In December 1959 the literary journal Dialog published a play by Zygmunt Mycielski entitled Bogowie [Gods]. It is a kind of satirical show in which the author presents the world of the gods in a rather irreverent manner. The characters of God the Father, Son of God and whole host of angels (among whom the Old Angel is an “old fart” and Archangel Michael an “obtuse mercenary”) are full of vices. They are more preoccupied with scheming rather than with matters of humanity. Mycielski added the following note to the published text of the play:

I do not wish this play to be performed on stage in our country. I realise that it would hurt the religious feelings of people who are far from scepticism and from dispassionate examination of the fate of gods and people on earth. Worse things were written about similar topics already in the eighteenth century. Has there been a huge change in this regard in comparison with those days? The situation is different in every corner of the world. Religious, patriotic and national sentiments, to name just those three, are in our case as hot as local sentiments – of belonging to a community or a family. The destruction of such an attachment is improper given the human sensibility, to say the least. Let everyone deal with it on their own. I do not want to play dumb and claim that my Gods is an innocent word play about enshrined dogmas and beliefs. Yet I do not think that the play is an example of mockery and desecration. Gods or God live in human hearts irrespective of any specific images. My little play is not against Gods, but against this void created by people on earth without them.