Nothing is more potentially disturbing than a Soviet person who’d spent a significant chunk of his or her life studying “Scientific Atheism” but then suddenly found religion.
“I’ve been listening to this series of lectures,” my aunt tells me, “where a scholar proves scientifically that Orthodox Christianity is vastly superior to all other religions.”
“Aunt, the only thing that might somewhat redeem this statement is if you tell me that the scholar in question is an atheist,” I respond.
“No, he’s an Orthodox Christian,” she says earnestly.
“Isn’t that a little suspect?”
“Oh no, he uses a scientific method,” my aunt explains. “For instance, everybody thinks that Buddhists are so nice, but did you know that they engage in human sacrifices?”
After this statement, all I can do is withdraw myself from the conversation.
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