re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Also in Poland, the government is trying two cases of “offending religion” (blasphemy, max ten year sentence): One of a metal musician who displayed a photograph of Virgin Mary with a shoe on her face, and three women who promoted a Black Madonna with a rainbow halo (the rainbow being the disrespect because Teh Geyh).

State-sanctioned “cancel culture”?

I noticed when we when to Krakow in 2016 that Polish TV was playing endless programs, films and documentaries on great Polish feats of arms from Napoleonic times to the wars with Soviet Russia, all stressing the heroic sacrifices of the Polish people.

They are taking a page from the post-Cold War playbook of fusing nationalism with religious identity to create a theocratic state.