In the Middle Ages, Catholic priests invented the story of the Baptism of Poland, which Cardinal Wyszyński later elevated to the status of a great national myth. The beginnings of this narrative date back to Gallus Anonymus, who was not from here and wanted to convince Poles that it was the Church that gave them statehood. Except that all of this is untrue.
The alleged Baptism of Poland, arbitrarily dated to 966, is a distortion of the region’s true history, which involved brutal colonialism and the cultural enslavement of the Slavs. The Church, through figures such as Mieszko I, aspired to the status of the German nobility, treating local communities as a source of cheap labor.
Mieszko I, instead of defending the locals, simply preferred to join the ranks of the German nobility. This entire undertaking, like the Crusades, was part of a larger plan of Christian colonialism. Believing that Polish statehood was the achievement of the Church is a terrible mistake.
It is time to stop believing these Church fairy tales, look at history soberly, and move toward Poland’s true democratic future.
We recommend the post below by Rafał Betlejewski, author of the book 365 Lessons of Religion.
Rafał Betlejewski’s post