Now, on state television you see all the government bureaucrats crossing themselves. It's open propaganda for religion. Even in official events like the president's speech to the Federation Council, the patriarch sits up front and the other religious leaders have to sit in the back. It's a way of showing that all the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. |
Religion divides people. The task of Soviet society was to carry out a policy that made it as improper to talk about religion as about salaries or syphilitics. Every religion makes a claim to have the absolute truth, and when you have the truth, you can do anything, including kill. |