Orthodoxy declared outlaw. Next will be the Motherland
Apparently, morally our authorities are ready to outlaw the slogan "Homeland or Death." Yes, yes, that same call with which they went to certain death (by the way, FOR US WITH YOU!), Our fathers and grandfathers, rising to the attack on enemy trenches, closing the embrasures of the German pillboxes with their bodies, rushing under Tanks with a bunch of grenades, ramming enemy planes. Or just with knives and sticks - which turned up at the moment.And how else would you order to understand the decision of the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow from 21 December 2010 of the year, according to which the slogan “Orthodoxy or Death” (like the slogan “Russia for Russians”) was officially recognized as extremist? The list of extremist materials, which publishes the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, has been supplemented with 40 points, incl. and a ban on the words "Orthodoxy or death."
Here immediately a question arises for this very Cheryomushkinsky court (and the “expertise” that he trusted) and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation: what is the antithesis of Orthodoxy and Death declared by this court (it turns out that it’s legal to create a “judicial precedent” ) "Extremist"? Who, with what sore imagination, saw in this slogan - “Orthodoxy or death” - extremism? As far as is known, Orthodoxy is the first and only religion in the world, which has put the Personality at the head of the world perception. The person associated with Christ, with God. And NEVER from the depths of Orthodoxy did not proceed calls to "march against the infidels" (as is often the case with other religions). Orthodoxy has asceticism (i.e., exclusively “torturing” oneself in order to achieve a state of prayer). Others have jihad.
Yes, Orthodoxy resisted the invasion of enemies with weapons in the hands - but no more. Otherwise, it conquered the space in an exclusively peaceful way - missionary work. How many indigenous people were the colonialists who came to North America destroyed (the legal right of which is now considered almost an example of the global law and order)? And who among the indigenous peoples of Russia disappeared over the centuries of “Russian colonization” from the map of our country?
But in order to embark on the path of Orthodoxy and stay on it, one must be consistent, not retreat from it. Orthodoxy is not a result, but a process, a life WAY of comprehending Orthodox truth, on which every moment a truly “Hamlet” question arises before a Christian - “to be or not to be”. And any compromise (especially a palliative) is flawed. How can the Orthodox resist the slogan "Orthodoxy or death" (well, not to mention the fact that death itself is not the crown of their life)? “Orthodoxy or death” for the Orthodox is after all a kind of symbol of faith.
And how does the ban of the Ministry of Justice look like against this background? So I want to say: "Guys, you misunderstood something, confused something." Well, considering the fact that we are 85% Russian population in the country (and in its embryo is Orthodox), it turns out that the Russian authorities have banned Orthodoxy. What is called, "arrived." And besides, the journalist Yana Amelina wonders in the pages of the Russian House magazine that “now there are thousands of our new martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the Orthodox faith, extremists? And the soldier Yevgeny Rodionov, who did not renounce Orthodoxy and was killed by Chechen gangsters, is also an extremist ?! ” I am afraid, I am afraid, that neither the prosecutor’s office nor the court has the answer to this question ...
But among our courts, not all are. In April of this year (that is, before the decision of the Cheryomushkinsky Court), another court of the capital, Lyublinsky, rejected the submission of the prosecutor's office about recognizing as an extremist material a T-shirt with the inscription “Orthodoxy or death!” And an image of Orthodox symbols with skulls. The court took into account a number of examinations, the author of one of them, the religious scholar Roman Lunkin, informed the Interfax-Religion correspondent. According to him, the monks interpreted this slogan as upholding Orthodoxy as a saving faith in opposition to the death of the soul without it, the readiness to consistently uphold their faith until death. As a well-known rock musician Konstantin Kinchev, who often appears in a T-shirt with the inscription “Orthodoxy or death!”, This motto for him is a repetition of the words of St. Theophan the Recluse, who once said: “I don’t know how, but I cannot escape without Orthodoxy” .
It remains to ask the Ministry of Justice (seemingly designed to improve the legal field of Russia): what was he guided by including the decision of the Cheryomushki court, and not the Lublin court, in his “black list”? Or did the case law prevailing in the Anglo-Saxon tradition triumph here (it’s easier for all courts and ministries to work with it) - contrary to the opinion of 85% of the population?
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