A large stir sparked an incidental in the Sejm on December 13, which broke the popularity records on the network. For some, it was a regrettable anti-Semitic prank, which they condemned with all their strength without covering the highest outrage, while others approached the substance with a distance, treating it more as a political performance, not even lacking, due to the fire extinguisher, elements of some, but very specific, humor.
Undoubtedly, the full thing can be viewed on respective levels, of which, for me, however, the most crucial 1 is regarding respect for spiritual practices. And here we request to be clear: to something specified as disrupting the spiritual holiday, by extinguishing Khanuk candles, should not happen, especially since celebrating Hanukkah was held there with approval and at the invitation of the building's host.
Another question is whether the main building of the Sejm is the right place for specified spiritual rites. The Catholic Sejm Chapel is placed at level -1 in the home of Members, and thus in a alternatively unofficial and unrepresentative place.
In my humble opinion, it is simply a condition for the peace and consensual coexistence of people of different religions to guarantee that all those who are permitted to stay permanently in a given country can besides practice their religion freely. specified rules have been in force in Poland for centuries.
Certainly, the substance must concern the designated places of prayer and, subject to prior agreement with the applicable authorities, the public space.
The second condition for avoiding spiritual conflicts is the exclusion of spiritual doctrines and their orders to conduct the faithful from any political and legal assessment and effort to regulate by the state. The principles of religion, as an assumption, are not compromised.
In your own autonomous community you can live in a way that may seem unacceptable to others (ritual slaughter, dress, matrimony or kid rearing).
The effort by the state to impose rules in this respect will inevitably lead to conflict, and while any authorities seem to think that Christians can be persecuted and forced to submit, so many another religions, mainly Muslims, show much more assertiveness, and here even the government of the French republic, which erstwhile had no scruples to completely destruct its Catholics, now before Muslims who simply despise Republican principles, clearly backs.
However, let us return to our case, the incidental mentioned in the Sejm. Mr Braun behaved improperly and this does not, of course, concern the unjustified firing of the fire extinguisher, but, above all, the disruption of the spiritual rite. That must be condemned. That is my position erstwhile it comes to fundamental principles.
However, it is not possible to ignore, and not to take into account another issues related to this incident, which, although possibly little important, besides form an crucial context.
The point is that Grzegorz Braun, I do not know whether consciously, has shot all those champions in the fight for a secular state who, inactive recently, under the pretext of fighting for the “rights of women”, disrupted Masses in churches and were grouped for removing crosses from schools and offices.
Now, their condemnation of Braun looks anything idiotic, as it turns out that their sincere love of the secularity of the state does not mean that they do not accept any religion in public buildings, but only 1 particular, namely Catholic.
So they are not followers of the secular state, but enemies of Catholics.
Let us effort to point out how Grzegorz Braun behaved differently from Mrs. Scheering-Wielgus, who in 2020, as part of the alleged "women's walk" entered the Church of St. James in Toruń and demonstrated there during Mass.
It did not usage a fire extinguisher, but on the another hand, the church is not an authoritative building, and a place intended for worship, where the peace of the faithful should in no way be violated. Even the communist authorities did so during the martial law and the ZOMO did not enter the churches.
Today, any aunts of the liberal revolution are already enumerating what paragraphs should be applied against Braun, and before that they were cheering for the acquittal of those who disturbed Masses in churches.
Perhaps any of them will now be foolish; at least what they are able to drink and follow the logic at the simple level.
Stanisław Lewicki
