You are on a white horse, and I am on a white horse. The church mafia is plunging Russia into a fetid, black swamp of religious obscurantism

In a region where schoolchildren are required to study “Orthodox Culture,” the number of infections with sexually transmitted diseases among children and adolescents has sharply increased

"In the Belgorod region over the past seven years number only Teenagers with syphilis increased 14 times, children under 12 years old - 35 times. According to the regional dermatovenous dispensary, the main source of infection is unprotected sexual contact, reports the correspondent of “Portal-Credo.Ru” with reference to the Belgorod news agency Bel.Ru.”

According to a poll “15% of girls and 22% of boys noted the presence of sexual contacts in their lives. Moreover, 50% of them indicated that their first sexual intercourse was committed before the age of 15...” As a preventive measure Doctors talk about the need for sex education for children and adolescents in the family and school with the participation of specialists (venereologists, urologists) and psychologists, the use of condoms.

What is preventing us from stopping this African squalor - syphilis in teenagers!? Here's what:

In 2006, defense and industrial complex became a compulsory subject for study in schools in the Belgorod region from grades 2 to 11 (in the regional version it is called "Orthodox culture"). At the beginning of 2010, the ruling bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church MP, Archbishop Ioann (Popov), set the task for priests to check the quality of teaching of the military education complex, which is conducted by secular teachers.

The Russian Orthodox Church MP considers sex education for schoolchildren and more broadly - the whole range of measures called “Family Planning” - "Western invention", the main purpose of which is to destroy the foundations of Russian family tradition.

"Many Orthodox Christians are concerned conversations about the possibility of introducing sex education for schoolchildren and juvenile justice (the Western juvenile justice system) in Russia, said Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill at a meeting with the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party Vyacheslav Volodin and his deputy Andrei Isaev on Wednesday in Moscow"
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“United Russia assured the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church that they will defend Russian traditions in the field of raising children and protecting their rights. Volodin and Isaev promised to counteract understanding such an interpretation of the Social Charter of the Council of Europe, which would push Russia to introduce sex education and juvenile justice."

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of socialist society, the Church entered a new phase of its development - it not only restored its position in the country, but significantly exceeded it. In fact, along with secular power, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has today become the second power in Russia. Despite the fact that according to our Constitution, the Church is separated from the state, it, as in the tsarist period, receives full support for its interests at all levels of government - from the smallest official to the president of the country. Moreover, the current position of the Russian Orthodox Church compares favorably with its status before 1917, when it had no independence and was subordinate to the highest secular leader of the state - the Tsar. Having gained strength in a short time, she became so bold that for the first time in the history of the Russian state she announced at her council the possibility of her disobedience to state power (“Fundamentals social concept Russian Orthodox Church").

Today the Russian Orthodox Church presents itself as the main spiritual force of our state. For their part, officials and deputies who support the Church in its desire to play a leading role in the spiritual life of society are confident that it can raise its morality and, above all, the morality of the younger generation. Due to the fact that officials and deputies do not know the history of the Russian Orthodox Church well, they should know that the moral character of the Russian Orthodox Church itself is very far from perfect and therefore trusting it with the care of our citizens and especially the education of our children would be a big mistake.

Considering yourself the most perfect religious organizations not only among all the Churches of the world, but also among the heterodox Churches, the Russian Orthodox Church found neither time nor reason to admit that in its history there were not only mistakes, but also crimes that it should regard as sins, and grave sins. And sins, as follows from Christian doctrine, one should acknowledge, repent of them and pray for them. And ask for forgiveness. And not so much from God (better not only from Christ, but from the entire Holy Trinity), but from the peoples of Russia. Unfortunately, the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church and, above all, its Patriarch Alexy II, in their pride, does not see any sins behind them and does not want to repent for them. But in vain...

Pope John Paul II

Meanwhile, at one time, the head of the first largest Christian Church - the Catholic Church, uniting more than one billion believers, the “vicar of God on earth” Pope John Paul II was able to critically approach the actions of the Christian Church and recognize the Church as sinful, admit the mistakes of its leadership (including including the mistakes of the Popes) and ask for forgiveness for them. Among past sins, the Pope named the acts of the Inquisition, waging religious wars, discrimination against women in the Church and passivity Catholic priests in relation to protection from persecution of Jews, especially during the Nazi era. The Pope also condemned the Church's tolerance of slavery in past times and for the fact that monasteries and local Churches enriched themselves through the exploitation of slaves. In the Apostolic Letter of the Pope on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary “Tertio millenio adveniente”, for the first time in history, Christians were spoken of as responsible for the evil that is happening today.

In May 2001, during a visit to Greece, in a conversation with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Christodoulos, the Pope asked for forgiveness not only from Orthodox Greeks, but also from Orthodox believers around the world. Following the Catholic Church, some Protestant organizations have also made public statements that they repent for the harm that Christians (Protestant Christians) have caused to Jews and Judaism.

Russian Orthodox Church and sins

What about the Orthodox Churches, how do they feel about the laudable initiative of the Catholic Church? Very restrained, even disapproving and almost without comment. Since the Russian Orthodox Church pretends that the sins of the Catholic part of the Church do not concern it, its hierarchs should be reminded that the past of their Church was not at all pure and cloudless. And she has something to repent of both before the heterodox Churches and before the believers of other monotheistic Churches, the so-called. pagans and unbelievers. Chronicles testify to how Christianity was implanted in Rus', which cannot be suspected of a desire to denigrate the Russian Orthodox Church, because they were written by Christians.

