FURTHER UPDATE: Holy smoke! Book-burning priest fined for illegal bonfire

[trotsky]

This is an additional update to the story here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218311477

Latest link: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2019/04/holy-smoke-book-burning-priest-fined-for-illegal-bonfire/

THE Rev Rafal Jarosiewicz, a Catholic priest who recently led a book-burning ceremony in Gdansk, Poland, has been fined by local authorities.

An anti-smog group has also reportedly complained to prosecutors about the illegal burning of books and other items in an open fire outside a church.

Jarosiewicz...published the apology late Tuesday on the Facebook page of the foundation he founded, Fundacja SMS Z Nieba. The page had earlier carried photos of the ritual in which items deemed to be “disturbing” to parishioners at Our Lady Mother of the Church and St Catherine of Sweden were consigned to the flames.

Those photos were swiftly removed after a huge backlash, but went viral on the Internet. Some pointed out that book-burning was a favourite pastime of the Nazis, and one person suggested that involving youngsters in the ritual was “psychological child abuse.”

[Voltaire2]

1. It's Bonfire of the Vanities time.

This asshat is channeling Girolamo Savonarola,

[uriel1972]

4. Yes and if I remember...

he challenged the Pope at the time as corrupt (one of the Borgias?) and met a sticky end or was it a charcoal one?

[Cartoonist]

2. It's a metaphor for Hell

The cleansing fire.

[guillaumeb]

3. Why did he not use a stove equipped with a catalytic converter?

Adding to the carbon overload is not good.

He missed his calling by a few centuries.