God to help us

Good news! Metropolitan of the Ufa and Sterlitamak Nikon gave permission to resume sessions of the expulsion of demons from demoniac Russians in the St. Nicholas Cathedral. The first starts will pass this week . The highest degree of religiosity more and more fascinates Russians, and now we see the processions against influenza, we hear prayers to combat the ice and use the Orthodox Wi-Fi. What else do the Russians believe in?

According to the VTsIOM , over the past twenty -five years, the number of Russians who rely on God in everyday life has grown - from 49% to 67%. In addition, there were twice as many people, confident that the life path of a person is predetermined. Now 48% of Russians believe in the inevitable. God will always help, the main thing is to contact Him correctly.

News about the processions devoted to a variety of occasions have become a kind of norm. In 2014, a procession against corruption organized by Cossacks was held in Sergiev Posad, the Russian Planet reports . Last year, during fires in Transbaikalia in fire hazardous areas, they also organized processions, reports Novosibirsk Room. This year, in the village of Muzersky in Karelia with an growing flu epidemic, it was also decided to fight with the help of a procession-twelve local residents traveled a village on cars, reports RK-Press. The local administration supported the idea of: “Three and a half thousand people live here. And for now, thank God, not a single school is closed and not a single kindergarten. To fight such a heavy ailment, as they say, all means are good. ”

Support among the Higher Forces is looking for both ordinary Russians and officials. For example, in June 2015, the Governor of the Samara Region Nikolai Merkushkin suggested "relatively speaking, praying to God, so that we receive a pension in five years." According to him, “all the country's reserves will end next year,” if oil prices are low, Rain reports .

The mayor of Arkhangelsk said that after the missionary course from St. Petersburg to the homeland of John of Kronstadt in the village of Sura, the economy and the spiritual life of the region will improve. “I think that the Arkhangelsk land will immediately go spiritually and economically up, because it does not happen differently,” Flashnord quotes his words.

The head of Pyatigorsk refused to build a crematorium, although, according to experts, its creation could solve the problem of lack of land for burials. Commenting on his refusal, the mayor said that he is a believer, reports Yuga.ru.

Faith is manifested not only in words, but also in practice: one of the capital's monasteries revives the oath of cadets for loyalty to God and the Fatherland. “The pupils of the lyceum in front of the cross and the gospel, holy icons and banners solemnly promise to store the Orthodox faith, to be worthy citizens and patriots of Russia,” RIA Novosti reports .

The member of the Public Chamber proposed introducing the “Orthodox standard” of products, which should become an analogue of halal among the Muslims and the Kosher among the Jews, Interfax reports .

Meanwhile, a special religious Wi-Fi is developed, which will block messages from sectarians or extremists, information about distorted facts of history and porn requests. Free access points will appear near the temples and in the places popular among youth - at the Winzavod, in the Museum, in Manezhnaya and Borovitskaya squares, Izvestia reports .

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What does it mean?

Your beloved Samizdat turned to the chief editor of the magazine “State, Religion, Church” (RANEPA) Dmitry Uzlaner, who informed us that in fact, religiosity is observed among the population of Russia.

“Even if you take the existing [statistical] data, I do not see any significant fluctuations - there was a qualitative shift after the collapse of the USSR, when the number of atheists was rapidly reduced and the number of believers increased rapidly, the atheistic materialistic worldview went out of fashion and was replaced by what was at hand, which was suppressed during the years of the Soviet government. Since then (the last fifteen to twenty years), nothing is particularly changing, the expert believes. -We can say that the religious component in the past few years has become part of the state ideology and television propaganda-the “emotionality” of this propaganda leads, among other things, to exalted religious bursts, which hardly testify to some quality shifts. This does not mean that there will be no qualitative changes. They will be, but sociological surveys will not show them; And when they show, the situation will already be completely different. These qualitative changes will be associated with the rise of atheistic, anticleric, secularist sentiments. In short, with the rise of all that is underground today and attracts new generations with its non -conformism, a challenge to the establishment and other counterculturalism. The only question is when it will happen. ”

We follow the development of events.