Ancient Rus'

The inhabitants of ancient Kyiv were simply driven into the Dnieper and had to be baptized for fear of reprisals. Knowing that the Novgorodians were against the adoption of Christianity, troops were sent to baptize them together with Bishop Joachim Korsunyanin - the Kiev squad led by the thousand of Prince Vladimir - Putyata. The city was taken by storm, and the princely squad committed an act of blasphemy against the faith of the Novgorodians - images of their gods - statues were defeated (burnt, broken or drowned). Since there were few people willing to renounce their original faith, the faith of their fathers and grandfathers, and accept someone else’s faith, the princely squad forced them to accept it on pain of death. Those who did not accept Christianity suffered reprisals. This whole procedure gave the Novgorodians the basis to declare that “Putyata baptized with the sword, and Dobrynya (the Novgorod governor) - with fire.” The introduction of Christianity in Rus' was not a one-time act; it continued for many centuries - almost until the twentieth century. And often with fire and sword.

The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church did not hesitate to destroy entire peoples who did not want to accept Christianity. The letter of 1452 from Metropolitan Jonah to the Vyatka clergy eloquently testifies to how Christianity was implanted among non-Russian peoples. The priests tortured many people, starved them to death, threw them into the water, burned men, elders and small children in huts, burned out their eyes, impaled babies on stakes and killed them. At the same time, the Metropolitan did not condemn the clergy for the brutal massacre, but only warned that such bloody terror could arouse hatred of the clergy and cause damage to the Church. According to the charter Bishop of Novgorod Macarius to the Vodskaya Pyatina, dated 1534. Macarius sent orthodox icons and the consecrated cross to the Votic lands, ordering the assistant to “destroy the nasty prayers, and punish Christians and teach them the true Orthodox faith.” So the leaders accepted Christianity.

Rus' in the Middle Ages

In the 17th century, the forced baptism of the peoples of the Volga region and Siberia took place. In Siberia, the Siberian Metropolitan Philotheus Leshchinsky acted with fire and sword. He destroyed non-Christian cemeteries, chopped down and burned temples, erecting chapels in their place. Forced baptism of non-Russian peoples continued even in the 19th century. The black page in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church is the establishment of the patriarchate in Rus'. Arrived for money in June 1588 Patriarch of Constantinople Jeremiah II was not at all concerned with the establishment of the patriarchate in Rus'. Moreover, he actively did not want it. Metropolitan Hierotheus of Monemvasia, who was with Jeremiah, was forced to sign the charter establishing the patriarchate in Rus' only under the threat of drowning in the river! The illegality of the creation of the Moscow Patriarchate also lay in the fact that only the Ecumenical Synod had the power to make this decision, as was the case with all existing patriarchates.

The state Orthodox Church cracked down not only on pagans, but also on heretics (i.e., dissidents). According to the cathedral code of 1649, criticism of the Church and its dogmas was punishable by burning at the stake. Conversion to another faith was also punishable. Dissenters and those who converted to another faith (more often those who returned to their former faith) were considered enemies of the Church. These enemies of the Church were impaled, carried outside the city gates and burned, and the ashes were covered with earth.

Old Believers

After Nikon's reforms, terrible persecution of Old Believers began. It was the Russian Orthodox Church that initiated the publication during the reign of Princess Sophia of “12 articles on schismatics” (1685), which stated that even if some “especially dangerous” Old Believers join the mainstream Church, confess and receive communion from the official priest, then they still need to be “executed by death without any mercy.” And to execute by burning. The author of this document was Patriarch Joachim. At the insistence of the spiritual authorities, the villages where the schismatics lived, their monasteries and monasteries were destroyed. According to the testimony of foreigners, just before Easter 1685, Patriarch Joachim burned about 90 “church opponents” in log houses. One of the consequences of the bloody terror against the schismatics was their self-immolation, which took on large proportions in the 17th century. XVIII centuries. The most massive self-immolation occurred in the Olonets region in 1687. - schismatic peasants who rebelled against oppressive priests after desperate resistance The military detachment decided to burn themselves. 2,700 people died in the fire! As a result of the brutal reprisal of the spiritual department against schismatics during the 18th century, 1,733 people were burned, and 10,567 people self-immolated!

Inquisition in Rus'

Like the Catholic Church, the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church persecuted dissidents (“heretics”) with the help of its “holy inquisition.” The Russian Orthodox Church carried out its inquisitorial activities through the judicial authorities, which were at the disposal of the diocesan bishops, through the patriarchal court and church councils. It also had special bodies created to investigate cases against religion and the Church - the Order of Spiritual Affairs, the Order of Inquisitorial Affairs, the Raskolnichesky and New Epiphany offices, etc. Already in the 11th century, the Russian Orthodox Church dealt harshly with its opponents and demanded the same from the secular authorities. The Laurentian Chronicle of 1069 tells about the atrocities of the Rostov Bishop Fyodor: “People suffered a lot from him... cutting their heads... and burning out their eyes and cutting off their tongues.” The Novgorod bishop Luka Zhidyata, who lived in the 11th century, is called “beast-eating” by the Christian chronicler. “This tormentor,” says the chronicler, “cut off heads and beards, burned out eyes, cut off the tongue, crucified others and subjected them to torture.” Church opponents were burned at the stake and boiled in their “own juice” in red-hot iron cauldrons.

Foma Ivanov, who spoke out against religious dogmatism, was brought to church in chains and anathematized. After this, he was tortured and imprisoned in the Chudov Monastery, and on December 30, 1714, a log house was built in Moscow on Red Square, where Ivanov was placed, after which the log house was burned. The burning of heretics took place in Rus' from 1504 to 1743, and quite regularly. Heretics were also punished in other ways, for example, by drowning.

