1691: Yaroslav Halan — Militant Anticlerical Atheism, Anti-Vatican Polemicism
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/05/11
“On July 13, 1949, a significant event occurred in my life: Pope Pius XII excommunicated me from the Church.”
“He excommunicated me as one weans a calf from a cow. Without warning.”
“The Lord did not endow me with humility.”
“I spit on the Pope!”
“No one except my mother heard this, but evidently the omnipresent God informed his Roman vicar.”
“From then on, the Greek Catholic Church began a cold war against me.”
“My conflict with the Holy See truly intensified when, in a moment of good spirits, I called Metropolitan Sheptytsky a muddier of holy water.”
“They needed a pretext. And they found it.”
“The Holy See replaced Hitler with Truman; nevertheless, my relations with it did not improve at all. Quite the contrary.”
“My only consolation is that I am not alone: along with me, the Pope excommunicated at least three hundred million people.”
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