Poland Joining the Modern World
December 17, 2010 at 12:09 am
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2010 at 12:44 am by Minimalist.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/world/...oland.html
Maybe that's the problem with America. We need some real freedom instead of the sloganeering that we get from politicians.
Quote:Poland is still an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nation, still conservative and still religious, especially when compared with its European neighbors. But supporters and critics of the Roman Catholic Church all acknowledge that the society is changing. They agree that church representatives in Poland have lost authority and credibility, and that much of the population is moving toward a more secular view of life, one with a greater separation between church and state, and a rejection of church mandates on individual morality.
“We are considered the European museum of Catholicism, but let me tell you we are no longer,” said Szymon Holownia, program director for Religia TV, a relatively new station that aims to convince Poles that faith can and should be relevant in modern life with programs like a cooking show led by a nun. “The relationship between faith and state is changing; it is changing dramatically in Poland,” Mr. Holownia said. “It is really huge.”
“Twenty years of freedom and religion is evaporating,” he said. “This is the crisis of Christianity in Poland.”
Maybe that's the problem with America. We need some real freedom instead of the sloganeering that we get from politicians.
