Opus hereticum 1

"My freedom, I dreamed I married you."

We were raised with a sense of submission and shame. Shame towards our own nature and submission to a deity that, like a parasite, preys on us for survival.

I remember that from the time I was very young, "because it is so" wasn't enough as an answer to the questions that tempted me. Deep within me, there was this rebellious, rebellious awareness of being in opposition to what I saw.

The images I observed of people attending Sunday Mass clashed with what I observed every day around me. These unfriendly, dishonest, envious people whose source of happiness was the misfortune of someone else. Perhaps this is Catholicism in its Polish form. I saw no other as a child. To this day, I am troubled by the split personality of those who curse their neighbors while simultaneously going to receive communion with folded hands during Mass.

Catholicism breeds a two-faced society. The greater its influence on social life, the lower the social trust.

I have been observing the recent debate in Poland regarding new classes called Health Education. I have observed the panicky reaction of the Catholic Church, which issued a letter to the faithful on September 6, 2025, containing many very interesting statements, but which have little to do with reality.

"The capacity for renunciation, of which Jesus speaks, presupposes inner freedom and the ability to maintain a mature distance from people and things, as well as the ability to control oneself and freedom from addictions. This is precisely what religion teaches in schools – freedom of heart, self-discipline, and the ability to control oneself, without which it is difficult today to protect oneself from the enslavement of various types of addictions," write the bishops. However, these fine words about maintaining distance from oneself and things are not reflected in the reality of the Church in Poland. By writing about distancing oneself from materialism, the cardinals cross another line of impudence. Distance from materialism, of course, but this applies only to the faithful. Not to them. They themselves seem to have ignored the logic of Jesus' argument, namely, that it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter paradise. By writing about self-discipline, however, they ignore the fundamental problem that has lingered in this organization for centuries: power, to which the church has been drawn since its inception. This is the main addiction of the Catholic Church. And the loss of this power hurts more than anything else. And this is precisely what this debate is about: power. Over a row of souls that can still be molded like modeling clay.

Religion is a cancer that gnaws at society. It's not easy to free yourself from it. Thousands of years of experience in controlling the masses is, however, an added value in this institution. However, it's worth mustering the courage to take responsibility for your own life. The Church does not and never has had a monopoly on values. Goodness is not and never has been Catholic. Kindness and compassion for others are human, even though the Catholic Church would probably wish otherwise.

Therefore, dear reader, if at some point while reading this post you ask yourself whether you, too, are capable of freeing yourself from over a thousand years of indoctrination and building your own value system based on respect for others, I will remain a happy blogger.

However, I warn everyone against handing over power to another ruler. The sole and undivided ruler in our lives should be ourselves. As we abandon religion, let us not seek to replace those who know better what life is and how to live it. Those who know better only seek a way to control.

Freedom is not surrendering to another ruler. Freedom is responsibility for one's own being. Freedom is the madness and epic of life. The glory of existence in its most beautiful form.

Go and be free.