Originally Posted by k0nr4d

The catholic church is fucked. Let me tell you about it from the point of view of someone living in a country completely fuckign overrun with this bullshit. 98% of the population of the country is catholic...

1) The church is the most important thing here evidently. Poland is the only country in the world that observes every single catholic holiday. They come out of nowhere. I literally cannot buy food for 3-4 days at a time sometimes because they thought up some fucking holiday out of the blue. I then get to live off gas station hot dogs.
2) The worst traffic jams are on sunday when everyone is heading to/from church. Most of them don't even give a fuck about church, they are there for show. What will the neighbors think if they don't see them there??? OH NOES!
3) The church passes around this big plate thing that you are supposed to donate money on. If you put change, people give you wierd looks. You have to be putting paper money (and this is in a country where the average person makes around 400euro before taxes).
4) The biggest contributors to the church are old ladies whos pension is no more then 150euro. The church literally rapes them for half thier pension.
5) There is a radio station called 'Radio Maria'. Its literally like...24/7 Church. I don't mean christian rock, this shit is fucking playing sermuns and people singing in church ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT. It also demands donations from its listeners. You can conveniantly pay them by sms. Old ladies from #4 also give generious to this radio station. The radio stations owner owns an aston martin and a maybach, and is one of the richest men in the country (the radio station is of course tax free. The tax agency here woudln't want to anger god with taxes!).
6) The church sermuns themselves are horrible. I went to one once for a wedding. I fluently speak polish, but i could not understand a fucking word the priest said. Partially because i could not focus on him for more then 5 seconds because it was so damned boring, the other part is because he was singing and talking in the same fucking tone. I don't mean like the cool black people churches. Shit, i can't even illustrate what this sounds like using text so i'll just stop this point right here.
7) There are so many fucking churches here that its ridiculous. The typical polish town looks like this: Church house house graveyard church house church church graveyard house house house church.

I'd go on, but I just woke up and I need some breakfast.

Originally Posted by baddog

K0nr4d, I was tripping when I was in Germany and my friend was telling me how involved the church was in their lives, and people just tolerate it. The fact that a resume has your religion on it because "everyone must tell" floored me.