Ban dat Halloween

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Stealth Moose
Celebrating Halloween is banned in some Russian schools because it "breeds extremism", it's reported.

The Omsk education ministry has ordered headmasters in the south-western Siberian region to prevent any attempts to hold Halloween events at their schools, says the Russian government's official daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Any such events are not based on the "fundamental values contained in the culture of the peoples of Russia" and could lead to a rise in "extremist sentiment among children and young people", a ministry directive sent to schools reportedly states.

Members of the Russian Orthodox clergy are also known to object to Halloween. "It only seems to be a harmless and funny joke," warns Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin. "But the dark forces think otherwise: they'll play a joke on you, and you won't enjoy it at all." It's not the first festival to be branded un-Christian in Russia. In July 2013, Neptune Day - a popular sea and riverside festival among Russian children - was reportedly cancelled in south-western Voronezh region following complaints from a local priest.


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The most shocking thing about this and other recent events is that Max Brooks was right in World War Z; Russia is going towards a religious police state.

ArtificialGlory
It's Russia, dude. You shouldn't be too surprised at anything they do.

Stealth Moose
True, but it's interesting that in my lifetime, we went from the Cold War and imminent nuke tossing to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then into Uber Intolerant Religious State.

Quite the pendulum swing there.

ArtificialGlory
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
True, but it's interesting that in my lifetime, we went from the Cold War and imminent nuke tossing to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then into Uber Intolerant Religious State.

Quite the pendulum swing there.

Russia has been an "Uber Intolerant Religious State" since Ivan the Terrible.

Nemesis X
Reminds me of the schools here in the United States trying to ban Christmas so they don't offend anybody. One thing America and Russia have in common here is they're both full of crap.

Stealth Moose
And religious fundamentalists with high government presence.

Oliver North
Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Russia has been an "Uber Intolerant Religious State" since Ivan the Terrible.

maybe:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2445683/Could-Josef-Stalin-be-made-a-saint.html

depends on what you mean by "religion"

ArtificialGlory
Originally posted by Oliver North
maybe:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2445683/Could-Josef-Stalin-be-made-a-saint.html

depends on what you mean by "religion"

Yea, that was one of the meanings of "religion."

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