wall, his comrades in the faith sometimes hit the supporters of other concepts of the universe ...

And I did not hear that the fighters have any problems on the confessional line. They are in trend!

A wild ruff from the most odorous varieties of xenophobia was a branded smell of Russian Orthodoxy. Lev Shestov, father Alexander Men, father Alexander Shmeman - expelled, died, killed ... So they are silent. Those who check themselves and their Christ with their humanistic ideas are marginals in today's Orthodoxy; Their votes are almost not heard, and those who are trying to sound the alarm, the Russian Orthodox Church, without particularly entering into the discussion, presses at the nomenclature level.

Meanwhile, the country's clericalization is a problem not only for the mrap itself, already slipping towards the Orthodox Taliban - this is a problem for Orthodoxy! Actually, this is the same problem - on different phases of movement of a sweeping historical pendulum.

Symbols, as you know, do not exist in a vacuum - they are filled with meanings. Kryuchkorers from Nazism willingly tell you that the swastika is an ancient Indian sign, a symbol of fertility. I don’t know, I didn’t find it, but let's say ... what does it change? Nothing! From some, very definite times, the swastika means only what it means, and will no longer mean anything else.

The sickle and the hammer for my young party grandmother meant freedom, equality and brotherhood, the world without violence, paradise on earth ... By the day of her death behind this disgusting symbol, only concentration camps and intervention, humiliation, lies, squalor ... Only they were.

The same semantic fate is once again! - The Orthodox cross awaits if, in the minds of millions of people, he will finally contact one day not with faith, but with the Nomenclature of the Russian Orthodox Church, “bonuses” and other “nanopyl”.

Does Nietzsche were responsible for Goebbels, Proudhon - for Suslov, Seraphim of Sarov - for Gundyaev? Personally - no, of course, but ideology, like a person, has a reputation, and, developing gradually, one day it is completely petrified.

And then, on one not too beautiful day, the same historical pendulum arrives at the place of winning petrification-a hefty cast-iron “woman” named Klio ... and-the Physical Culture of Uvarov-Pobedonostsev! -The God-bearer begins to shoot at the icons.

Because it got out. Not Christ got it, of course - what kind of Christ is on the Okhotny row? - Priests! But under the root, at the same time, love, mercy, and everything that is in the original Christianity is cut down ...

Well, from such turns, “everything suddenly” does not happen to anyone. To the commissar, to whom it seems that now everything is fine, the same cast-iron “woman” will fly in a couple of decades.

She will fly to his pofigists after another half a century, when food in the country, following the brains, will end.

The pendulum of history will certainly fly - this is the little that you can vouch for! But until then, the triumphant winners manage, as a rule, to break firewood ...

To the departure of my peers in Christianity in the seventies and eighties of the last century, I treated with surprise and understanding. Surprise was due to my attitude to religion in general, but this was at least a moral choice, an alternative to a party lies, obsessed with my teeth!

For forty years, the alternative has swallowed, petrified and became the dominant ideology, lies and shamelessness. Today, "here" is gaining strength - obscurantism. Pagan cults of “relics” and “belts”, aggressive “gonalnesses”, the annoying introduction of Orthodoxy into secular institutions, the fascist of flocks, the sodomic merging of the Russian Orthodox Church with non -controlled power ...

The pendulum has already flew away quite far beyond the point of public balance and day after day continues to accumulate the energy of a serious return ...

We will wait until it arrives back, fraternity?

Photo of Galina Fisenko