Ah, Sweden. Home of IKEA and porn addicted clergyman. Today Swedish news outlet The Local reports that a clergyman in central Sweden has resigned from his position after infecting the local church network with a lethal virus he downloaded during his daily routine of surfing porn on a parish computer.

The disgraced priest has been surprisingly open about the whole thing, as he “admitted to spending a lot of time at work viewing pornographic websites.” In our experience that’s the last thing you want to be admitting. And in addition to that, the Swedish Archbishop has been remarkably understanding about the need to surf for porn:

“‘Priests are people too,’ Archbishop Anders Wejryd (Ed note: Isn’t that Wejryd?) told the paper.

“‘But I have no understanding at all for someone sitting and surfing for porn on the parish computers,’ he added.

“A pastor in Gothenburg recently came under scrutiny for moistening post-it notes with his penis and sticking them up in an office.”

Seems to us that there are two things to take away from this story:

1) Surfing for porn is the same as cheating on your taxes: everyone does it, you just don’t want to be the one who gets caught.

And, 2) ANYTHING goes in Sweden. The only reason — outside of hilarious shock value — we included the third line of the story about the post-it note incident was to hammer this point home. If you feel at all alienated by society in the US, it may be time to give Sweden a try. As far as we can tell the only prerequisite is liking meatballs.

[Source: The Local]

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