Already in the 11th century, witchcraft processes took place in Rus'. Chronicles note that in 1024, wise men and “dashing women” were captured in the Suzdal land. Both were put to death by burning. They were accused of being the culprits of the crop failure that befell the Suzdal land. In 1411 (almost a hundred years before the start of the witch hunt in Europe), twelve “prophetic wives” sent a plague to Pskov, for which they paid with their lives at the stake. The last time a Russian witch was sent to the stake was in 1682. It was Marfushka Yakovleva, who was convicted of hexing Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich himself. Following the example of its Catholic comrades, the Orthodox Inquisition developed in the 13th century methods for recognizing witches and sorcerers by fire, cold water, hanging, etc. Supporting faith in the devil and his power, the Russian Orthodox Church declared any doubt about the reality of the devil to be heretical. The victims of Orthodox inquisitors were mainly women. According to church beliefs, women most easily entered into intercourse with the devil. Women were accused of ruining the crops, the weather, and that they were to blame for crop failures and famine.

Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian people

Separately, it should be said about the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church towards the Russian people and state. Contrary to the increasingly popular idea today about the special love of the Russian Orthodox Church for the Russian people, its leadership did not always stand on their side. So, when from the second third of the 12th century Kievan Rus Centrifugal tendencies began to strengthen, when the interests of numerous appanage princes prevailed over considerations of national unity; the Church not only did not oppose them, but often supported them. There have been periods in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church when it took the side of the enemy. Thus, in the middle of the 13th century, clergy called for people to come to terms with the Tatar yoke and treat it as a well-deserved punishment from God.

During the period of the liberation struggle of Rus' against the Golden Horde yoke (XIV - XV centuries), although some hierarchs stood up to fight the enemy, for example, the abbot of the Trinity Monastery Sergius of Radonezh - most The clergy, based on their own interests, collaborated with the invaders and called on parishioners to humility and submission. And the Rostov Bishop Tarasius, together with the prince, brought the predatory hordes of Duden into Rus', plundering and destroying Vladimir, Suzdal, Moscow and a number of other Russian cities. Numerous sources indicate that during this period the clergy was in an incomparably better position than the people. The priests of the Russian Orthodox Church under the rule of the Horde quickly adapted - many themselves hastened to go into service with the Tatars and called on the people to submit. The head of the Church, Metropolitan Joseph, fled, leaving the department. The bishops of Ryazan and Rostov, Galicia and Przemysl also fled. The Mongols not only did not oppress, but also provided the Orthodox clergy with all kinds of benefits and concessions. Thanks to these benefits, Orthodox clergy did not experience even a hundredth part of the hardships that fell on the Russian people. In particular, monasteries and clergy were completely exempt from paying tribute. For faithful service to the conquerors, the Orthodox clergy were given special labels (letters of grant) from the khans.

When in 1601 - 1603 The country was struck by famine, during which “a third of the kingdom of Moscow” died out; bishops and monasteries (contrary to the decree of Boris Godunov) did not share their bread with the people. “The patriarch himself,” wrote a witness to the events, “having a large supply of bread, announced that he did not want to sell the grain, for which they would have to give even more money.”

ROC and Soviet power

The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church should not forget that 140 years ago, serfdom in Russia was recognized as godly, and the sale of one person to another on the basis of “baptized property” was also recognized as such. Liberation from serfdom in Russia occurred a hundred years later than in the West, largely due to the resistance of the clergy. The Russian Orthodox Church actively defended the unlimited power of the tsar: “Every thought about some kind of constitution,” stated Bishop Nikon, “about some kind of agreement between the tsar and the people is blasphemy, an unforgivable insult not only to the tsar, but also to God” (Voice of the Church, 1912 , No. 10, p. 47).

And in the outbreak of the civil war of 1917 - 1921. Much of the blame lies with the Russian Orthodox Church. After all, the initiators of the clash with the Bolsheviks were the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Bolsheviks published their manifesto on the land (the second after the decree on peace), the ministers of the Church fiercely opposed them. Of course - after all, their land was taken away from them, which brought them huge incomes! After the Tsar, the Russian Orthodox Church was the largest landowner. They immediately forgot the words of Christ that to the one who takes your shirt, “...give your outer garment also” (Matthew 5:40) and his call “Love your enemies.” Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin) declared an anathema (i.e. church curse) Soviet power and began to call on the people to rise up in civil war.
To protect your property and your well-fed life!

When our champions of Christianity say that the Russian Orthodox Church is the custodian of ancient Russian culture, they are knowingly telling a lie. After all, everything is really ancient Russian, Slavic culture pre-Christian times (VI - X centuries) was destroyed. And it was destroyed by Christians. Destroyed to the ground! All the early works of ancient Russian architecture perished - ancient Russian temples, sanctuaries and temples, sacred groves, all sculpture, all ancient church utensils, all works of applied art. All ancient Russian fairy tales, tales, and epics were destroyed. Due to the fault of Christians, Russian people call their children not Russian, but Jewish and Greek names. In this regard, the paradox of the Russian peasant arose: the symbol of the Russian peasant is a Russian man with a purely Jewish name Iyokhanaan (“gift of the gods”), remade into Ivan. Another paradox is that the culture that supporters of Christianity call Old Russian is basically alien to the Russian people, borrowed from the Greeks and Jews. Only gradually, over the centuries, did a partial Russification of this alien Christian (more precisely, Judeo-Christian) culture occur. Through the efforts of Christian “enlighteners”, the ancient writing of the Russian people was also destroyed. There is nothing left of her today. From the chronicle it is only known that such writing existed and that treaties with Byzantium were drawn up on it.

