Orthodox assholes
A man might be jailed in Russia for saying ‘there is no God’ online
He says he is “in shock” to have been prosecuted under the religious protection law passed several years ago.
The law makes it illegal to “insult the feelings of believers”, and has been criticised as a symbol of too strong a bond between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin.
Speaking to the Times, Krasnov said: “Yury Gargarin said ‘I travelled into space, and I did not see God there’,” referring to a quote attributed to the first person to travel to space.
“And now I’m being charged with insulting the feelings of religious believers? This is an absurd farce. I was in shock when I heard I was being charged.”
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/09/a-m...od-online/
A man might be jailed in Russia for saying ‘there is no God’ online
He says he is “in shock” to have been prosecuted under the religious protection law passed several years ago.
The law makes it illegal to “insult the feelings of believers”, and has been criticised as a symbol of too strong a bond between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin.
Speaking to the Times, Krasnov said: “Yury Gargarin said ‘I travelled into space, and I did not see God there’,” referring to a quote attributed to the first person to travel to space.
“And now I’m being charged with insulting the feelings of religious believers? This is an absurd farce. I was in shock when I heard I was being charged.”
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/09/a-m...od-online/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
