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Polish Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance


polishcanuck  7 | 461  
29 Jan 2010 /  #1
Even before I click on the link to the story (which read Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance) I knew it was a story from Poland:

:)

WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.

The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation, the paper said.

The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it.

"This is comfortable. We don't have to stand in a line to get the priest's signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks," said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina.

Poland is perhaps the most devoutly Roman Catholic country in Europe today and churches are regularly packed on Sundays.

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Ranj  21 | 947  
30 Jan 2010 /  #2
Too bad they didn't have that back when I was confirmed (of course, I would have probably shown up for mass, then ditched as soon as I got there...I may have been raised Catholic, but I never said I was a good Catholic...lol). The only reason children are fingerprinted here is in the case of a child going missing....sad, but true.
convex  20 | 3928  
30 Jan 2010 /  #3
Poland is perhaps the most devoutly Roman Catholic country in Europe today and churches are regularly packed on Sundays.

well...packed might be a bit optimistic.. maybe for christmas or easter...

A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.

Now, why can't the government figure this out.
XMAN  
2 Feb 2010 /  #4
that's downright scary.

their fingerprints can be used anytime by police to place them at some unsolved yet murders places cases
McCoy  27 | 1268  
2 Feb 2010 /  #5
all churches should have one connected with the same system in heaven. when youre dead and about to enter the heavens gates you just put the finger on the reader and got the message - please, enter or access denied. Gods work would be much easier with that stuff. He could focus on sending plagues and keeping an eye on vvankers
f stop  24 | 2493  
2 Feb 2010 /  #6
perfect! Stick that fingerprint scanner right there at the entrance, in the holy water!
beckski  12 | 1609  
2 Feb 2010 /  #7
XMAN
I agree with you 100%. What's next microchips, inserted into each church member, similar to tracking animals?
Seanus  15 | 19666  
3 Feb 2010 /  #8
This is part of a global drive to get as many records on people as they can. What drivel! Hey, priest, leave those kids alone ;)
frd  7 | 1379  
3 Feb 2010 /  #9
this is pretty scary, can't imagine what would have happaned if somebody were to resign from "religion lessons"...
MuieMulta  
3 Feb 2010 /  #10
poor kids they don't even think that once their fingerprint is owned by somebody else, in a database, they dont have any freedom anymore, they are enslaved for life to the system
Harry  
3 Feb 2010 /  #11
What's next microchips, inserted into each church member

It's probably best not to give Catholic priests any more ideas about inserting things into children.
caprice49  4 | 224  
3 Feb 2010 /  #12
A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader

An abuse of civil rights!!!! Even in Poland. So what are the authorities doing about it??
Ironside  50 | 12307  
3 Feb 2010 /  #13
this is pretty scary, can't imagine what would have pasar if somebody were to resign from "religion lessons"...

you are probably person who is afraid of her own shadow!
And that's why you sprout nonsense. you have something of the Spanish Inquisition in you.

Poland is perhaps the most devoutly Roman Catholic country in Europe today and churches are regularly packed on Sundays.

Does it bother someone if true ?**** off

It's probably best not to give Catholic priests any more ideas about inserting things into children.

jealousy ?

Hey, priest, leave those kids alone ;)

its good idea why do you pick on things that doesn't concern you, leave this guy alone:D

This is part of a global drive to get as many records on people as they can.

agreed!

poor kids

anonymous I tend to ignore.
Polanglik  11 | 303  
3 Feb 2010 /  #14
Jeez .... what next ?

Maybe we'll see lie detectors in the confessional ! I can just see it now, whereby you are given a list of sins to which you have to answer yes or no etc and if the detector registers a lie then you're given an electric shock !
Crow  154 | 9195  
3 Feb 2010 /  #15
young people bater to go in Christian church then in mosque. Not to mention that Catholic Church in Poland always defended and Polish national interets, what i greately respect. Approach of that particular priest is maybe a little bit exterme but, Poland is under pressure of islamization and germanization (to say- Eurabization) and i am even ready to understand stance of that priest. What i want to say- man is somewhat nervous but, has a mission. i unederstand his message

So, just give us here picture of that priest. I would put it in my car. I am St. Sava`s Serbian Orthodox but what does it matter. That`ll be my Christian and Slavic solidarity to that brave Catholic Polish priest
frd  7 | 1379  
3 Feb 2010 /  #16
you are a good person!
And that's why you speak with wisdom. you have nothing of the Spanish Inquisition in you.

Thanks :) Nobody expects spanish inquisition.

Maybe we'll see lie detectors in the confessional !

exactly, priests breeding fresh vegetables for themselves...
Harry  
3 Feb 2010 /  #17
Nobody expects spanish inquisition.

Copernicus did.
Ironside  50 | 12307  
3 Feb 2010 /  #18
Jeez .... what next ?

jezz.... next you learn to read with understanding and that open your silly mug!

Thanks :) you are wise and great person

welcome!
You could use your brain once in a while I know you can!
jonni  16 | 2475  
3 Feb 2010 /  #19
200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation

stand in a line to get the priest's signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks

It seems they value quantity over quality.
frd  7 | 1379  
3 Feb 2010 /  #20
I could use my brain once in a while I know I can!

Yes you could.

It seems they value quantity over quality.

Yeah, many of these have no idea what they are actually doing.. half of them chats away most of the mass..
Ironside  50 | 12307  
3 Feb 2010 /  #21
Yes.

do you know what you are talking about - on serious note - I doubt it!
What are you against?
Crow  154 | 9195  
4 Feb 2010 /  #22
i heard today people speaks in bus about Polish priest that fight for souls of young Poles

Polish priest, Serbian hero!
Next66  
5 Feb 2010 /  #23
Next thing:

the members are given electrical shocks if they dont want to give their fingerprints to the database, and they refuse being mircochipped
Ironside  50 | 12307  
5 Feb 2010 /  #24
Next thing:

you are so funny, not obviously if THERE IS a PC way of being prejudiced:)
Makintosh  
6 Feb 2010 /  #25
what is a PC way of being prejudiced??
z_darius  14 | 3960  
6 Feb 2010 /  #26
Polish Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance

I think this is a positive development for those destined for Heaven, and it is a proof evolution works. God evolved and they are installing a computer system run by Heaven's Gate 1.0 Operating System. St. Peter is being trained on the print scanners and once everything is in place the time spent in the Purgatory will be greatly reduced. It is obvious that the long wait times were due solely to the bureaucratic and administrative backlogs.

Only sinners will not like what's happening, as their time in the Purgatory will be reduced and they will be sent to Hell by the All Loving God much quicker.

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