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February 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

We can start by Hugging
We can start by Hugging

Our best effort to ignore the winter olympics at Sochi, Russia are not working as well as we thought they will, first there was the fifth olympic ring that did not “open” up as the others did, just to show the good people of the world that no matter how hard you try, both in the natural world as well as the technological one, we are not living in an homogeneity like universe , meaning some things are different to others – which makes life better – not worst.

And now it looks like President Putin, who is (now) famous for his anti-gay opinions (and sadly, actions) is trying to find a way out of the homophobe closet he built for himself. It appears as though the highly involved president of Russia visited a night club in the Olympic village yesterday and paid compliments to a openly gay gold medal winer from the Netherlands.

Even more surprising is the fact that Russia and the Netherlands have been on a thin line of tension in the last couple of months, with the open minded and liberal Dutch stretching the diplomatically possible to a fine limit, with an arrest of a Russian diplomat on its soil and an incident with a Dutch vessel on Russia’s water.

The Global public scorn at the aggressive antigay actions in Russia could have led Putin to change his mind about this issue, and what better way to show it then by hugging an openly gay Dutch gold winer. As long as Russians come back to their senses and stop this middle ages behavior it does not really matter what brings the change – there is some light in the end of this tunnel.

 

Sochi Ring Does not Open
Sochi Ring Does not Open

Filed Under: Atheism blog, Russia Tagged With: Dutch Gay Gold Winer Sochi, Putin anti gay, Russia gay, Russia homophobe, Sochi gay

Russia, Punk and the Devil

March 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Yes, This is 2012 and Yes - The Devil is Still here

When the punk group “pussy riot” (which you can already understand is a girl only group) surprised the audience of Moscow’s central church with a free short concert the leaders of the church (as well as the old-new Russian president Mr. Putin) was not amused, not amused at all.

“The devil work”, yes, you did not mistake the words here, for wherever god is the devil is always around, and that is not a joke at all. As long as you believe that there is a god there are also all those other biblical characters around him/her/it, as it happens the devil is one of the central figures to the story of god, so it makes perfect sense that this soft of spontaneous act was spurred by the devil himself.

Once again we can see how these small little words can lead a traditionalist to think this is just an expression, while a believer takes it literally. However the speaker did not mean it as a way of speaking, to suggest that the ill mannered behavior of these artists, not invited and not welcome in the church was a bad thing (where bad = the devil), he just meant that it was the devil who was trying to derail the usual church ceremony.

This is a small indication of what it is like to live in Russia 2012, where feminist groups sing foul songs of God and Vladimir Putin are placed behind bars and could end up in jail for 7 (seven!) years for singing an uninvited offensive song and where religion had soared to the level of importance that politics have, from being oppressed only a few decades ago. Just to show you that the men of god will take everything you give them – and they will take it fast.

7 Years in Prison for Singing?

Filed Under: Catholic Church, Russia Tagged With: Moscow Church Punk Group, Pussy Riot, Russia punk group, The Devil's Work