Lessons of atheism with Alexander Nevzorov

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Today it is impossible, perhaps, to find a more thorough criticism of religion in general and the Russian Orthodox Church in particular than Alexander Nevzorov. He has no equal in his ability to give accurate and accurate characteristics of the church, filled with sarcasm. He was so successful in this that among the employees of ZAO ROC there is an unspoken ban on joint participation with Nevzorov in any discussions, programs, etc.

Recently, Alexander Nevzorov has his own channel on Youtube, where he conducts his "Lessons of Atheism" - a series of programs dedicated to the church, events related to religion. Text versions of "Lessons" can be found on the Nezvorov website.

Once, in an interview with My District, Nezvorov hinted that his criticism of the church was of a custom-made nature:

Religious madmen eagerly seized on this, and now in any disputes, one has only to mention Nevzorov, they will certainly poke their opponent with their nose into this, as they think, shameful, discrediting fact.

There is nothing special in Nevzorov's admission that his "Lessons of Atheism" appeared due to the fact that someone asked him about it. Alexander Glebovich has always said that he does not do politics and journalism for free. It is naive to assume that his interest in the Russian Orthodox Church arose just like that.

The topic of "shooting in the trenches" was raised in an interview with the radio station "Echo of Moscow". When the presenter asked him who asked to shoot in the Russian Orthodox Church, Nezvorov did not name names, but said the following:

Perhaps some people who share Nevzorov's views on religion are jarred by the fact that his anticlerical activities are of a custom-made nature. But let's get back to the arguments and facts that Alexander Glebovich uses in his criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The main provisions of Nezvorov's church criticism are as follows:

• The ROC is a structure that is parasitic in its essence (it exists at the expense of state taxes, while it itself does not pay taxes from its trade in church attributes in churches). And the church can and should be forced to support itself, and not at the expense of taxpayers:
• The ROC at all times could not exist otherwise than in a close alliance with the state. Faith in Christ was strengthened in tsarist Russia In modern Russia, this function is fulfilled by the law on insulting the feelings of believers.

• Church and science are incompatible things. World history knows many examples of how the Church hindered the development of scientific knowledge, persecuted scientists, inventors

• You cannot find a more inhuman and cruel phenomenon than religion. The "peaceful" religion that preaches humility and obedience has repeatedly demonstrated its true face, the face of intolerance and hatred of dissidents. Take, for example, the same scholars who were tortured to death in batches in church cellars, and then burned together with "seditious" books. You can also recall the textbook witch-hunt in the Middle Ages, a real "genocide of beauty", when all beautiful young women were declared witches and went to the fire - for the glory of Christ.
• The role of the church in the development of Russian culture is nothing more than a myth.

• The overwhelming majority of examples of the demonstration of faith are nothing more than pretense, a manifestation not of faith as such, but of ideology. You cannot find more striking examples of atheism than the priests themselves. Since among the priests, it is worth highlighting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Gundyaev, who prefers to entrust his life to the Federal Security Service than to some god:

Let's summarize. So, there is a mysterious person in the ruling elite who, due to the lack of talent and ability to oratory, as well as the desire to remain unknown, asked, apparently not on a gratuitous basis, Alexander Nevzorov "to sit in a trench, shoot at the church." Nevzorov, being not just a talented publicist, but also a very smart person, achieved that the priests began to fear him more than the devil.

How to relate to such "shooting", everyone decides for himself. For some, the reasons that prompted Nevzorov to wage an information war against clericalism and obscurantism are important; for someone, it is not the motives of Alexander Glebovich that are of great value, but the arguments that he cites: his arguments are based on facts, and facts, as they say in one famous novel, a stubborn thing. As an apologist for atheism, Nevzorov in his "Lessons of Atheism" dissects the ROC with special care and scrupulousness. And, if the results of this dissection helped turn at least one "servant of God" into a sane person, then it is worth saying only thanks to that mysterious customer of the shooting at the Russian Orthodox Church.