ROC and science

Another grave sin The Russian Orthodox Church lies in its centuries-old struggle against science and enlightenment, in which it was little inferior to its more powerful sister - the Catholic Church. The attacks of the Russian Orthodox Church on science forced the great Russian scientist M.V. Lomonosov to write in the “Regulations” of the academic university (1748): “The clergy should not become attached to teachings that show physical truth for benefit and enlightenment, and especially not criticize science in sermons.” It was not by chance that Mikhail Vasilyevich demanded “not to get attached,” because the clergy, still unofficially, expressed dissatisfaction with secular education. Like the Catholic Church, the Russian Orthodox Church actively fought against the teachings of Copernicus and Giordano Bruno and hindered the development of astronomy. Her clergy considered her “disgusting” Orthodox faith» heliocentric system. M.V. Lomonosov had to include in his famous “Letter on the benefits of glass... written in 1752” a sharp rebuke to the “fierce ignoramuses” who have been striving for centuries to destroy scientific astronomy. And on December 21, 1756, the spiritual department presented Empress Catherine II with a detailed report on the harmfulness of heliocentric views for Orthodoxy. The Synod asked for a personal decree, according to which it was necessary to “take away everywhere and send to the Synod” the publication of the book of the French writer and scientist Bernard Fontenelle, who propagated the teachings of Copernicus (1740), and the numbers of the academic “Monthly Works” of 1755 and 1756, and also strictly prohibit “so that no one dares to write or publish anything, both about the multitude of worlds and about everything else that is contrary to the holy faith and does not agree with honest morals, under the most severe punishment for a crime.”

The Orthodox clergy created many obstacles to the development of medicine. On Orthodox church councils XIV - XVII centuries, indices of prohibited books were considered and approved. In 1743, the synodal authorities demanded that the astronomical calendar published by the Academy of Sciences be withdrawn from sale (which was done): they found in it information “prone to tempting the people” “regarding the Moon and other planets.” It also objected to the publication of Russian chronicles undertaken by the Academy of Sciences (!).

In the 60s of the 19th century, the Russian Orthodox Church banned the publication of J. Verne’s novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, because spiritual censors found that this novel could develop anti-religious ideas and destroy confidence in the Holy Scriptures and the clergy. The Russian church authorities prohibited the publication of many works by prominent French writers - Flaubert, Anatole France, Emile Zola, etc.

At the insistence of the Synod on frontal place In Moscow, the book-dissertation of the prominent philosopher and mathematician D.S. Anichkov, “Reflections from natural theology on the beginning and origin of natural worship among various, especially ignorant peoples,” published in 1769, was publicly burned. This book was devoted to questions of the origin of religion. In the 19th century, works on geology, biology, botany, physiology, history, philosophy, and the works of Diderot, Holbach, Hobs, and Feuerbach were subject to censorship and other persecution of the clergy. Reading the works of Charles Darwin was prohibited, and his books were destroyed.

Only after the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Church began to gradually abandon open and crude attacks on science. However, after the collapse of the socialist system in Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church again began to openly criticize science. In particular, today she is again attacking evolutionary doctrine, declaring it a lie (V. Trostnikov Darwinism: the collapse of the world. Orthodox conversation, 1991, No. 2: 41-43). Instead, she persistently and aggressively invites the younger generation (preschool children, schoolchildren and students) to believe in an antediluvian fairy tale called “creationism” - about God’s creation of the Universe, consisting only of the planet Earth, two luminaries and the firmament of heaven with nailed to this firmament asterisks.

"Saints"

The leadership and clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church have something to repent of in connection with the canonization of saints. The Russian Orthodox Church took upon itself a great sin by declaring saints not just anyone, but a murderer - Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, who participated in the fratricidal war, killed the Polotsk prince Rogvolod and forcibly took his daughter Rogneda as his wife. All his “holiness” consists in the fact that he imposed on the Russian people a Judeo-Christian religion that was alien to them, but so desired by the priests. The heads of the Russian Orthodox Church (starting with Peter I, the nominal head of the Russian Orthodox Church until 1917 was the tsar (queen)) not only often behaved inappropriately, but some of them were simply oathbreakers. So, when Empress Elizaveta Petrovna was still crown princess, she hatched a conspiracy against the ruler Anna Leopoldovna and her son, the young Emperor John Antonovich. When the plot became known to Anna Leopoldovna and she demanded an explanation, Elizabeth burst into tears and threw herself into the ruler’s arms and, swearing to her that she was not plotting anything, convinced her that she was innocent. And she believed her! And on the night of November 24-25, 1741, Elizabeth, having led the conspiracy, overthrew Anna and her son and became empress.

Emperor Nicholas II, once again revered today by the Russian Orthodox Church, was also an oathbreaker, popularly nicknamed “the bloody” in connection with the shooting in January 1905 of a peaceful demonstration on the palace square in St. Petersburg. Since Alexander III considered Nicholas II incapable of ruling the country, he wanted to transfer the throne to his youngest son Mikhail. But when Alexander III died, Mikhail had not yet reached adulthood and could not accept the crown. Before his death, Alexander III took an oath from Nicholas II that he would renounce the throne as soon as Mikhail turned 21. “You yourself know that you will not save Russia,” the dying man said prophetically. “Take care of her until Mikhail comes of age.” When the revolution broke out and Nicholas II finally abdicated in favor of Michael, it was already too late.

