From Tolstoy’s formal religious extradition and his impact on Gandhi’s political creation – Russia is the most original and unique place on the planet to retrieve her religious overview from the own experience. She is the only human mental location, which dropped her own people into the precipice of atheism entirely and unconsciously relying on intuition instead on logical understanding. It has become the first ever moral-exchange institute much more durable than NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) attempting to define the same energy purely monetary or mixing the religion with frantic inhuman believing.

It is good to see that it is being stressed to today's children that it is good to be spiritual. You don't have to believe in God to be spiritual.

God grant you many years, Russia!! Many Years!! What a wonderful idea. In the USA the kids cannot pray or study their own or anybody's religion in public schools. They can however, study alternate sexual lifestyles, they can join gay-straight education clubs, girls and boys can get condoms, girls can go on the birth control pills and be sent for an abortion without parental consent and they can learn to drive a car (badly it appears) and they can get recruited into the military, but by golly they (or their teachers) better not even appear to say a prayer!!! They can get sued or expelled!! Or both!

I have experienced the downfall of Greek students’ morals in post high school level. The American culture demolishes all our values that were preserved five centuries through Turkish occupation. I am not a believer but religion defines a clear set of behavior rules and is for every soul a balsam, a hope, helps communication and cohesion. The new Russia started with mass production style baptisms, which were designed in the US as an instrument of world domination. Some of these religions {Scientologists, Mormons} were prohibited by court decisions that could be readily adopted by other countries. Freedom of religion yes, but only for the established ones, area by area, with the exception of the Jewish, that refers to the Christian people as only good for extermination…and proselytism is not allowed in “Israel” and Turkey. Official religion can only be one and it is the Greek or Russian Orthodox that gives an appropriate image to the state.

Is this the Third Step Back of the "Two Steps Back" [sic?] "compromise" Proudhon promoted and Lenin warned of? As an athest educated in "religious studies" as a child I learned the following - that Christianity and Islam were inventions of an Alexandrian named "Philo the Greek" 1650 years ago followed by his nephew 50 years later, respectively. Both - as is Judaism - are full of bigotory - each proclaiming that anyone that does not believe in "it" is "a leper" to be shunned and stoned to death. Each promotes Warfare and "blesses" each combatant side "in the name of the "one" "true god". [The verb - to bless - comes from Old French - means to injure.] In this manner all three are fundamentally anti-proletarian - for the "fodder of war" are working people - usually inexperienced youths. All are politically anti-Communist. All declare the adherents to their religious form as a "race apart" - that is Apartheid - the Anglican Catholic church and its adjuncts indeed were the main political and economic supporter of that regime in South Africa for so many years. Hinduism and Bhuddism promote humility and impoverishment as their main political tenets and as such are also anti-proletarian. The Tibetan form of Bhuddism is very feudalistic and openly anti- Communist. Should these factors be included within this scheme then maybe some good will come of it. Yet, it still is a very imbecilic appeasement of politically "reactionary" organisations. Is this the "Third Step Back"?? "What's To Be Done?" "Where To Begin?" should be studied in Schools in Russia Today instead. ///snowyone.

Religion or the lack of it in one’s life is a deeply personal matter which cannot be taught in a classroom curriculum. However, there are some related matters that can be taught: (1) An impartial examination of the evidence, for and against, for the existence of God; (2) Analysis of the scientific basis in human psychology which gives our species a proclivity for religion; (3) An understanding of the world’s major religious streams that are the expressions of this human proclivity, and an analysis of how they resemble and differ from each other; (4) An understanding of the history of religion, giving students an insight into the good things and the horrors that have been wrought through history in the name of both religion and atheism; (5) A strong re-enforcement of the fact that one does not need to be religious to be a good and ethical person, nor that one is necessary deluded or steeped in superstition just because one is religious. Any academic course needs to have aims that it intends to achieve. An aim of the study of religion in schools could be the providing of greater understanding of our common human condition, providing a greater understanding of both the past and present of the world, equipping students to make the wisest possible choices in their own lives, and above all, fostering genuine respect towards fellow human beings. We all live for only such a very short time, and life is full of problems already – it would be ridiculous to make lives even shorter or more miserable through some kind of futile enforcement of the notion that because of our religious orientations, we are holier than someone else.