Poland fines pop star Doda for bashing Bible

[jimmy olsen]

Next time a well known lawyer here bashes America, remember this.

www.nydailynews.com/news/world/poland-fines-pop-star-doda-bashing-bible-article-1.1007191?localLinksEnabled=false

Poland fines pop star Doda for bashing Bible
It was written 'by someone drunk on wine and smoking some herbs,' she said in 2009 interview
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: Monday, January 16 2012, 5:25 PM
Updated: Monday, January 16 2012, 5:25 PM

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish court slapped a fine on a popular singer who bad-mouthed the Bible—the latest episode in which authorities grapple with religious defamation in a traditionally Catholic country that is growing increasingly secular.

Dorota Rabczewska, a singer who uses the stage name Doda, said in a 2009 interview that she doubted the Bible "because it's hard to believe in something that was written by someone drunk on wine and smoking some herbs."

A Warsaw court ordered her Monday to pay a fine of 5,000 zlotys ($1,450) for offending religious feelings.

The case comes months after another Polish court let off a death metal performer, Adam Darski, who tore a Bible during a 2007 performance. It deemed his act artistic expression.

Darski and Rabczewska once dated.

[Ideologue]

Er, wow.

Isn't Poland party to some EU law or other international law that prevents them from doing stupid shit like this?

[garbon]

That said, her statement was stupid.

[Ideologue]

Well, it was ignorant, in that the Bible has about fifty authors, I guess.

[garbon]

Also there being no evidence of herbs smoking while writing it.

[Ideologue]

I took that as metaphorical.  But then I took the single writer as metaphorical.  I don't think it's supposed to be a statement of fact.  You're being too literal.

[garbon]

I'm being too literal? You mean I'm actually paying attention to the few words that she chose?

[Ideologue]

I'm being too literal? You mean I'm actually paying attention to the few words that she chose?

Yeah.  If I were to say, "Paul must have been tripping acid on the road to Damascus," obviously I would not mean that literally; lysergic acid diethylamide was not invented until 1938.

[Neil]

Well, it was ignorant, in that the Bible has about fifty authors, I guess.

Isn't ignorance a national trait of the Poles?

[garbon]

I'm being too literal? You mean I'm actually paying attention to the few words that she chose?

Yeah.  If I were to say, "Paul must have been tripping acid on the road to Damascus," obviously I would not mean that literally; lysergic acid diethylamide was not invented until 1938.

Sure but you can pare it to the based that the people/person who wrote it was drunk/high. Otherwise what is the point of the comparison? Just to suggest that they were crazy? You might as just well to stick to the fact that it is nonsensical and contradictory.

[Ideologue]

I feel that's what she meant, yes, and was using language figuratively to illustrate her belief.  I'm sorry it didn't meet your standards of accuracy.

In any event, by God, why are we arguing about this?  The more important point is that Poles are basically not much better off than Iranians.

[garbon]

In any event, by God, why are we arguing about this?  The more important point is that Poles are basically not much better off than Iranians.

Because you tried to suggest that it wasn't a stupid statement.

[Ideologue]

It's not the dumbest thing I've ever heard, is all.

[garbon]

It's not the dumbest thing I've ever heard, is all.

I don't think I was saying that.

[Martinus]

Yes, Timmay, because my America bashing is always accompanied by a total praise of the situation in Poland, especially when it comes to religious issues.

You fucking cretin.