Russian Orthodox Church and the Third Reich

The sinfulness of the Russian Orthodox Church in matters of morality is simply enormous! The moral inferiority of Orthodox morality can be judged, for example, by the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church towards wars and, in particular, by the explanation why Christian God killed (or allowed to be killed) civilians during the Great Patriotic War. During this war, the Church did not dare to declare that God punished people for their sins with war and destruction. This would be blasphemous, for the whole people are not and cannot be guilty before God. Moreover, women, old people and children do not have it.

During the war, it was impossible to use the second explanation common among the Church: God condones the suffering of people in order to mark them with his attention. The hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church understood then that such an explanation would not be understood by the people, because it is not only blasphemous, but also sounds mocking. Thus, both of these common explanations in in this case would be not only immoral, but also shameful for the Russian Orthodox Church.

However, more than half a century after the end of this terrible war and after the rights of the Church were fully restored and it again, as under the tsarist autocracy, felt its strength, the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church returned to medieval moral standards. Today they not only do not condemn the war, but also blasphemously express the traditional point of view of the Russian Orthodox Church that war is... good for people. Archpriest Vasily Preobrazhensky teaches: “We certainly believe: the outcome of all events - both small and great - is predetermined by God...” Think, reader, about the following mocking words of this servant of God: “... war is one of the ways through which Providence leads the human race to peace and salvation... War was established by God (allowed by him) primarily for the sake of public and universal admonition. ..”. This means that a person must believe that they are beating him, mocking him and his loved ones, killing him for... his own good!!!

The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church can also repent of its attitude towards Jews. IN Catholic Church from worship Good Friday the prayer for the “treacherous Jews” was removed. In some Orthodox countries A similar reform is also beginning to be carried out, but not in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Here, of course, not all the mistakes and crimes of the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church are given. But even those mentioned are quite enough to humbly lower your head and, following the Pope and the heads of some Protestant Churches (unfortunately, not all of them have banished pride) to bring words of repentance to their people. Maybe our long-suffering people will listen to them and forgive them. If he believes in the sincerity of repentance...

Gifted to priests? Why be surprised? The fact that Mr. Nobody named Poltavchenko, appointed for the post of Mayor of St. Petersburg, unilaterally made the decision give to priests St. Isaac's Cathedral (which never was not the property of the Russian Orthodox Church!) - a completely expected milestone in the aggressive planting [at the instigation of the state] of religious obscurantism into the towers of our fellow citizens...

No, I, of course, understand the state’s concern for filling the gaping void (left by the evaporated ideals of socialism and the other moral code of the builders of communism) in the souls of people, but I not only cannot approve of the state course towards the rapid immersion of Russia in the swamp of black religious obscurantism - I resolutely against this!

Still, it was an interesting historical experiment: after centuries of unbearable pressure from religious obscurantism, in 1917 the people of Russia (considered pious and even “God-bearing”), for some reason with pleasure began to completely burn and rob churches and hang fat priests! Well, yes - they were a wild people, dark and uneducated, but it seems to me that the priests were also not sugar, but slightly sick, since the God-bearing people, without a command, purposefully trampled them and chopped down icons with axes...

But! The leaders of the USSR were not idiots - they understood that the void in the souls of papillation (formed in place of the disavowed cult of the Russian Orthodox Church!) needed to be filled with something, for which they came up with a creative state quasi-religion - communist, which quite organically replaced the destructive religion implanted by the Russian Orthodox Church slave! Relying on the creative quasi-religion of communism, the USSR in a historically short time turned into a Great Power, won the most destructive and bloody war in the history of mankind, conquered space, and built the first social state in history, and this became one of the most significant achievements of human civilization !

And when the people of the USSR, having gone crazy, destroyed the great power and the communist quasi-religion died, then a void formed in the souls of the people again, what? That's right - the state has decided to fill this void again!

But! Unlike the USSR, the state of the times of the nitty Yeltsin was weak and schmuck, so this thieves’ state, understandably, did not master the project of a new quasi-religion, and the new “ideology of profit” had no bearing on religion. Therefore, they filled the souls of “dear Russians” with what was within walking distance and literally lying under their feet - that pathetic garbage that was eaten up in the trash for 70 years in shit and piss, but did not die completely - Russian Orthodox Church! They lifted them up, shook them off, washed them, fed them, rewarded them, apologized for the past, and declared the Russian Orthodox Church a “spiritual anchor” and a “support-pillar of the state”...

Unfortunately, in Russia we don’t have balanced, well-thought-out decisions - only maximum hardcore!

And shit started flowing through the pipes: duty-free trade in tobacco products and alcohol, massive seizures of real estate for the “return” of it to the Russian Orthodox Church, golden rain pouring on the priests from the state’s bins, etc. Next - “Gundyaevskaya apartment nanodust”, the blatant “seizures” by the Russian Orthodox Church of park areas of large cities for the construction of their own places of worship, etc., etc.

Just 15 years ago, the propaganda of religion and the Russian Orthodox Church caused bewilderment and laughter, but now those who are especially active in “bewilderment and laughing” can be put in a prison zone for this very “bewilderment.” new article of the Russian Federation for “insulting the feelings of believers,” and the President church services taken for granted! Criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church is almost completely prohibited, and we hear terrible, disgusting PR and shameless propaganda of the importance of the Russian Orthodox Church from every iron!

What is especially disgusting and dangerous is that the Russian Orthodox Church methodically, persistently and consistently sticks its black dab into schools, which is very cunning and prudent - you need to prepare your own herd for “hilling” from a young age. If possible. And, this possibility is becoming more and more realistic!

