How famous people violated Article 148 of the Criminal Code

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

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, represented by judge Yekaterina Shoponyak, sentenced blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky (who caught Pokemon in the church) to 3.5 years conditionally. Judge Shoponyak found Sokolovsky guilty, among other things, because he "denies the existence of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad."

Shoponyak condemned Sokolovsky for “inciting hatred or enmity” (Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and seven episodes of insulting the feelings of believers (Criminal Code 148). We present to our readers the quotes of some famous Russians who were lucky to die before they fell into the hands of Judge Shoponyak.

Lev Tolstoy

Before renouncing the church and unity with the people, which was inexpressibly dear to me, I, by some indications doubting the correctness of the church, devoted several years to research theoretically and practically the doctrine of the church: theoretically, I reread everything I could about doctrine of the church, studied and critically analyzed dogmatic theology; in practice, he strictly followed, for more than a year, all the prescriptions of the church, observing all fasts and attending all church services. And I became convinced that the teaching of the church is theoretically an insidious and harmful lie, but in practice it is a collection of the most gross superstitions and witchcraft, which completely conceals the whole meaning of Christian teaching. One has only to read the missal and follow those rituals that are incessantly performed by the Orthodox clergy and are considered Christian worship, in order to see that all these rituals are nothing more than various methods of witchcraft, adapted to all possible cases of life. In order for a child, if he dies, to go to heaven, you need to have time to anoint him with oil and redeem him with the uttering of well-known words; in order for the postpartum woman to cease to be unclean, it is necessary to pronounce well-known spells; so that there is success in business or a quiet life in a new home, so that bread is born well, the drought stops, so that the journey is safe, in order to recover from an illness, in order to ease the situation of the deceased in the next world, for all this and a thousand other circumstances, there are known incantations, which the priest pronounces in a certain place and for a certain offering.

Anton Chekhov

I have long lost my faith and only look with bewilderment at every intelligent believer.

Alexander Herzen

Many people think that this pride gets in the way of believing. But why doesn't pride get in the way of learning? What can be more humble than the work of a thinker observing nature? He disappears as a person and becomes one passive vessel for denunciation, for attracting some law to consciousness. He knows how far from complete knowledge he is, and he says it. Consciousness of what we do not know is a kind of beginning of wisdom. Before the arrogant humiliation of the believer, not only does the pride of a worker of science mean nothing, but the pride of kings and military leaders is lost and disappears. And how could he not be proud - he knows the unconditional, unquestionable truth about God and about the world; he knows not only this, but also that light; he is humble, even shy from an excess of wealth, from confidence. This strange combination of unnatural pride with unnatural humility belongs to the general Christian view. That is why the Pope, “the king of kings,” always calls himself the slave of slaves. The religious view is love for truth, for work, the need to reveal oneself, the need to fight against lies and untruths, in a word, the activity is disinterested, incomprehensible. A religious person will not give a penny candle to God for nothing; these are all bills for him for a future illness, for a future harvest, and finally, for a future life.

Vissarion Belinsky

You have not noticed that Russia sees its salvation not in mysticism, not in asceticism, not in pietism, but in the successes of civilization, the enlightenment of humanity. She needs not sermons (she had heard them enough!), Not prayers (enough she repeated them!), common sense and justice, and strict, if possible, their implementation … These are the questions that Russia is anxiously busy with in its apathetic half-sleep! And at this time, the great writer, who with his marvelous artistic creations so powerfully contributed to the self-consciousness of Russia, giving her the opportunity to look at herself as if in a mirror, appears with a book in which, in the name of Christ and the Church, teaches the barbarian landowner to profit from the peasants more money, scolding them with "unwashed snouts"!

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

“My mind stubbornly refuses to recognize the truth of the dogmatic side of both Orthodoxy and all other Christian confessions. As a result of all my reasoning, I came to the conviction that there is no eternal life. But belief is one thing, and feeling and instinct are another. Denying eternal life, I at the same time with indignation reject the monstrous idea that my mother … has disappeared forever and that I will never have to tell her that after 23 years of separation, I still love her."

Dmitry Mendeleev

Faith cannot be left alone. She is the basis of religion, and any religion in your day is a gross and primitive superstition. Superstition is confidence not based on knowledge. Science fights superstition like light against darkness

Maksim Gorky

Not in God is reason, but in man. God is invented - and badly invented! - in order to strengthen the power of man over people, he is needed only by the man-master, and the working people he is an obvious enemy.

Vladimir Lenin

To talk about seeking God not in order to speak out against all devils and gods, against all ideological corpses (every god is a corpse - be it the cleanest, ideal, not sought after, but built god, all the same) - but to prefer the blue line to the yellow, this is a hundred times worse than not talking at all.

In the freest countries, in those countries where the call "to democracy, to the people, to the public and to science" is completely inappropriate - in such countries (America, Switzerland, etc.) the people and workers are stupid especially zealously with the idea of a clean, spiritual, built by God. Precisely because every religious idea, every idea of every god, every flirtation even with a god is an inexpressible abomination, especially tolerated (and often even benevolent) met by the democratic bourgeoisie - that is why it is the most dangerous abomination, the most heinous "infection." A million sins, dirty tricks, violence and physical infections are much more easily revealed by the crowd and therefore much less dangerous than the subtle, spiritual idea of God dressed up in the most elegant "ideological" costumes. A Catholic priest who corrupts girls (which I just happened to read about in a German newspaper) is much less dangerous for “democracy” specifically than a priest without a cassock, a priest without coarse religion, an ideological and democratic priest preaching the creation and creation of God. For the first priest is easy to expose, condemn and expel, and the second cannot be expelled so simply, it is 1000 times more difficult to expose him, not a single “fragile and pitifully shaky” man in the street will agree to “condemn” him.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

This is a church, a temple of God, Old women come here in the morning.

They made a picture, called it "God"

And they are waiting for this God to help.

Stupid too - the picture will not help them in any way.

Yuri Gagarin

The flight of man into space dealt a crushing blow to the churchmen. In the streams of letters coming to me, I read with satisfaction the confessions in which believers, under the impression of the achievements of science, renounced God, agreed that there is no God and everything associated with his name is fiction and nonsense

“The road to space. Notes of the USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut"

Varlam Shalamov

“I lost my faith in God a long time ago, at the age of six. And I am proud that from the age of six to sixty I did not seek his help either in Vologda, or in Moscow, or in Kolyma."

Ivan Pavlov,

physiologist, Nobel laureate

I … I myself am a rationalist to the marrow of my bones and finished with religion … I am the son of a priest, I grew up in a religious environment, however, when at the age of 15-16 I began to read different books and faced this question, I changed … god.

Vladimir Vernadsky

academician

He began to read the Gospel (in Anya's Slavonic). I've never read it. I read the entire Bible - with harsh criticism - in high school. I read all the time on the history of religion. But my negative attitude - for the present moment - to the meaning of philosophy extends to all forms of living religions.

Lev Landau

physicist, Nobel laureate.

There is practically no major physicist who is not an atheist. Of course, their atheism is not militant, but quietly gets along with the most benevolent attitude towards religion. Most of them do not even have the courage to openly admit that religion is contrary to science.

Religious elements are more common among middle-class physicists, and it is not surprising that their fame exceeds their scientific value.

Vitaly Ginzburg

physicist, Nobel laureate

The persistence of religious beliefs is also explained by the fact that religion can be a comfort, especially in the face of illness and death. I have no doubt, however, that religion, at least in modern forms, has the same fate as astrology. Unfortunately, it will take a long time to wait for a widespread rejection of religion.