The unforgivable sins of the Russian Orthodox Church are news of obscurantism. "state-church obscurantism"
Religion is the opium of the people. The rightness of Lenin (as well as the author - Navalis, Marx and O. Bender) in this particular case was confirmed by the Orthodox Church. More precisely, its brightest representatives in one particular school. Although any religious schizophrenia could have manifested itself with the same success.
On April 12, 2012, for students of grade 1 A at the municipal educational institution "Vostryakovskaya Secondary School No. 3" it began in an unconventional way. During the “world around us” lesson, instead of stories about the Day of Cosmonautics and Yuri Gagarin, children began to be told about the death of Jesus Christ on Mount Golgotha and his resurrection from the dead, that the stars light up with the birth of the gods and on the day of Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem it is necessary to go to Church of JSC "ROC" with willow branches. The children spent the entire lesson coloring eggs, and the next day there was to be a competition for the best egg. During the lesson there were posters with pictures of Jesus, prayers before studying, and other nonsense. Nobody stubbornly told the children about Yuri Gagarin that day. After hearing my daughter’s story, the next day I went to talk to the teacher....
In response to my questions on what basis the teacher was engaged in church propaganda without the permission of her parents, she stated that she had not done anything like that, but was talking about traditions in Russia. When asked why she talked about the death of Jesus and his resurrection, she stated that she had not told anything like that, but my daughter said that she had. Then the teacher stated that she would not make excuses in the presence of the child and that everything she did was according to the program. Then I demanded to provide a program that described the lessons taught with my child. I was sent to the director and told that the conversation was over. I demanded to remove the icon from the class, the teacher told me that if I don’t like it, then I can transfer my child to another school. I explained to her that it would be easier for me to transfer the teacher to another school. After that, I went to the methodologist, who did not give me the program and referred me to the director.
According to the director’s version, based on the need to talk about “Pysanki,” the teacher began to talk about the death of Jesus Christ on Mount Golgotha and his resurrection. That the stars light up with the birth of the gods and on the day of Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem it is necessary to go to church with palm branches. After which the children spent the entire lesson coloring eggs. The primary school teacher could not justify her behavior with anything else, and at the same time she was very worried about how she could now talk about ancient Russian wooden buildings without mentioning the Old and New Testaments, if this directly intersects with the “red corner” of the Russian hut. And about the founders of Russian writing, this is generally impossible without the church.
They asked me to admit that my daughter has a problematic perception of religious topics and asked how, with such a beginning, I am going to continue sending my child to study at this school, they say that I am the only one in so many years at this school who has such a problematic perception of their activities and everything is for me suffering Orthodox parents will not adjust their children. And on April 12, the teacher’s projector broke down and she couldn’t show a film about Cosmonautics Day, and instead, high school students came and told 1st grade A students about such a wonderful national holiday, and for some reason only my daughter remembered only Golgotha (no high school students on that day the first-graders didn’t have one and no one told them about Yuri Gagarin).
After listening to all this nonsense, I asked to copy the program for me and show me the passages in the program about the crucifixion, resurrection, palm resurrection, and other religious propaganda. In response, they told me that the teacher was simply answering questions from Orthodox children. I explained to the director and teacher that they would have to write everything that they told me to write as a response to my incoming letter with an outgoing number and answer all my questions in it. He answered that teachers discredit themselves in the eyes of their students by telling anti-scientific stories with a poor retelling of the Bible, with which parents teach astronomy, botany, geology, physics, mathematics, music and other disciplines. And how they are going to continue teaching children with their authority undermined is not entirely clear to me.
That showing disrespect on April 12 to the builders and residents of the Domodedovo airfield is the height of disrespect for the people around them. That according to the Soviet and Russian tradition, April 12 is celebrated as Cosmonautics Day, and according to the Russian tradition, “International Aviation and Cosmonautics Day,” which is an international holiday and this holiday is approved by the UN. He said that any religious propaganda brings discord to the children's community in a secular educational institution, and I categorically object to such propaganda in relation to my children. I expressed surprise that teachers do not understand simple things, that having given the school the most expensive thing I have and having given them a credit of trust, I am going to continue to monitor the quality of their work and that the quality does not suit me and the teacher did not justify the given credit of trust, and now I will monitor her work more carefully.
This formulation of the question clearly did not suit them, it surprised and upset them (as I understood, they were going to do with the children something that they were not going to initiate their parents into). As a result of the conversation, the school director tried to smooth out the conflict, saying that even though the minister of the nearest church wanders around the school and gives icons to all classes, she will hold a meeting with 12 primary school teachers on the subject of what children do not need directly as living to tell about God and what will be explained to them, what needs to be said, they say that there are different people who believe in different things and there is one group of people (ROC) who believes in such and such, but their faith is not the only one, and on everything has a scientific explanation. But she will not remove the icon from the class, because... there are children who really need it.
This is a brief retelling of the meeting with a fair reduction and conveying the main meaning.
In general, I was dissatisfied with the meeting, although I saw the fear in these people about what they had done, apparently they thought that none of the parents would react to their prank. Therefore, I will write a letter with a notification of delivery addressed to the school director, demanding that icons and their photographs be removed from the classroom and corridors and that my child be protected from the influence of their religion. I will publish the letter on my page. Based on the results of the correspondence, the general parent meeting and the reaction to my appeals, I will publish a detailed article in my magazine and in the SKEPSIS magazine about how religion is being pushed into educational institutions...
