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Priests Demand Sweden Stop Celebrating ‘Poisonous’ National Holiday
breitbart ^ | CHRIS TOMLINSON

Posted on 06/15/2017 1:28:10 PM PDT by davikkm

A pair of Swedish priests has demanded the country and church stop celebrating the Swedish national holiday “National Day” saying nationalism and patriotism are “poison”. Priests Peter Englund and Helena Myrstener from the southern, heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö have said Swedish people should stop celebrating “National Day”.

They claim that “nothing good has come out of nationalism or patriotism” and the day has been “exploited by right wing populist forces” in an editorial for left wing Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

“The nation-state is a way to organise and administer but nothing to revere,” the pair wrote. National Day, which occurs June 6 every year, replaced Whit Monday becoming the official Swedish national holiday in 2005.

According to Englund and Myrstener, patriotism is a “poison” writing: “Patriotism has its roots in the patriarchal thinking that celebrates traditional masculinity as strength, competition, inequality, and reduces men to soldiers, and women to mothers. It goes without saying that this does not create good conditions for a world without borders.”

The best way to be proud of being Swedish, according to the authors, is to celebrate the right to vote and enjoy the various parks and nature in Sweden.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 06/15/2017 1:28:10 PM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Notice how ‘treason’ and ‘enemy of the state’ are things you no longer hear spoken or written by the media. It’s all about refugees, which is interchangeable with asylum seeker; human-rights, interchangeable with national entitlements; open-borders and free-society. Marxists love word games and want to control the public discourse, but to do so they need to control the vocabulary first, hence the whole ‘hate shaming’ thing.


2 posted on 06/15/2017 1:29:29 PM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Sweden just needs to die faster. Only horrible suffering and much bloodshed will fix what is wrong with Sweden.


3 posted on 06/15/2017 1:31:57 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: davikkm

Ho-hum. Whatever.

No idiocy issuing forth from Sweden raises my eyebrows anymore. Like watching a 24/7 movie of a straight-jacketed mental patient banging his head against the wall over and over and over and over again. Until dead.


4 posted on 06/15/2017 1:32:23 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: davikkm

Doesn’t the state pay their wages??


5 posted on 06/15/2017 1:33:21 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: davikkm
Even after all the blood we've spilled there it cannot be denied that:

EUROPE IS LOST!


6 posted on 06/15/2017 1:34:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: davikkm

But Ramadan, Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha are perfectly okay?


7 posted on 06/15/2017 1:35:08 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Demographic Tsnami - Have Big Families)
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To: davikkm

I guess there are idiots everywhere.


8 posted on 06/15/2017 1:35:56 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Good riddance to a perpetual group of self-destructive fools.


9 posted on 06/15/2017 1:38:32 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: davikkm

But they still want the citizens to work to pay taxes and to abide by their laws, right?


10 posted on 06/15/2017 1:38:57 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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11 posted on 06/15/2017 1:39:34 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: davikkm

A universal law: Holidays are not taken away. Even people that don’t care about the reason, will not give them up.


12 posted on 06/15/2017 1:40:11 PM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: davikkm

There may be some bad examples of nationalism, but for the most part a common desire of a population to keep itself alive is a healthy mechanism in the world.

Sure beats bloody international collectivism.


13 posted on 06/15/2017 1:40:40 PM PDT by lurk
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To: davikkm

The left, on the other hand, in the 20th century, was directly responsible for more death by tyranny than all other governments combined in the history of the world. 100 million in China under Mao; 50 million in Russia under stalin; 20 million in Germany under Hitler. Lots of lesser despots running “socialist” governments averaging 1 million each. It was patriotic nationalists tat ended the slaughter and brought back civilization. The trouble with liberals is they believe their own lies.


14 posted on 06/15/2017 1:42:55 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: davikkm

If “nothing good has come out of nationalism or patriotism”, then imagine how much worse it will be on a “globalist” level! “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”


15 posted on 06/15/2017 1:43:47 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: davikkm

“Priests.”
“Im-Ho-Tep’s priests.”


16 posted on 06/15/2017 1:44:44 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I say we leave the pussy-hat Swedish males to their own demise. But can we please give refugee status to the Swedish Bikini Team?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2NEFPqTwY


17 posted on 06/15/2017 1:46:17 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: davikkm

Burn them at the stake.

Enough of these damned liberal Islamopandering prelates!

I hope the Swedish National Day holiday grows in popularity until they expel this predatory parasitic scum from their midst.

Expect more of this HERE in America from the ELCA, Episcopalians, Methodists and other revisionist gay and lesbian controlled leftist churches.


18 posted on 06/15/2017 1:47:15 PM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! HE KILLED OBAMACARE REPEAL AND WILL KILL TAX REFORM!!)
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To: Darksheare

“Priests.”

In Sweden they still call their Lutheran ministers “priests”. Kind of an odd hold over from the days when they had Christian priests.


19 posted on 06/15/2017 1:47:43 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: davikkm

The globalists want to destroy the notion of nations but ultimately it’s bringing back tribalism and a divergence of societies.


20 posted on 06/15/2017 1:53:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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