Well, what about the citizens... And what about the citizens? Russian citizens are thirsty Miracle!

Well, here it is: Citizens believed in Miracle : "Only the Russian Orthodox Church will save Russia and make it prosperous!" The other side of the MIRACLE, which opened the people's chakras, is also not bad: “Whoever is not a fan of the Russian Orthodox Church is an enemy of Russia!”

And off it went Miracle, t.s., to the masses:

Millions of communists, who just yesterday denounced, branded with shame, voluptuously trampled on those who dared to subject their children to the rite of baptism, today suddenly en masse passionately and fanatically believed in Jesus and, with a devilish fire in their eyes, frantically rushed to defend even the most vile movements of their newfound “spiritual father.” " - ROC! And now these “new crusaders,” religious fanatics and “adherents of the faith,” pointing their fingers at those dissatisfied with their obscurantist goodies, shout with schizoid pleasure: “LET’S CRUCIFY THEM!!!”

On the one hand, all this, of course, is funny, but on the other, it’s really disgusting, because obscurantism is always disgusting, and mass obscurantism is dangerous both for its bearers and for the state...

In general, the constitutional declaration: "The church in Russia is separated from the state" at the current political moment, it has turned into meaningless letters on paper, since in fact Russia, having abandoned the course towards enlightenment and education, is rapidly plunging into the fetid, black swamp of state religious obscurantism of the lowest sort, and this is very sad.

I return to the “gift”. The fact that someone (I don’t believe that Poltavchenko made such a decision on his own, without instructions from above) donated St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the priests is just another milestone, and there will be many more of these. Well, then, perhaps, the new year of 1917 will break out, which in this situation is very likely, gygygygy!

This is how we get ouroboros!...

Continuation:

Some time has passed since then, and I realized that not everything is as bad as I thought - after all, in Russia there are many educated, smart people, who openly opposed the obscurantism of the Russian Orthodox Church in general and the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the monks in particular:

in St. Petersburg, thousands of people held rallies against the transfer of the Council to greedy priests,

a petition against the transfer of the cathedral to the priests collected more than 200,000 signatures,

Scientists and art critics opposed the transfer,

But, of course, the obscurantists never sleep! The bastards have launched an unprecedented campaign to smear all those who oppose the unjustified preferences of the Russian Orthodox Church (the main slogan of the obscurantists: "Whoever is against the transfer of IP to the Russian Orthodox Church is against Russia, and is a liberal working for the State Department!" ), and also began to write slanderous libels, in which they throw shit at the workers of the “Museum of St. Isaac's Cathedral” - they claim that the museum workers are saboteurs, plunderers, thieves and criminals. True, I do not understand how to logically link these “revelations” with the “necessity” of transferring the IP of the cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. Well, just remember that the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church have always been a model of selflessness, lack of money, virtue and service to the flock and the Fatherland. Just don’t make a face!

Here is a typical example of such a libel, which was copied and posted (this uneducated, tongue-tied Baba Yaga cannot even write two words without errors on her own!) long ago and irrevocably crazy Parishioner, simply a classic:

Why do you think the religious obscurantists jumped up and down at the command of the Russian Orthodox Church? and shook little devil in hatred of educated people? It's simple - because a campaign was launched to justify the transfer of state property to thieving priests - the priests realized that society was not yet ready to lie down under obscurantists in robes! Well, everything is clear here - the business of priests is like that, they cut money for their money!

But I want to say a special “thank you” to the morel named “Parishioner”:

Listen, black granny, “investigations and denunciations” regarding theft by employees “ Isaac's Museum" - are schizophrenic just like everything that religious fanatics are trying to prove. Because normal people are not very concerned about questions huge salary (55 thousand rubles) for museum workers and whether the director of this museum steals or not!

What concerns us is this: state property is what belongs to all citizens of the Russian Federation(including religious idiots), but when real estate is owned by the greedy priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, then this is only THEIR sphere of business, and normal people access there is closed despite all the priests’ assurances that “for ordinary people nothing will change"! Yes, of course it won’t change, we all understand: Gundyaev needs a new watch - the current one, he already bought it for 320,000 bucks, the nanodust damaged it, gygygyy!

The most interesting paradox is that after the transfer of the IP to the Russian Orthodox Church, All cash flows will flow into the pockets of “deeply honest” priests, and even such a stupid “investigation” will be completely impossible. What do you think, grandma, can you find out and publish how much money the priests “working” in the IP will earn for their salary? It’s clear - you won’t answer, but I know the answer, gygygygy!

Resume. No, I do not have vain hopes - the decision to transfer the Council was clearly not made at the level of zero-Poltavchenko, and the victorious march of obscurantism will continue.

But there is also a positive thing - there are many of us, normal, educated people, and we need to resist religious obscurantism at all levels. We especially need to concentrate on keeping priests out of schools. If we miss this moment, then it will be a complete disaster!

PS. By the way. Are you aware that the Parishioner “...consults with her CONFESSIONAL on issues of maintaining her blog, including who to ban!” (c) How do you like this manual control? From my point of view - nutcase in its purest form and complete control of the “spiritual fathers” of the Russian Orthodox Church over such nutcases, which gives very broad prospects...

P.P.S. The Crimean and Simferopol diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church asked to transfer to them for free use 24 objects of the Tauric Chersonesos museum-reserve, which are located in Sevastopol. The application was submitted to the Federal Property Management Agency back in November last year (this became known only now), but the department rejected it “due to incompleteness of the documents.” Now representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church are going to submit another application.

That's how things are, little ones...

