Do not believe heresy with prosecutors

On June 11, the State Duma adopted in the third, final reading the law on criminal liability for "insulting the feelings of believers"

Everything else that is often interpreted as an insult is called somehow differently: “awkward statement”, “tactlessness”, “manifestation of bad education” or somehow more.

And a sense of insult is often explained by increased imagination, resentment or simply insufficient adequacy of those who are inclined to offend what they are.

1. Feelings , by the way, are not only religious. And any of them is insulting badly, unwell.

Yes, only it is unlikely that such subtle matter as feeling can be regulated using legal and even more fateful mechanisms.

What laws on feelings would never have adopted the current composition of the State Duma, to use and put them in practice inevitably the current personnel of the prosecutor and subordinate institutions will become. With all the ensuing consequences.

1. Public protection of the rights and feelings of those who are the least protected, the matter, frankly, is holy.

But it is precisely the believers who believe in God that seem to me just the most protected part of society. Their feelings are not protected by the police, not by the courts and prosecutors, not deputies and presidents, namely Vera itself. Another question: what is this faith?

1. Faith is not only feelings, faith is a special type of knowledge. And knowledge cannot be offended. Will the scientist sane and self-respecting and self-respecting and his science are offended, if any socially active profane tells him directly that all his formulas with their unexpected beaks and squiggles, all his graphs and tables-dog nonsense and scam? I think it is unlikely.

2. However, the category of faith is applicable not only to believers in God. For example, there are people who firmly believe that there is no God in principle. And they have the same right to this faith as the believers that God is. And by the way, they also have feelings. Sometimes the finest.

And what do you order to do when they hear something like “an atheist is a servant of the devil,” or more than that: “an atheist is an enemy of the church, and therefore the enemy of the state, for the church is the basis of statehood.” Something very similar I saw with my own eyes printed.

Is this not an insult to feelings? Of course, it is the most. In this case, the sense of believers who believes in the Russian constitution was offended, where not a single word is said that the Church is the basis of statehood. The heresy is so radical in its shamelessness deeply insulting for a believing citizen. But the Constitution unequivocally says that the church is separated from the state.

1. The feelings of some not very balanced, but unusually sensitive citizens who are firmly believed in the absence of higher principles are offended by the view of the golden crosses, the singing of Moujin, the black hat of Hasida, and the tinkling of Krishna bells. What to do to ships and prosecutors with their offended feelings?

2. Or, for example, a recent statement about the “lampshade”-it deeply offended the feelings of a large number of sincere believers that the ideology of national socialism was defeated in May 1945 and that the colossal human and spiritual sacrifices of that terrible war were not in vain.

3. And finally, can there be anything more offensive to the feelings of believers in the law and justice than the fact that the laws on “insulting the feelings of believers” are adopted by those whose right to adopt any laws, to put it mildly, doubtfully?

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