Tag: Kirche und Demokratie
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Article 4 of the Basic Law: No Invitation to Power Politics – Neither for the State Nor for the Church
Article 4 of the Basic Law was not an integration program. It was not a political signal to specific religious communities. And it was certainly not an invitation to convert religious authority into partisan political power. It was a lesson from history. A lesson drawn from the close entanglement of state and church. And that very lesson is disregarded when leading church representatives actively Read more