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Stormwind@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 18 hours ago

Can a giant Madonna help slow secularization in Poland?

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Can a giant Madonna help slow secularization in Poland?

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Stormwind@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 18 hours ago
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Europe's largest statue of the Virgin Mary will be inaugurated on Saturday in the Polish village of Konotopie. What will the monument mean for the village it towers over — and for the Catholic faith in Poland?
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    Will it? Life is a mystery.

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
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    That is the thing really religious people do not understand: Religion is something you believe. But if you lose that believe and if you have doubt that this religion is really the one, no giant statue is bringing that back. If you already believe, a giant statue of your god or related person might be quite awesome

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    That looks nothing like Madonna which is bad because she’s still alive.

  • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip
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    people moving away from religion aren’t doing it because of a lack of statues, morons

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      In fact, I think some people are going to move away faster because of wasteful, megalomaniac projects like this! If you’re already thinking that the church is pretty fucked up as an organisation, giant statues make it worse.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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        Yeah, my first thought was “how much charity this could have paid for”

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    Do we need to slow secularization in Poland?

  • magikmw@piefed.social
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    That’s an antenna mast. Didn’t get a permit so build this religious “work of art” and still got the antenna mast.

  • Archimedes@sh.itjust.works
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    🎵 Like a virgin… 🎵

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
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      Screwed for the very first time!

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    18 hours ago

    Another example of: Every question in a headline can be answered no.

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      Betteridge’s law of headlines

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    Tacky piece of shit

    • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz
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      wouldn’t be the first one

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    Wasn’t there something about idols and graven images on those tablets Moses got from the bush?

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      Maybe it was on the other tablet…

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      Catholicism (the majority denomination of Christianity in Poland by far) is actually pretty easy-going about what counts as idolatry. You can have a lot of depictions of important figures, which is apparent in basically every Catholic church having such statues

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        Yeah, the entire Vatican shows that

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      I think they have to be gold, tho. Like that one zealots made of Trump.

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        The man is literally a golden calf

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    Sure, if it falls down on a large enough group of atheist

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    Surely a giant Kylie would be more effective.

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    Some rich dummy decided how to spend own money, ok, fair, let him do whatever. It’s his private money.

    Some tv asked, if that made this or other town famous… nah, many do avoid these places of dark ages and shithole, while some do make pilgrimages for pike of concrete spending money around. Show must go on.

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    No

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