Do not start boomerang! About protecting the feelings of believers

Peter Paul Rubens. Simon Pharisei
Paradox: the more primitive the error is, the harder it is to explain to the third -party public, what exactly its fallacy is. Most professionals, in words about a single and only textbook of history in horror, grab their heads; The normal layman, opening naive eyes, sincerely perplexed: what could be bad here? And try to prove that this is evil: on the move, unambiguously and affordable. Politicians often and skillfully use this; Most are enough, opponents that are knitting in reasoning are shameful. And what will come out there, what will happen? Yes, it will be that we will not be, as Pushkin said in such cases.

The law on the protection of the feelings of believers is from this demagogic series. No matter how much his hidden meanings and hidden consequences explain, he is sweet for the hearing of the current voter because he rhymes with a massive sense of threat. And as soon as you begin to develop its system unit, lay out on the shelves - immediately interest in you will fade away; Harse, Emelya, we are not up to you. It is very boring to listen to tedious notations that feelings are an elusive, indefinable, uncontrolled thing.

It is even more darling to delve into the rational arguments that thoughts and heart movements are not subject to real protection on behalf of the state, but objects, places and space. That is, everything that society is ready to endow with a special status, declare socially sacred, to demand a refusal of publicly manifested contempt. The forms of which are cataloged, described and fixed by law. As in some Russian Pravda. The cutting of the cross - 15 kun, drawing the swastika on the wall of the synagogue - 10 (or, say, 20), a concert on the soot without the written permission of the abbot - public censure. And not because it offends feelings, but because it violates the rules of behavior in the places that we agreed to distinguish from the general series.

Moreover, for a state that declared itself secular, there is no and cannot be a particular difference between the social and religious space. On the same grounds, with the same passion and with the same cold indifference, it has the right , and the opportunity, and the obligation to put on a special protection from vandals, actual artists and huts, theaters, monuments to soldiers, tombstones, including tombstones on the graves of dubious persons. You think that the cross should not stand here - go to the municipality, convince you to give permission; Find the construction of the theater at this point incorrect - sue the Department of Culture; We are convinced that the monument was erected by the villain - demand it in a legal way. And you will climb the columns, sprinkle the fragments on the stage, file the base of the crucifix or the paint of the paint board, get it according to merits. Because - a significant object.

But since, I repeat, to explain all this is completely useless, long, tedious, I will say only two things.

First: the law is dangerous primarily for those who are advanced today. The current government will favors conservative, traditional, familiar. Orthodoxy is clearer than agnosticism, Berl-Lazarovsky edition of Judaism is closer to the renovationist rabbis, the good old Islam is Wahhabism, and Buddhism, as we learned yesterday, is generally as a native to us. But do not hang on the reality, on the sons of human, there are no salvations in them; Today they are more pleasant to Berl Lazar, and tomorrow Heydar Jemal will love; Today they are Orthodox, but they are already ready to let go of the Nevzorov chain - let him climb on the church in the status of the presidential proceedings; What will happen in the years when Orthodoxy will be tired of them (or next), “it would be time to leave his boys in fun”?

As soon as this happens, it suddenly turns out that the law on the protection of feelings easily unfolds in any direction. Traditional religions may well begin to insult the refined feelings of the renovationists, atheists will gather forces, register the community of believers in complete disbelief and get the right to religious experiences that are so easy to hurt. And the imams, who have already become the heads in one individual of the Russian Republic, can be offended by both bell ringing and films about Christianity. You see, they will also be banned. And one of the faithful Jews ... and so on and the like. Friends, do not launch a boomerang; Boomerangs have an unpleasant property - they know how to return at the most inappropriate minute and hit the head very painfully.

And the second ... You never know any of my Orthodox co -religionists, preaching inhumanity as a norm of life and tracing everything that I think in the church is the main thing: love, mercy, patience, humility, life -giving joy of the heart, fraternal responsiveness? What should I sue with them now?