Smart people, even if they are atheists (and this combination is quite rare), still refrain from profanity.So, just in case.And it's not just the fear of possible punishment of the Almighty.Every cultured person is committed to ensuring that wherever possible not to offend others, among which there are sincere believers.
Laws are not written for smart people who already know most of the time what to do, so as not to cause moral or material damage to others.It is quite natural desire to mentally healthy member of society to live honestly, not to steal, not to kill, not to blaspheme.It is the nature of human communication.However, there are, unfortunately, examples of different attitude to public morality, when the intervention of law enforcement agencies is essential.
In prerevolutionary Russian Orthodoxy was the state religion, but at the same time created a tolerant attitude towards people of other faiths, which constitute a significant part of the population of the empire.Cases of aggressive xenophobia took place, but the authorities did their best to stop them.At the same time no one, regardless of the professed denomination are not allowed to blaspheme.This meant the inadmissibility of the irreverent use of God's name and public expression of disrespect to religious dogmas.
During large-scale social change that followed the October Revolution of 1917, actively flouted ancestral values, developed for centuries.Children were forced to renounce their parents, brother against brother went, and people were forced to blaspheme.This was done in order to create a new religion, which had its holy relics in a mausoleum on Red Square, its "Red Easter" - May Day, Christmas and analogue - the anniversary of the Great Revolution on 7 November.Insulting, albeit unintentional, new relics attracted punishment much more severe than the punishment for blasphemy in the past.Clues could be a newspaper, used for hygienic purposes (with pipifaksom also had problems), if it was printed a portrait of someone from the leaders.
After 1991, freedom of conscience in Russia has become a reality.The people, unaccustomed to grace massively become enchurched.Moreover, it has become fashionable to go to church and politics in Soviet times actively promote atheism began to flourish and clumsily baptized before the television cameras.Such a spectacle is not added to them authority, nasty as their consequences become relevant to the church as a public authority serving the power that is fundamentally wrong.
Freedom man of low culture and underdeveloped understood as permissiveness.Organizers of unsanctioned rallies and other protests, portraying the indomitable determination to confront the "tyranny of the authorities", a few cunning.They know perfectly well that severe punishment would not, except that the fine which they can easily afford.At least until then, until it is broken some serious article of the Criminal Code.
Participants pop group «Pussy Riot» apparently, originally did not intend to blaspheme.It turned out as something of itself, thoughtlessly.However, the faithful gathered at the church service, took them scandalous dances and muffled cries at the altar of the Temple of Christ the Savior as an insult to their religious feelings.And not only they, but the Orthodox around the world have responded to this act, to the surprise of "liberal society", rather sharply.
For «Pussy Riot» stood up many public organizations and individual celebrity.They demanded the release, and immediately.In sentencing advocates of Western values espied violation of human rights to protest.
obvious that in this case there is typical for this time one-sided view of the situation.Taking care of the rights of protesters, advocates of freedom somehow overlooked the fact that there are other people who believe, and they are the majority.And they have their own ideas about what is good and what is bad.
The blasphemy law in Russia is intended to protect the rights of those who profess the values of our traditional multi-ethnic and multi-confessional society.First of all it concerns the Orthodox community, which, in spite of their large number, are rare nowadays tolerance for vandalism.We tried to «Pussy Riot» sing-dance in a mosque ...