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Orthodox obscurantism February 3rd, 2016

I'll start from afar.
Back in 1352 Black Death reached the western borders of the Russian principalities - the city of Pskov. The disease was very contagious and transient - only three days from the moment of infection and death. The authorities and townspeople acted using standard means for that time - capturing and burning witches, building new churches, continuous prayers. Nothing helped. The worst thing happened - the Lord turned away from people for their sins. Panic began in the city.
The residents of the city, distraught with horror, sent ambassadors to Novgorod to Bishop Vasily with a request to come to them and beg God’s forgiveness. The bishop arrived in Pskov, walked around it with a religious procession and died on July 3, 1352 on the way to Novgorod. The Novgorodians placed the coffin with the body of their spiritual ruler in St. Sophia Cathedral, and the people flocked in droves for a final farewell. The tragic consequences were not long in coming: an epidemic broke out in the city, which then moved on, not sparing Moscow. And if in Pskov from a third to half of the inhabitants died, then in the largest city in the north, Belozersk, everyone died.

On February 7, in Lipetsk, with the blessing of Metropolitan Nikon of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, a religious procession against influenza will take place. On the same day, a bishop's service will take place at the Nativity Cathedral. Then believers with a cross, banners, icon Mother of God“Donskaya” and other shrines will pass from the Nativity Cathedral to the Church of All Saints who shone in the Russian land, in the 15th microdistrict.

Route procession agreed and approved by the Lipetsk administration. From cathedral Believers will go down Petrovsky Spusk, past the chapel of Peter and Paul, and will walk along Frunze and Nedelin streets to St. Nicholas Church, where a prayer service will take place. Then the procession, so as not to congest city highways, will continue along the secondary streets of Verkhnaya, Deputatskaya and others.

Then the pilgrims will walk along the Ring Road and go out onto Vodopyanova Street to the Church of All Saints. The Orthodox procession will end in the afternoon water-blessing prayer service in the temple. The convoy will be accompanied by traffic police vehicles throughout the entire route.

I understand perfectly well the inhabitants of ancient Pskov - when around you there are incurable disease half the people you know have died, it's appropriate to ask God for salvation souls Christianity has never been concerned with saving the body.
But what are people thinking about today? What is the Russian Orthodox Church thinking? At the height of the flu epidemic (2 people died in Lipetsk, 36 in St. Petersburg) organize a mass gathering of people kissing icons... Where are the Ministry of Health, Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision and all the other poor people looking?
Obscurantism!

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And the topic of the plague deserves a separate post. Especially in the context of painting, literature and my favorite urban planning.
Saint Roch is always depicted with his hem pulled up and a dog at his feet. Yes, he shows a plague bubo in his groin.

Fransisco Ribalta. San Roque.

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About true faith, obscurantists and « pop » – Andrey Muzolf, teacher at Kyiv Theological Seminary.

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– There is a certain negative background around Orthodoxy in society. Orthodoxy says unpleasant things: it points out sin, talks about punishment for violations, that is, it acts as a moral censor. This role irritates society. But in fact, Orthodoxy does not set itself such tasks. Please comment and explain what are the global goals and objectives of Orthodoxy?

– To say that Orthodoxy creates some kind of negative background around itself is the same as saying that hospitals and other medical institutions are a breeding ground for illness and death, because it is in them that, to a large extent, people get sick and die. But such a statement is absurd!

Orthodoxy does not create negativity around itself. It only testifies to the fact that humanity is sick with sin and warns of the consequences similar disease may lead. If a doctor tells us that we have health problems, we will not blame him for telling us something unpleasant. Yes, it is unpleasant for us to hear about our diseases, but otherwise, if we do not know about them, we will not be able to cure them.

Orthodoxy is a testimony that a person is sick, but has received hope for healing from the disease that he contracted in heaven, at the dawn of his existence. Having succumbed to the temptation of the devil - “a murderer from the beginning,” as the holy apostle and evangelist John the Theologian calls him, man fell away from God as the source of Eternal life and, as a result, began to die. According to St. Gregory Palamas, the primordial man died twice: the first time - spiritually - at the moment of committing a sin, and only after many years of life away from God, the person died a second time - physically. But despite the fact that man himself, by his own free will, left the Creator, God still comes to meet him. The Lord shows mercy and immeasurable love for the human race: He Himself becomes one of us in order to save humanity from the power of sin and death.

Based on this, the main task of Orthodoxy, according to one modern Christian writer, is for every Christian to become a “little Christ”, to be able to embody in his life the ideal to which Adam was called from the moment of his creation - to become not only an image , but also in the likeness of God. And this is only possible if a person remains in the Church of Christ, because only there is real reunion with God possible, that is, deification.

– People are happy to find something to reproach Orthodoxy for. They point to the “spots” and say, look at yourself, and then learn. How to be here? After all, Orthodoxy is about both holy and unholy people.

– Let’s give an ordinary life example: if a person does not trust this or that doctor, he will not reject the importance of all medicine entirely. A similar approach can be transferred to the church sphere: if we do not like this or that priest, this is not at all a reason to reject the importance of the Church and question the necessity of Its existence.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh once said about himself the following words: “I’m not a good person, but what I say about God is true.” If a person sincerely seeks the Lord, he will definitely find Him. If a person comes to the Church to find the Truth within its walls, the Truth will be revealed to him, because the Truth is Christ Himself. If a person tries to catch the Church and its ministers in something bad, then this means that this is his main goal, and not a spiritual quest at all.

