Is it possible to watch TV and not go crazy? The battle of psychics, descending from the heaven of fire, the resurrection of the dead, the spirits of the ancestors, a century-old curse Mars in Capricorn, aliens and extraterrestrials, zombies vs werewolves, endless predictions of Nostradamus and Vanga — on all television channels, twenty four hours a day. It seems that the TV broadcasters don’t give us a chance.
For “there is no God” can get time. But in the religious field bloom with hundreds of flowers. Priests, shamans, imams, rabbis, Jehovah’s witnesses, Kabbalists, witches, astrologers, palmists, numerology, Eastern mysticism, esotericism, parapsychology, mediums and other was shared between a spiritual sphere, leaving no room for common sense. While atheists, especially famous figures, is recorded to the Satanists or servants of Shaitan.
From the public consciousness burned the idea that there are beliefs that lie outside of mysticism and belief in the supernatural. Or believe in God, or worship the devil. As if the third is not given.
Prayers, incantations, omens, horoscopes and predictions have become an integral part of the culture. Orthodox priests bless the tanks, carried out processions from drought and pray against epidemics of influenza. Shamans blame the economic crisis unburied mummy Princess Ukoka and beat the drum to stop the dollar to rise.
Psychics are involved in criminal investigations, fortune tellers, make economic forecasts, herbalists and healers set up clinics. In the news, as if incidentally, quoted in visions and predictions, in the talk show side by side sit the scholars and the clergy, who immediately equalized in the eyes of the public, and the radio between the news bulletins and weather forecasts are horoscopes.
Will not diminish the queue of witches, sorcerers and Gypsies hereditary, promising to bring back unfaithful husband or punish the opponent. Turn to him not only gullible simpleton. Clientele “elite” witch — MPs, politicians, bankers, actors, musicians, wives of oligarchs. For our dear guests all on the highest level: instead of blackened huts, luxury apartments, instead of a primitive ritual well-orchestrated show, and instead of a toothless old woman dressed Madame with a Mediterranean tan, a permanent participant of the rating of the TV show.
Those who can’t afford private visit, you can use the websites about black magic — readers are much more than women’s psychological journals. For example here’s one of the recipes “resorce” deterioration of love, friendship and business relations, that on one of these sites read a million attendees. Put in the envelope a photo of a “victim” during the waning moon to come at night to the cemetery to find the grave of a male, to leave the dead the fairing, then burn the pictures after a long spell.
Numerous victims “of resorce” certainly will not suffer, but the mental state of those who have decided to put the recipe into practice, not disturbing.
But practical magic — women’s frivolous passion. In men it’s more serious: the paranormal, alternative scientific theories, telekinesis and extrasensory as a weapon of the secret services, pseudolingulate performed by former pop pranksters, sensational discoveries like the popular theory about the three races of mankind: God’s creatures, a monkey and the descendants of children of aliens, in which they record the Jews.
Now it’s hard to believe that the circulation of the magazine “Science and life” when something has reached three million. Today popular scientific programs and lectures have to search the Internet, but the stories about flying saucers, zombies, ghosts, demons and the pill of immortality, which is kept secret from the rest of humanity of the powerful, can be seen in Prime time on the Central channels. One such story can be equated to a traumatic brain injury, permanent viewing leads to irreversible destructive consequences.
Nothing brings so much harm to the health of the nation, how much healing, bioenergetic therapy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, quackery, Eastern practices, religious superstition and “unique” medical miracle tools like patches and magic bracelets. People believe the media, journalists, “stars” touting the next miracle remedy (but for myself, prefer a good Western clinics), “reliable” stories and religious myths. And why wouldn’t they?
Stories about the latest discoveries, overturned our view of medicine, can be found only in specialized publications, but the charlatans-healers are on the Central TV channels of the country. Church edition of the multiply stories of miraculous healings with the help of fasting, icons and relics, and the Newspapers are full of articles on Holy water and recipes with soda, butter and garlic, which helps from all illnesses at once, including from a terminal.
