The priest was quoted as saying, "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."
Priest: "Today was not the greatest, day I've ever known."
He said he would have acted differently had he known they were carved by children.
Because children can have a bit of satanism, as a treat?
"Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of 'Halloween' placed in front of our sacred grounds," he wrote.
"I acted according to my faith and duty to be a father and protector of the children entrusted to me and removed these symbols," said Father Smejkal, parish priest at the Roman Catholic Church of St John the Baptist.
"Think of the children" is almost always the excuse fragile men use to crack down on their personal moral panic.
I think this priest gave those kids a very useful lesson on the clergy that they're going to remember for their whole lives. Well done!
He said he would have acted differently had he known they were carved by children.
... and he would've acted exactly the same if he knew he wouldn't be caught at it.
That is a lesson for everyone.
IDK, they're not a bad band if you ask me.
The village priest: Billie Corgan.
I saw them in concert a few years ago, and it was a super fun show.
Billie Corgan was all anti establishment, emo, appealing to the social outcasts in the 90s. Now he owns a pro wrestling league. It's difficult to separate the at from the artist.
But necessary. What are we going to do, stop listening to the Thriller?
It's literally a plant with holes in it. I'm pretty sure the tradition never even had anything to do with satan.
Carving vegetables began in Ireland and was brought to the United States. It was bases on a folk tale.The Legend of 'Stingy Jack'
According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.
Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with it ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then, simply “Jack O’Lantern.”
Wow. That was a neat story. Thanks for sharing!
Trick or Treating is also not American.
An early precursor to trick-or-treating is believed to be "souling," the tradition of going door to door asking for "soul cakes," a treat similar to biscuits, in exchange for prayers for the dead in purgatory. It was done the night before All Souls Day on November 1.
While Americans are thought to have created Halloween, it was fully a Northern European thing until the Irish brought it to the United States. It lingered in the U.S. for decades before it began to take hold again world wide post internet.
The real moral of the story here is that the devil is apparently a gullible jackass, lmao. He'd never survive the prank youtube channels of the modern day.
The Irish have some awesome legends, though. The wolfwalkers are my favorite! They also made the legend into a movie that is up there with Brother Bear and the Lion King. Highly recommend it https://youtu.be/d_Z_tybgPgg?feature=shared
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Right, it has to do with a non-Christian religion, but to fundamentalists it just reduces down to satanism because they literally can't concieve of people not buying into their narrow-minded belief structure.
Irish Catholics associated it with a local myth. The priest is even more wrong once you hear the story.
Many Christians believe that all religions that don’t worship Christ are worshipping false idols. Which is about as worse as worshipping satan to them.
„My faith is unwavering! Nothing can shaken my love in God and Jesus Christ! Absolutely nothing will!“
Gets triggered by a fucking plant.
The world is a vampire.
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What a piece of shit.
"But try to remember that my duty as a figure of authority and a priest is to protect children and families from hidden evil," he went on.
The fuckin' irony.
Look, mom, our country is on BBC! I love that we are one of the most atheist countries in the world, but it's still the priest who gets us there. 😅
Look, mom, the next village over is on BBC!
This is absolutely hilarious to me, never would've expected something like it
Should've been smiling politely instead.
No he's not.
I would also like to apologize for Billy Corgan and company
What about Nickelback?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Father Jaromir Smejkal destroyed the carved pumpkins on two successive days in a park in Kurdejov, a village in the wine-making region of South Moravia.
"Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of 'Halloween' placed in front of our sacred grounds," he wrote.
He added that in his view the modern tradition of Halloween had been conceived in a "heathen, contemporary world", as a counterbalance to the Catholic feast of All Souls' Day.
Breclavsky Denik newspaper, which first reported the story, said the local children had carved the pumpkins as part of Halloween festivities organised by the village.
However, some traditional religious feasts - including All Souls' Day - remain popular, and are marked by both believers and atheists alike.
Some Czechs complain their traditions are being eroded by highly commercialised imports from the West, with Halloween being a prime example.
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the local children had carved the pumpkins as part of Halloween festivities organised by the village.
Dude smashed up some pumpkins carved by children. ☹️
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