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 - with 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 - the “Gundyaev apartment nanodust”, the blatant “seizures” by the Russian Orthodox Church of park areas of large cities for the construction of their religious buildings, 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 actively “perplexed and laughing” can be imprisoned for this very “bewilderment” in a zone under the new article of the Russian Federation for “insulting the feelings of believers,” and the President on church services are 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, intelligent 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 with a petty demon 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 under obscurantists in robes! Well, everything is clear here - the business of priests is like this, they cut money for their money!
But I want to say a special “thank you” to the morel named “Parishioner”:
Listen, black grandmother, “investigations and denunciations” regarding theft by employees of the St. Isaac’s Museum are just as schizophrenic as everything that religious fanatics are trying to prove. Because normal people don't really care 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 the real estate is owned by the greedy priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, then this is only THEIR sphere of business, and normal people are denied access there, despite all the assurances of the priests that “nothing will change for ordinary people” ! 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 the cash flows will flow into the pockets of the “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!
Summary. 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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Obscurantism of the Russian Orthodox Church. June 21st, 2018
In general, I’m always very sad when I read about the Russian Orthodox Church’s obscurantism. For obvious reasons. And once again, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church lost their minds and brought to light dense nonsense. "Cossacks", by the way, also did not stand aside.
“In the city of Livny, Oryol region, the conflict between representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the creator of the Slavic Garden park is gaining momentum. The park is a zone free of smoking and alcohol and conducive to a healthy lifestyle - walking and playing sports. However, the priests did not like it a children's sandbox in the shape of an Old Slavonic rune, and then the whole park."
Slavic runes and what?
Obscurantists from the Russian Orthodox Church don’t know that paganism, the Rodnovers, are not prohibited in Russia? We now do not have the Russian Empire, which blotted out and erased the memory of the ancient Slavic faith. Yes, I consider myself a Christian, but I have no hostility towards other beliefs and religions. Especially to the beliefs of our ancestors. This is part of our culture. Which is much older than Orthodoxy, by the way.
A very interesting Bishop Nektary is in touch:
“Recently, neo-pagan movements have intensified in the city of Livny. Many of our townspeople and residents of the area are not aware of the danger posed by the new movement “For a sober Russia and a healthy lifestyle.” Most townspeople do not know that in the park near the temple St. George the Victorious, religious pagan meetings take place, in which young people participate and priests come, initiating the youth of our city into pagan cults and culture,” says the bishop’s message.”
Nektary probably felt sad that these young people would not give him another car for 6 million rubles:
“Baptism is for us a choice that is historically and in fact irrevocable. And attempts to revise this choice, including by presenting arguments that seem to apologists to support interest in paganism, are based on the invention of pagan ideas about the surrounding reality,” noted Deputy Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media Vakhtang Kipshidze."
So what's the problem? Some choose baptism, some choose paganism, others choose some other beliefs. This is freedom of choice. Every person has every right to this.
And no one has the right to force him. I didn’t have a conscious choice; I was baptized as a baby. And I don't protest against this, on the contrary. Russia has truly been built for a thousand years under the influence of Christian culture. All of Europe, as we are accustomed to seeing it and see it, is the fruit of Christian culture. And this is my culture. But someone chose a different faith. This is his personal choice and path in life. The Church may not like this, but the Russian Orthodox Church has no right to engage in persecution and destruction. This is not Christianity, but some kind of raiding. And let's not remember the Middle Ages and the Crusades. This past.
Therefore, this whole story is ordinary, stupid obscurantism. The Russian Orthodox Church should be ashamed.
P.S.
“A few weeks after the message, the Cossacks came to the Slavic Garden and destroyed the sandbox in the form of a Slavic symbol.”
About true faith, obscurantists and « pop » – Andrey Muzolf, teacher at Kyiv Theological Seminary.
Photo: © Natalya Goroshkova/Orthodox Life
– 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, for the most part, 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 what consequences such a disease can lead to. 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 the following words about himself: “I am 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 at all a spiritual quest.
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 the Holy Scriptures, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). For an Orthodox Christian, slander has never been something terrifying. 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 famous 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. An interesting description of the Church was given by the Christian ascetic of the 4th century, St. Ephraim the Syrian: “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 of heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it by force” (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 in enmity with true knowledge, because it is not in alliance 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 of quantum physics, the German physicist of the last century M. Planck wrote: “Wherever and no matter how far we look, we do not find any 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.”
Another question: what exactly does modern society mean by the concept of “obscurantism” of 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, almost all the media extol what was considered something shameful and unnatural just half a century ago. 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).
Consequently, the 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 complex and incomprehensible to modern man. None of this is relevant today.” Please tell me, is Orthodox teaching accessible 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 a philosophical concept at all. 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 - the general resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment of Christ.
Unlike the comprehension of a particular 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 the 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. Not a single philosophical system could give a person what he was able to receive in the Church, namely, God Himself. That is why the English writer G. K. Chesterton, whom we have already mentioned above, says that if such lights of ancient philosophy as Plato, Pythagoras or Aristotle had stood for even a minute in the light that comes from Christ, they would have understood that the light of their own teachings - twilight.
Interviewed by Natalya Goroshkova
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-industrial 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"
...
“United Russia assured the leadership 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."
