Religion in Poland Gets Offended by the Number of a Bus"666"
We know that most people run like a grandfather's clock. They go according to how the clock swings. 🕰
Never when it passes the middle but when it reached the "ding or the dong". We in the West are on the dong now in which religion has been given more power than the governments elected by the whole electorate. The people belonging to any particular religion would ask, What is wrong with that? There are a few things wrong with it but the most obvious one is that the government should not have a particular religion so it can serve all equally.
When the settlers fought and won over the king in England and now they were with no king some said it was bad! they would be like the savage Indians running around in undergarments. Well, they were very wrong because George Washington, Jefferson, and the rest of the signers of the Constitution remember and understood the hard time they had with religion. In Europe. In Spain, there were entire families jailed for life or executed on the spot only on the word of someone who said the family member was cooking something very weird and unknown. They were accused of being witches or they never were seen in church or were heard saying something wrong about religion they were in the same situation. The originators of the US Constitution wanted something better, a document that represented the knowledge they gained by being maltreated, that they having lived in Europe heard what happened to their ancestors.
Now a man who has never been religious and comes from a Catholic family has gathered the favor of religious people. They see him as an opportunity for power. To destroy the people they don't like. Destroy? yes destroy their human and civil rights because only certain people should be this way or that way. Such a shame. Now if you forgive e Im getting on the 666 to Hel located in Poland.
There will be no more going to Hel on bus 666.
The bus to the town of Hel on Poland’s Baltic coast has long been popular with tourists. But some Christian conservatives have protested against the use of a number signifying the devil on a bus leading to a place that sounds like the word “hell” in English.
The local bus operator, PKS Gdynia, announced this week that bus 666 would no longer run to Hel. It said it would run the line under the number 669 from 24 June.
Local media said the bus company had acted under pressure from Christian groups that had pushed for the change but was already thinking of returning to the old number amid a public outcry.
Fronda. pl, a conservative Catholic website, called for a change in 2018, declaring that some people thought it was “an innocent joke” but it was “hard not to consider it a malicious inspiration”.
It conceded that Hel, a long verdant peninsula with white sandy borders popular with holidaymakers, was not actually an underworld occupied by the departed, but said it would give credence to the “horror of soul death” and make people less confident of the afterlife. The Polish word for hell is piekÅ‚o.
Employees of PKS Gdynia informed passengers about the change in an update about the timetable. Without elaborating, they announced: “This year, we’re turning the last 6 upsides down!” on social media.
The route number isn’t the only pun in Polish transport. A circular tram line in WrocÅ‚aw has been named “zero” for decades.
The local news portal Trojmiasto.pl said the line had operated under the number 666 since 2006, first as a local joke, before attracting riders from across Poland and beyond. Some people rode the bus simply to say they had taken the 666 bus to Hel, Polish media reported.
Fronda lamented the fact that many Polish journalists, even Catholic ones, took pleasure in the joke.
Reacting on the bus company’s Facebook page, Krzysztof Nadolski criticized the move, saying that PKS had killed a brilliant marketing opportunity. “It was an advertisement for the whole world. I have read about line 666 on Hel many times on foreign sites. I am convinced tourists, who could probably have gone quicker by train, took the bus for fun. I don’t know if the number was accidental or deliberate marketing but it sure caught attention.”
Hel in reality is sometimes so popular that tourists have complained that it is overcrowded.
The travel website Staypoland.com describes its “exceptional holiday opportunities” with long beaches, several headlands, a sealed center, a port and promenade, and a “typical healthy maritime climate” that “makes the place a real paradise for those who just enjoy sunbathing and swimming in the sea”.
It also notes its important historical significance, and its strategic defensive value, as exemplified in the second world war.
“After the aggression of Germany on 1 September 1939, Hel became famous as one of the heroically and long-defended regions of Poland. The city was liberated in 1945, and after the war, it grew not only as a fishing port but also as one of the most popular Polish holiday resorts,” said the tourism site.
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