Priest slammed for destroying child’s ‘satanic’ Halloween pumpkin decorations
Halloween is just around the corner but the global tradition didn’t sit well with Father Jaromir Smejkal who believes it is a “satanic feast”.
Father Smejkal, from Kurdejov, a village in the Czech Republic, spotted a display of carved out pumpkins near his church and stamped all over them until they were entirely destroyed.
The children behind the carvings were devastated to discover their ruined inventions, and some were reportedly in tears.
They got to work carving new pumpkins and left them in the park, only for it to happen again the next night. The next day, the pumpkins were found to have once again been trashed.
The priest is part of the Roman Catholic Church of St John the Baptist, who sees Halloween as anathema to his religion.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/21/priest-sla...corations/
Halloween is just around the corner but the global tradition didn’t sit well with Father Jaromir Smejkal who believes it is a “satanic feast”.
Father Smejkal, from Kurdejov, a village in the Czech Republic, spotted a display of carved out pumpkins near his church and stamped all over them until they were entirely destroyed.
The children behind the carvings were devastated to discover their ruined inventions, and some were reportedly in tears.
They got to work carving new pumpkins and left them in the park, only for it to happen again the next night. The next day, the pumpkins were found to have once again been trashed.
The priest is part of the Roman Catholic Church of St John the Baptist, who sees Halloween as anathema to his religion.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/21/priest-sla...corations/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"