[fso301]

Religion? Try learning a bit of history. The Old Believers split from the Orthodox church in a dispute about the spelling of Jesus’s name and the position of the fingers during the sign of the cross. Its a sect as squirlly as Heavens Gate.

Try not revising it either. The article says the family fled into the wilderness to escape the Red Terror.

Many people suffered through communism without returning to the stone age.

Tens of millions didn't.

The old man and his wife were crazy and they raised a brood of kids in the Neolithic.

How can you call someone crazy that survived for over 40 years under conditions you, or I wouldn't last a season in?

[muir_redwoods]

If you admire the choice this asshat made, more power to you. Old Believers are some of the craziest loons in the realm of religion; not much different from scientologists in terms of connection to reality. His behavior of moving into the woods of Siberia is perfectly consistent with his hundred year old grudge about 900 lbs of potatoes someone failed to donate to his church. This is a story about a profoundly mentally ill man and his equally ill family.