And so prayer has become almost a certified tool. The Orthodox Church runs a staff of saints, from “gynaecologist” Hypatia Pechersk to “gastroenterologist” Basil of Novgorod, of which we may call a real medical consultation. Treatment winningly simply and economically: if there is no possibility to go on a pilgrimage, you can “talk” with the Holy from the comfort of home.
The desperation of patients — generally profitable business. The more that hospitals are not in every city, and the healers, mages and crying image is there in the rundown village. Sick of paying huge money for visits to the healers, which is diagnosed in eyes and heal the imposition of hands. Indeed, why do ultrasound and MRI, when there is the gift of seeing right through people? The crowd is incurable are the miraculous icons and decayed relics, venerating them, you can beat cancer at a terminal stage.
Desperate carry your money to quacks who prescribe them from serious illnesses or Holy water Tibetan herbs. Dying patients refused chemotherapy after books about fasting, studies on the resorption metastasis through meditation and numerous testimonies of healing of cancer with the help of the earth gathered at the grave of a priest. The government does not fight pseudocatalase and lieldienas. And why should she?
When the hospitals are closed and collapsed state medical program, better to let patients spend time on healers and bioenergetics, than to protest against the “optimization” of health care.
Church, declaring the salvation of souls, are also idle. She levels criticism on atheism, which sees its main enemy, and sly is struggling with science, but on magic and the occult blind eye, tacitly encouraging any belief in the supernatural. The Raven crow does not eat dog?
The clergy all the time to remind us of spirituality and the salvation of souls, but what kind of spirituality, when the circle of Magi, witches, psychics, spiritualists and healers? By the way, the Catholic Church, in order not to lose the enlightened flock, and recognized the evolutionary theory and the Big Bang theory. One of the branches of Protestantism began to weave into his teaching socialist ideas, the struggle for gender equality and human rights. A separate Christian movement reached a critical theology of Christianity and non-religious.
It is obvious that either the society begins to reform the Church, or the Church will deform the society. If she is so influential that turns into an ideological branch of government and does not intend to audit the teachings to adapt to new realities, so will drag the flock, and along the whole country, in the past. We are already being lobbied by the law of God, theology gets the status of a scientific specialty and questioned the scientific facts that contradict the Bible.
Today the number of churches and mosques equal to the number of schools, six times the number of hospitals and fifty times — the number of scientific organizations (which includes institutions, archives, libraries, museums, Botanical gardens, Observatory, etc.). Is it any wonder that a third of the population professes the geocentric system of the world, thinking if the sun revolves around the Earth? If it goes, we’ll be right back to the fact that the earth is flat and stands on an elephant, and a turtle.
You can, of course, to refer to the United States, in the degradation of the population is quite successfully competing with Russia. In the United States and religiosity are high, and the number of sects is huge, Yes, one of the Bible belt is worth. There’s also been trying to introduce in the educational program “the theory of intelligent design” (without which it and so 42% of Americans believe that God created man as he is, 10 000 years ago), however, the influence of scientists is sufficiently large to resist. And yet in the US, God of gods, and science — the scientific community.
No budget cuts do not relate to scientific developments, and the government gives millions in grants for new projects (on decoding neural network — even billions). We have the same Church on God’s hopes, but she is not plashet collecting, often through secular subsidiaries, subsidies and grants by the government to science and the arts. Scarce educational and science budgets in recent years just fading away, but that couldn’t kill poor funding, to achieve pseudo-science, ignorance and the Church seeking to dictate to the scientific field.
People don’t this before physicists were heroes of our society, now we are strangers, that Jehoshaphat, what researchers. No one really understands why do we need expensive science pending for decades with the results, when there is a cheap and effective magic.
That is to follow the scientific discoveries made in other countries. Be happy for the Russian scientists who achieve success in Western research projects.
To use foreign technology. Hope that the country will continue to be able to afford Western medical equipment. And believe that someday, when the Moon is in Capricorn, the spirits of the ancestors alone, and the gods in a good mood, we will fly the messengers of extraterrestrial civilizations and from all of us magicians, sorcerers, shamans, healers, herbalists, psychics, seers, mediums, priests and elders.