A person’s external behavior is a kind of litmus test that reveals his inner world. And therefore, the abundance of gossip and slander addressed to the Church is, first of all, evidence that it is lies that fill the human heart, because, according to Holy Scripture, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). For Orthodox Christian slander has never been something horrific. One ascetic once said: “It doesn’t matter to me what other people think about me; All that matters to me is what my God thinks of me.”

And regarding the idea that the Church, which preaches the high ideal of holiness, itself should consist only of holy people, while avoiding everything unclean and vicious, the well-known Orthodox theologian L. Uspensky noted: “The Orthodox Church has never equated holiness and infallibility.” The Church is holy not because its members are holy, but because its Head, the Lord Jesus Christ, is holy. Interesting characteristic Given to the church by a Christian ascetic of the 4th century Reverend Ephraim Sirin: “The whole Church is the Church of the penitent... all of it is the Church of the perishing...”

Unlike sectarians, the Orthodox never claimed that they were holy, so to speak, a priori, only because they became a member of the Church, and therefore “automatically” chosen by God for Eternity. Eternity is not given to a person just like a “club card”: it must be earned, and this is not an easy matter, because the “Kingdom Heavenly force He is taken, and those who make the effort take him away” (Matthew 11:12). And only the Church can show a person the path that will lead us to eternal life in Christ.

– Why is Orthodoxy not fashionable? Why doesn't it keep up with the times? Protestants, for example, go door to door, campaign, invite people to cafes, throw parties... This is fashionable and fun. Why can’t Orthodoxy become a little “pop”, because then the people will flock?

– The famous English writer of the last century, G. K. Chesterton, wrote: “The Church always seems to be behind the times, when in fact it is timeless.” And the main reason why the Church has always been and will be timeless is that the Gospel - that Good News about the salvation of fallen man by God, which the Church reveals to each of us - has no boundaries, either temporal or spatial. The Gospel is intended for every person, regardless of his place of birth, material or social status.

If we want to change something in the Church, if we don’t like something about it, we must think about one elementary thing: the Church has existed for almost two thousand years and in its history it has already seen more than one hundred similar “reformers”, who tried to free her from something, to somehow “improve” her, to make her more accessible to the public. We should remember the words of the great teacher of the Church, St. John Chrysostom, who in one of his sermons said: “A person comes to the Church not to bring something into it; a person comes to the Church to take away with him nothing else and no one else but Christ Himself.”

Based on this, the main task of the Church is to sanctify man, and through man, the entire visible created world with the grace of the Holy Spirit. This is the mission of the Orthodox Church, this is its salt. And, in the words of Christ, “If the salt loses its strength, then with what will you make it salty? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out for people to trample underfoot” (Matthew 5:13).

- “The Orthodox are obscurantists, ignoramuses, aliens from the 10th century, generally backward people in all respects.” How can you comment on such statements addressed to Orthodox believers and priests?

– Despite such statements, the Orthodox Church has never encouraged ignorance. Saint Philaret of Moscow said: “The Faith of Christ is not at enmity with true knowledge, because it is not in league with ignorance.” We all know well that most great scientists, such as Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Leibniz, Descartes, Newton and many, many others, have always positioned themselves as deeply religious people. For example, the founder quantum physics, the German physicist of the last century M. Planck wrote: “Wherever and no matter how far we look, we find no contradictions between religion and natural science... Religion and natural science are not mutually exclusive... these two areas complement each other and are dependent on each other from a friend."

Another question: what exactly modern society does the concept of “obscurantism” mean the Orthodox? By the “obscurantism” of believers, we mean, first of all, that the Orthodox do not want to make concessions to the modern secular world. What concessions? First of all, recognize sin as the norm of human life.

Today in almost all media mass media what is extolled is something that half a century ago was considered something shameful and unnatural. Even the holy Apostle John the Theologian wrote that all the values ​​of the world come down to three main factors: the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life (see 1 John 2:16). That is why, in the words of another apostle, “friendship with the world is enmity with God” (James 4:4).
Hence, modern world and the Church point a person to completely opposite values: if the world demands to take everything from this life, to strive for ambition and vice, then the Church, on the contrary, calls its children to humility, meekness and piety. And it is in such piety that modern society, unfortunately, sees “obscurantism.”

– They say: “Orthodoxy is difficult to understand. Everything about it is complicated and incomprehensible to modern man. None of this is relevant today.” Please tell me if it is available Orthodox teaching to the average person? How can he comprehend the incomprehensible truth that philosophers and theologians have comprehended throughout their lives?

– It is impossible to understand Orthodoxy, if only because it is not at all philosophical concept. Orthodoxy can only be experienced on oneself, or rather, in oneself. Orthodoxy is not a theory, it is not a sum of some knowledge or philosophical conclusions. Orthodoxy is, first of all, life in Christ. And therefore His relevance does not depend on certain chronological boundaries. Orthodoxy will always be relevant, as long as this world still exists and until man reaches his highest goal - universal resurrection of the dead And Last Judgment Christ's.
Unlike the comprehension of this or that philosophical system, which requires some preliminary intellectual preparation, the general educational level is not important for the perception of Orthodoxy, because God does not look at a person’s intellect, but at his heart: “Blessed are pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matthew 5:8).
Philosophers of the pagan world tried to comprehend the truth of existence, neglecting the Creator of this existence. And it is quite understandable why they could never achieve their desired goal. None philosophical system could not give man what he was able to receive in the Church, namely, God Himself. That’s why the English writer G. K. Chesterton, already mentioned above, says that if such lights ancient philosophy Like Plato, Pythagoras or Aristotle, if they stood for even a minute in the light that comes from Christ, they would understand that the light of their own teachings is twilight.

Interviewed by Natalya Goroshkova