{"id":246,"date":"2008-01-28T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:39","slug":"church-criticism-in-czech-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/church-criticism-in-czech-scripture.html","title":{"rendered":"Church Criticism In Czech Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Czech-postcard-quotation-from-bible.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 386px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/2\/2d\/Czech-postcard-quotation-from-bible.jpg\/386px-Czech-postcard-quotation-from-bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/fear-of-death.html\">Last week&#8217;s postcard<\/a> got a lot of attention thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/silent-porn-star.blogspot.com\/\">SPS<\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(nsfw)<\/span>, so here&#8217;s card #2.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Czech-postcard-quotation-from-bible.jpg\">This appears to hail from the same time-period<\/a>, but isn&#8217;t postmarked or dated like the previous card.  The top line says, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Quotation From Scripture<\/span>&#8220;, and the bottom reads, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">So fear those who slaughter the body and the soul.<\/span>&#8221;   Like a bull to slaughterhouse (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">por\u00e1\u017eka<\/span>), a child is taken in for religious education (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u0161kola klerik\u00e1lni<\/span>).   The blindfold on the bull is used to keep it calm when leading it to slaughter; the child is also being taken &#8216;blindfold to the abattoir,&#8217; oblivious to the harm approaching.  Even without understanding Czech, the image is powerful without the direct accusation of destroying body and soul.<\/p>\n<p>The quote isn&#8217;t right, though; I compared to several Czech translations available online, and the quote is similar to Matthew 10:28, which says not to fear enemies who can destroy the body, instead fear what God can do to your soul in Hell.   By changing word-placement, the maker of this card accuses the clergy of making a Hell on earth for students left in their care.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read up a bit more on what group would be so critical of the church to produce these editorial cartoons so publicly.  At the time, turn-of-the-20th-century, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordjctgenealogy.com\/freethinkers.htm\">the Freethinkers were a prominent group<\/a> in Czech life, growing from Bohemia and anti-Hapsburg sentiment.  The Czech regions, ruled by Austria, were made Catholic states, and popular sentiment began to turn anti-church by the mid-19th century.  The Hapsburgs rule ended, and the regions gained more autonomy through the end of the 19th century.  Marxism and socialism were developing as social, non-governmental movements, the Freethought movement was very popular amongst the religion-suspicious populous.   These postcards were popular-sentiment  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">status quo<\/span> for the young independent, Bohemian Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-4650938789829830510?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s postcard got a lot of attention thanks to SPS (nsfw), so here&#8217;s card #2. This appears to hail from the same time-period, but isn&#8217;t postmarked or dated like the previous card. The top line says, &#8220;Quotation From Scripture&#8220;, and the bottom reads, &#8220;So fear those who slaughter the body and the soul.&#8221; Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[98,507,496,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}