Behemoth frontman cleared of religious hatred charges

go to the blok for nergal
begayaan sih lo sok anti agama, gimmick aja belaga

Go Nergal <3 The courts are just trying to pull down anyone who stands on the opposite wing to Christianity =P

good beans...
yet christians standing in town centres preaching the words of "God" and "Jesus" are not inciting anything are they...

Inciting religious intellerance in Poland of all fucking places should not be seen as "sticking it to the man". It's a petty, childish, insensiteve and deeply inappropriate thing for someone - particularly someone in the public eye - to do.

I'm personally disappointed that the courts didn't get a conviction, it would have shown people that anti-christian athiests are no different from the anti-athiest christians they hate so much.

I'm an atheist myself, but I don't find this sort of behaviour big, clever, or tollerable in a supposedly civilised society.

I'm not saying that Christianity hasn't had its fair share of controversy - particularly the Catholic church which is the most popular in Poland - but two wrongs most certainly do not make a right.

@ Colee:

People trying to spread the word of Jesus Christ and God are, if they are sticking to the true fundamentals of their religion, inciting tollerence, love, understanding and peace.

Yes, some people like the Westboro Baptists take it too far and deserve to be punished for inciting Religious Intellerence, but people who try and spread the word of God aren't doing anything wrong - they're promoting their own belief system, not castigating anyone elses.

Good on him, effing biblebashers need to stop. If we want to learn about religion, we'd go to a church, stop preaching in streets.

Dont know why people in poland find this offensive i though they had all moved to the UK and i was unaware that there were any people left in poland.

Its a fucking book at the end of the day, dont they have better things to do like sentence actual criminals than someone who's ripped up paper covered in ink?

Good on him, i'm glad he got cleared. The bible is just a book, and should be seen as such.

I think it was more of a political statement, in a country where you can be arrested for blasphemy, it seems like the perfect thing to do to stand up against such bullshit.

that is rediculis he should have gone to jail he has no respect of the polish culture
just cause he is not a christian he dosn't have to show the whole world

good for him ^^

He shouldn't have been punished from expressing his religious views.
Anyone going to see Behemoth would've known about their religious beliefs, and put themselves in the company of people with those same beliefs.
I find it ridiculous that anyone could possibly find something as inevitable as a satanic act in a behemoth gig offensive, and I find it even more ludicrous that legal action was taken.
People should have known what to expect, and it should be their problem if they put themselves in that situation.

Ben... Ben Stiller, is that you?

Do you think Stiller's grammar and spelling is that bad?

I've been doing a very complex Greek language course all day, grammar is really the last thing i'm stressing about kids :')

PS flannigan, do you really believe he should be jailed for tearing up a Bible?

He SHOULD have been jailed for tearing up the bible - not because I hold some reverance to it. Personally, I'm against half of the ideas in the bible, and I don't believe a word of it. He should have been jailed because it was an act of religious intellerence in contravention of the laws of Poland.

I'm 100% against blasphemy laws in any way, shape or form. But to be honest this is asking for trouble. It's often easy for us in the UK and other places where we're fortunate enough to have secular influence that even in countries not far from here religion still has an iron grip over the legal system and the Roman Catholic Church in particular never misses any - ANY - opportunity to whine about how they are being persecuted for their beliefs (you only need to look at their endless bitching about how the world was out to get them just because authorities in the UK, US, Ireland and elsewhere were DOING THEIR JOB and investigating very serious sexual abuse investigations against priests). Doing something like this does NO favours to the very small minority of Poles - about 1% of the population - who are atheist or agnostic, and merely plays into the hands of the church that is so eager to stifle dissent.

@ Danny, very, very good point. Wasting time on a case that barely qualifies as a crime is a waste of time.

@ Danny, very, very good point. Wasting time on a case that barely qualifies as a crime is a waste of time.

He should've done what Manson does in Poland and used a fake bible

He should've done what Manson does in Poland and used a fake bible

Good on him, such a pointless reason to go to prison. I could understand the fuss if he had walked into a church and done that, if he had PURPOSELY tried to offend someone, but he hadn't. It was at a Behemoth gig, and that's what they're about. A christian wouldn't walk in halfway through the gig with a cross and start preaching now would they?

Ben, I was going on about Stiller's resemblance to Nergal.

Who's name sounds like "Nigger" when speaking in an upper class english accent.

way to go Nergal. I'm very happy for you. BEHEMOTH!!