Dorota Rabczewska, famed for an unabashed attitude when it comes to flaunting her flesh, and a string of hits, has been charged by Warsaw prosecutors with insulting religious feeling for comments she made in a television interview a year ago.
Better known by her stage name Doda, the 26-year-old singer ruffled conservative sentiment in Catholic Poland by explaining that she believed more in dinosaurs than the Bible because "it is hard to believe in something written by people who drank too much wine and smoked herbal cigarettes." This prompted furious Catholic groups to lodge complaints with the prosecutor's office.
"It is clear that Doda thinks that the Bible was written by drunkards and junkies," said Ryszard Nowak, chairman of the Committee for the Defence Against Sects, an organisation dedicated to protecting Christian values. "I believe that she committed a crime and offended the religious feelings of both Christians and Jews." If found guilty the pop star faces a two-year jail sentence or a hefty fine under Polish blasphemy laws.
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Hey POLAND, you know who else put people in prison or worse because he didn't like their views on religion. Yes, that's right, I'm sure you remember him now.
While a blasphemy law may seem to be something from the dark ages, that land of the dark ages Ireland has just introduced one.
She said some extremely rude things, but a jail sentence is ridiculous.
Assuming you don't know something else that wasn't mentioned in the article, your standards of "extremely rude" are incredibly low. You must find living among other people very difficult. =-O
you must remember this is in another culture, so <span>"extremely rude" to them is different from us.</span>
My point was, if just saying the people who wrote the bible drank too much wine and smoked pot is extremely rude, then what can you say about calling them malicious, filthy, paedophilic con-artists who intentionally wrote immoral bullshit in order to ruin the world and maximise suffering? In my opinion that would be extremely rude.
10/10 <span>Insolitus, very well put. And accepting ignorance that results in violence and hatred is unacceptable no matter what culture/race/ethnicity you are. How is it ok that this woman is to be imprisoned for her own opinions (which she is entitled to), but to hate homosexuals and all other religions than their own is ok because you are not to be offended by law? :P</span>
Makes me worried/sick/angry all at once. Life is precious people, don't waste it. :)
Some years ago I regularly spoke at a local pub with some Poles that worked over here in my country.
They found it totally normal to bash up some Jews and gays when they had something to celebrate and they had a few drinks. And when their soccerteam had lost a game, they also went after the booze and then they found it a very good pastime to go after the gays and the Jews.
But hey do not say one wrong word about Christianity to Poles, because that is something totally different...
The moral of the story… that drunk people are not the best people for morals :p
Can anyone prove that the Bible wasn't written by drunkards and junkies? Revelation certainly seems to have come from someone under the influence...
With the new testament any having 14,000 copies written over 60 years after christ death writen over 100 years, with in comparison plato having only 7 copies, about 1000 years afters plato death, , Aristotle, 5 copies 1400 years after the event and caesar 10 copies, 950 years after his life… some context for people
Typical E, always twisting things so they are about religion vs. atheism. :-P
You do realise your examples are not only from the past, but also totalitarian dictatorships or equivalent, while Poland is (supposed to be) a democracy in present day EU?
Lol, because more often then not in these discussions, that is the giant elephant in the room.
Of course these are the extreme end of the spectrum but they were suppose to be, it was to show that freedom of speech problems are not isolated to issues revolving around 'religious nut-jobs' as a lot of the people in this site seem to paint.
I am very grateful that i was born in a country where greater men then i have fought and died that i may vote and influence my government. I am also very grateful that i am in a country where i am free to speak up on issue such as these without the fear of imprisonment or execution. I of course do not agree that the women should be imprisoned for what she has said but i fear that the abuse of freedom of speech will not lead to a search for meaningful truth but instead, share a message, which are an ends to be spiteful, full of hatred and malicious.
Well, at least my outrage over this issue has nothing to do with religion or lack there of. And calling what the Polish lady said an "abuse of freedom of speech" is quite... odd.
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