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Christ is risen?
Yakov Ilyich Gilinsky responded to the Easter holiday with an interesting joking post in the FB (04/08/2018) :
“A difficult moral problem,” J. I. writes “what should I do when today they say“ Christ is risen! ”? In truth, I want to answer “Can't be!”. But - they will be offended ... to say “you too!” (as I say, when I am congratulated on other church holidays) - it does not sound! ... Small - indecent. Reply “Truly Risen!” “But this is a terrible lies on my part, and I have never been trying to lie in many decades for many decades ... and what to do? ..”
Of course, this is a joke in which there is a lot of serious. Now more and more people are seriously related to rituals, trying to see literal meaning in every word. Almost every holiday causes clashes of mutual misunderstanding. And you are increasingly thinking: to congratulate or not to congratulate, because you never know what to do with the ritual to come across.
This is a classic ethnometodological problem of exposure to be inexperienced and attempts to find meaning in parts.
You can not subject the rituals of deconstruction. The output is inevitable of ethnometodological nonsense. Speaking “thank you”, we do not associate this ritual word with our attitude to God, but greeting, we do not necessarily think about the health of our interlocutor. Similarly, with the CV. If we are not going to turn a fleeting meeting into a discussion about the being of God, then there is no problem of participating in the ritual. People who are not very preoccupied with the Orthodox faith, I answer "Yes, I heard too!" Although seriously believers I will not say that.
And here we go to another larger problem of tolerance to another culture, which often appears to be a pile of errors. And the believer and unbeliever look at each other with bewilderment. But if we are doomed to live together, then it remains to bring our beliefs beyond the brackets of the situation.