A French priest has received death threats after a sold-out pole dance performance was held in his church

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Forgive them Father, for they have taken to the pole…

 

A French priest has received death threats after a sold-out pole dance performance was held in his church.

Daniel Boessenbacher, the priest at the Protestant Saint-Guillaume church in Strasbourg, eastern France, told AFP he had alerted police to the threats after receiving two anonymous letters.

 

“There is no doubt, this is about a show involving Stabat Mater and pole dancing,” he said.

A baroque music and performing arts association, Passions Croisées (Interwoven Passions), rented the church last week for two performances of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s lyrical sequence Stabat Mater, which they combined with dance and pole dance acts.

[StreetCowboy]

I wasn’t invited either, but that’s no excuse for death threats

[phetphet]

Well it worked, in that it was sold out. One way of increasing his congregation. ????

 

But joking aside, why do that in a church? He must have known it would upset some people.

[Jingthing]

Could have been worse -- drag queen story hours.

[quake]

Religious, nut jobs.

Nothing new now days. 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, phetphet said:

Well it worked, in that it was sold out. One way of increasing his congregation. ????

 

But joking aside, why do that in a church? He must have known it would upset some people.

Only to people that don't know anything about Christianity. Were pole dancing a thing in Israel when he walked on it's soil, he'd have been a friend of pole dancers, just as he was a friend of prostitutes.

Saddens me when people don't understand their own religion.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, phetphet said:

Well it worked, in that it was sold out. One way of increasing his congregation. ????

 

But joking aside, why do that in a church? He must have known it would upset some people.

They probably needed the money.

[StreetCowboy]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Only to people that don't know anything about Christianity. Were pole dancing a thing in Israel when he walked on it's soil, he'd have been a friend of pole dancers, just as he was a friend of prostitutes.

Saddens me when people don't understand their own religion.

He would’ve been unhappy at them selling tickets.  He was quite clear that temples were for prophets, not profits.

[connda]

Christianity is going to Hell in a hand-basket.

[StayinThailand2much]

15 hours ago, phetphet said:

Well it worked, in that it was sold out. One way of increasing his congregation. ????

 

But joking aside, why do that in a church? He must have known it would upset some people.

Both wrong, death threats, and having such an event in church. Why didn't they just do it outside of the church?