I remember when in the 90’s, Osho International Foundation signed the first publishing agreements in Poland, a large publishing house withdrew their first Osho book on meditation from the market and told me that this was done owing to direct pressure from the Catholic Church. It was Poland’s best opening in 30 years, according to the Association of Polish Filmmakers.īooks by Osho are amongst the most popular self-help and inspirational books published in Poland and have been closely and fearfully watched by the Catholic Church for years. ‘Kler’ – the Polish word for clergy – attracted over 935,000 viewers on the first weekend in October 2018. Clearly, the public is turning against the church a Polish feature film about abuse by Catholic priests is setting attendance records at the country’s box office. The book burnings seem to be an orchestrated distraction after the Church last month had to release a report, documenting sexual abuse of children by hundreds of Polish priests between 19 and the cover up by bishops. The Polish Catholic bishops’ conference confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the incident had occurred but declined to comment. In 1823, the German poet Heinrich Heine wrote the words, “Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen,” or “Where books are burned, in the end, people will also be burned,” and in 1933, young Nazi students in Germany organized nationwide book burnings to censor and eliminate influence of so-called “decadent” books and soon thereafter the Nazis began the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust. Images of the event were posted on the church’s Facebook site but have been removed by now, but not before they were shared around the globe and international media outlets.Īll over the world, the event is compared with the official book-burnings in Nazi Germany.
The attack on children’s novels and self-help books has generated strong reactions across international news channels, including protests against the burning of books by Osho in the pyre, along with icons representing Buddhism and Hinduism. The books were all brought in by parishioners, who were encouraged by the priests to clear their homes of objects that had “evil forces.”
Rowling, (author of the Harry Potter children’s novels) and other books considered ‘occult’ by the priests. The book burning event focused on books considered ‘non-Christian’ or ‘against the word of God’ and included works by Osho, by British author J. Warsaw, Poland: What sounded originally like an April Fool’s Day joke turned out to be a serious and real event – in the year 2019! On Sunday after mass, a group of Catholic priests, accompanied by altar boys (who probably had no choice to refuse participation in this event) orchestrated a public burning of books called ‘sacrilegious’. The Black Book of Secrets by F.E.4 min read Attack on Literature Draws Outrage From Around the Globe Secrets of the Lighthouse by Santa Montefiore
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