Catholic priests in Poland burn books they say are sacrilegious this weekend, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels
Kucharczyk dismissed comparisons to the cultural censorship of totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany.
"We know what's harmful to our faithful so that's why we held an event like this. I'd even call it evangelical," he toldContacted by AFP on Monday, the Polish Episcopate and Gdansk diocese acknowledged the incident but declined to comment. Father Wojciech Parfianowicz, a spokesman from the Koszalin-Kolobrzeg diocese where the "SMS from Heaven" group is based, condemned the book burning as "inappropriate".news agency that the event risked "diverting attention from real spiritual dangers" posed by "the occult or magic".
"I'd like to believe this is a joke... Seriously? Are people burning fantasy literature in the 21st century in some kind of sick ritual?!" one Facebook user said in a comment underneath the post.Other Facebook users, however, backed the book burning. "Get rid of everything that does not please God and see how your life will change," one person posted.
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