Obscurantist symphony

In St. Petersburg, another scandal erupted on the basis of church obscurantism. Smolny purchased more than 800 copies of the book of the "Orthodox historian" Yuri Mikhailov "Moral image of history." In an ordinary spirit for Orthodox obscurants, the author declares democracy godless power, in all troubles blames the humanists of the Renaissance, rationalists of the Enlightenment, and, of course, "Jews". The followers of the beloved Orthodox Holy Russian Intelligentsia Neil Sorsky - non -possessors. But the author worships Ivan the Terrible. He writes that only a corrupted Western liberal consciousness is unable to understand the beneficiality of the sovereign thunderstorm and "even the execution from the anointed of God to perceive with thanksgiving." You can immediately find historical research about the fact that the Slavs were the very first people on Earth.

The deputy of the Legislative Assembly Maxim Reznik requested on what basis this purchase is made. The governor replied that the Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI) were submitted the application. This Moscow Institute is a state scientific institution, whose activities are financed by the Presidential Affairs Department. Smolny and will continue to acquire literature of a cultural and educational nature.

Now Reznik intends to send letters to the prosecutor's office and the E -E -E Center, so that they checked the book of Yuri Mikhailov for extremism. "The Constitution prescribed that Russia is a democratic state. Thus, the statements of" atheism "undermine the foundations of the constitutional system," he says.

When a few years ago the leadership of the Yabloko party demanded to introduce criminal liability for the denial of or justification of the crimes of Stalinism, I proposed supplementing the future criminal article with the clause of denial or justification of the crimes of Ivan the Terrible. Typically, such proposals are perceived as a purely rhetorical technique. However, today we see how Maxim Reznik is seriously expelled from the Yabloko party, seriously seeks to verify the extremism of a book containing the denial and justification of the crimes of Ivan the Terrible. What is called, came.

Those who demand to test their ideological and political opponents for extremism only feed the ghouls from the Putin’s guard and Putin’s “vessels” with fresh blood. Thus, it is only necessary that there are more such checks. The more there are, the more ghouls will expand the interpretation of "inciting". And then to consolidate this expansion interpretation in the new "funny laws" about the insult of all kinds of feelings.

I am convinced that even the Nazis and Nazis have the right not only to freedom of speech, but also to freedom after a word. Anti -Semite, Black Highway, Orthodox obscurantist Konstantin Dushenov is the same political prisoner, a prisoner of conscience, as well as progressive participants in the performance in the shopping center of the Russian Orthodox Church. Hitler’s book should not be prohibited, but studied at school. I hope that the work of the Orthodox thinker Mikhailov will not replenish the Erefovsk "index of prohibited books." I really would not want circumstances to arise that will force me to intercede for those whom I consider my enemies. I prefer to fight them not to file complaints to the guard against inciting, namely inciting. Injection of enmity and hatred of their ideas.

In no way, I do not question the right of religious obscurantists to publish my nonsense and express disagreement with the basics of the constitutional system. Moreover, the semi -frost -mining constitution imposed on Russia does not cause much respect for me. But the St. Petersburg scandal again showed: obscurantist ravings are approved by official church structures and are quite in demand by state structures. This is another example of that "sodomic merger of the Russian Orthodox Church with lawless power", which Viktor Shenderovich wrote about.

No church can but be involved in the affairs of secular society, including politics. Any church declares that its mission is the struggle against sin, the condemnation of sin. A fair share of human sins is committed precisely in the field of politics. And since the church claims the right to evaluate the sinfulness of secular society, secular society has the right to evaluate how the Church itself corresponds to the principles that it declares. Including in politics.

In 1980, Archbishop of San Salvador Oscar Romero was killed by the ultra -right frustration because he publicly condemned the terror unleashed by a military man in the alliance with the semi -sub -threat “death squadrons” in his sermons. This is a mission of ministry. When the Church frankly supports power, a intoxicated, stealing voices in the elections, this means that it authorizes the sin of theft. And when the society yells about the theft, and the church is silently silent about this, this means that it loudly indicates that there was no theft. That is, it makes a sin of perjury. This means that the top of the current Russian Orthodox Church is just an integral part of the ruling corporation of crooks and thieves. And since she achieves state repression against her opponents, she is also a trivial branch of the security officer. This means that today she is the worst enemy of the Russian people.

And she does not have any holiness from an atheistic point of view, or from the point of view of that creed, the commitment to which she declares. They say that atheists are not entitled to judge the church, because they do not understand anything in faith. But the one who is trying to teach at the god atheists should be ready for the fact that atheists will begin to teach to believe in God himself.