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Russia moves to ban witchcraft and fortune-telling ads
Published: 05 October, 2010, 16:59
Edited: 18 October, 2010, 11:52
TAGS: Health, Religion, Thrills&Spills, Mass media
Russian witches, magicians, psychics, fortune tellers and faith healers will now have to think of a new way to attract customers: a law is planned to ban advertisements of their services in the media.
The State Duma has approved the first reading of the correction to the Law on Advertising, which forbids users of supernatural powers of all kinds to promote their services in the mass media. At present, such advertisements, ranging from promises to bring back an unfaithful husband or break a hex, to suggestions of curing all illnesses, telling the future, and bringing luck in business are abundant in the printed press and on TV.
Besides banning the “mystical” advertisements, the draft bill has barred the promotion of healers who claim to use any unconventional or occult methods in their work, with exception made only for those healers who have obtained a valid state license for their activities.
The members of parliament are concerned about the safety of Russian citizens, who believe in the supernatural as this can easily make them prey to conmen.
“Our citizens, who trust the promises of magicians and wizards, frequently become the victims of ordinary conmen,” Evgeny Fedorov, head of the State Duma Committee on the Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship, told RIA Novosti news agency. “That is why I think it necessary to limit the flow of information about them.”
The Russian Orthodox Church has upheld the draft bill with both hands.
“No civilized country can allow such a rampancy of self-advertising ‘magicians’ and ‘miracle-workers’”, the Moscow Patriarchate said in a public statement.
The Church did not completely rule out the possession of certain healing powers by certain people, but said that their qualification and methods of work needed to be confirmed by science.
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Lulz at the church outlawing themselves. I'd love to see them prove their own rites effective with science. "What? Eating this cookie doesn't really help me live longer or go to Heaven? But you told me it was Jesus flesh... Does that make me a cannibal?" Yeah... It's the witches that must be crazy.
Are they going to ban mother's intuition? Intuition is totally natural and nothing supernatural. Yes there are people who advirtise falsely or take advantage but what do you think politicians are doing" They lie and take advantage of people and steal their money all the time. This is an old fashion witch hunt and it's evil. Intituition, dreams , healing hands are completely natural. More rape of the natural world. It's true- women usually are more intuitive than men- so let start killing women en masse. This is insanity. Everybody is psychic and can learn to get better at it. It's a natural part of being human.