There is no God

It happened. Russian justice officially recognized the public denial of the existence of God by a criminal offense under part 1 of Art. 148 of the Criminal Code (insulting the feelings of believers). I emphasize: in his decision, the so -called judge Ekaterina Shoponyak claims that the composition of the crime does not form a shocking form in which Sokolovsky expressed his views, but the very fact of the public denial of the existence of God. To dry for the denial of God Viktor Krasnov , who wrote on the social network “there is no boh”, for purely formal reasons: the expiration of the statute of limitations. Now we just made up for the missed.

And this fact is much more important than the fact that Sokolovsky was left at large. There is no need to talk about any victory. On the contrary, the verdict marks the transition of a clerical -feudal reaction to a qualitatively new stage in the country's collision in the Middle Ages - to the formal prohibition of the public expression of atheistic views.

There is no doubt that the "judge" Ekaterina Shoponyak committed a serious state crime expressed in an encroachment on the foundations of the constitutional system, enshrined in a particularly protected section of the Russian Constitution. These articles not only declare the secular character of the state, but also directly prohibit the introduction of any state ideology. Since there is no God, any religion is nothing more than a form of political ideology. And the criminal ban on the expression of disagreement with any ideology is just the main point that gives this ideology a state character.

There is no doubt that while Putin and his clique remain in power, no one will not only punish Ekaterina Shoponyak for the serious state crime she committed, but he will not even pull her. The incident is the natural result of the evolution of the Putin regime in the direction of an increasingly frenzied traditionalist reaction. The Putin regime is a product of an attempt to revenge Archaic, its instrument and combat avant -garde.

It is natural and final moral fall in the Russian Orthodox Church MP. She had the last chance to save her face, resolutely condemning the sentence in that part in which he defines as a composition of the crime a public denial of the existence of God. The Russian Orthodox Church did not take this chance. Instead, a disgusting and miserable statement of the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate Igumen Serapion was followed that Sokolovsky should perceive his sentence "as a sign that there is mercy in this world." The Russian Orthodox Church, thus, signed that she considers the criminal prosecution for the expression of atheistic views normal. That is, in the fact that she is a ghost that appeared from the Middle Ages and seeking to drag us there.

The trial of Sokolovsky with maximum rigidity holds a new dividing line in society. Or, in principle, you support the ban on public propaganda of atheism and criminal prosecution for such propaganda. And then you are a minister of the medieval inquisition. Or you believe that no protection of people's feelings can serve as a basis for restricting the right of other people to publicly deny the existence of God. And then you are ready to support the persecuted by all means, and to attack their persecutors in the most vulnerable places of their tender feelings.

The trial of Sokolovsky finally makes the central issue of confrontation between clerical obscurantism the protection of the right to atheism. It is not the protection of the artist’s right to an unconventional interpretation of religious images, which in itself may not contradict religious principles. Namely, the protection of law is fundamentally contradicting all religious principles. The rights to criticize religion as such - as a backward and reactionary form of public consciousness. The right to say that there is no God.