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26 Jul, 2010

Satanism, palmistry and homosexuality hand in hand

Posted by: Michał In: so very Polish

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Some things leave me speechless. Like this one. What you see in this picture is a newly-designed logo for Nowy Sacz, a city in the south of Poland.

You may like it or not, but would you ever think it promotes Satanism and homosexuality?

Sadly, that’s exactly what the local pastoral ministry thinks. It expressed its outrage last week as in its representatives’ eyes the new logo – based on the human palm-shaped layout of Nowy Sacz’s old town, with the black spot denoting the location of the town hall – is a symbol of Satanism and palmistry. Neither of which are obviously supported by the Catholic Church. And neither is homosexuality, which allegedly is also promoted through this brightly-coloured sign, according to the same ministry.

The mayor is doing his best to apply common sense:

“An open right hand is the international symbol of goodwill and agreement, and the rainbow colouring of the hand is a sign of the town’s multiculturalism.”

Such ‘incidents’ and other ridiculous knee-jerk reactions are not exclusively Polish phenomena, but many people in Poland will tell you they are. They have their reasons to believe that – we, as a nation, for decades have been exposed to dodgy political deals, still largely don’t trust our leaders and public institutions and are generally unwilling to give them the benefit of the doubt.

It’ll take a long while to overcome this – if at all – but in the meantime it would be good if we learned not to find conspiracy theories in everything or at least not to publicise and blow out of proportion minor incidents, which can and do happen everywhere in the world.
Source: thenews.pl

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5 Responses to "Satanism, palmistry and homosexuality hand in hand"

1 | uncleNo Gravatar

July 28th, 2010 at 8:13 pm

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My God. no comment.

2 | SteveNo Gravatar

July 29th, 2010 at 9:23 am

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It is clearly a depiction of the hand of Christ with a nail mark in it. So that’s what Satanism is all about.

3 | The LondoneerNo Gravatar

August 2nd, 2010 at 11:03 pm

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I’m speechless – which is better than being absolutely bloody livid about the way that people in Boston, Lincs treat Polish migrants workers. My blood fairly boiled when I was up two weeks ago I can tell you – grrr!

4 | MichałNo Gravatar

August 2nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

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You must tell me/us more! Congratulations on your LBM interview btw.

5 | Gustaf Nordenskiold, sweNo Gravatar

January 13th, 2011 at 12:06 am

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Destroy heterosexual values, politics, religions, trading. Make queertheory the dominant rule of the world, we the gay brotherhod are your leaders – tell that to your kids. Force heteros to tell their kids about us – have sex in front of them. There is no gods only the queer-theory, help the homosexuals to reach power within the religions and to put down religious dominans. Jesus and the prophet is gay and sodomistic – they like dogs ;-) . Buy services and products from the gay brotherhod only. Concentrate the money (power) to the gay network, drain heterosexual economy – never buy from a heterosexual man. Eradicate heterosexuals economicaly an socialy – have no contacts and business with them. If someone ask about this, say no in thousends different ways – we dont want to inform the heterosexual enemy. Spred this word to political correct individs an other gays. Dont feel sad, you see, there is no gods only supreme gay power. Never feel love to others than gay. If you are gay study journalism – work with media, by controlling media we can indoctrinate the big mass of people. They who talk well about us should have benefits (for now) from the gay brotherhod, we bribe them! (if you ask me, I say – no, it wasnt me, its my enemy). If you are gay you know what this is otherwise its probably a spam to forget next minute. Act like a coward – act like a homosexual, be proud of it. Never admit our secret methods.

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