Alexander
Gauland
Church
and State
AfD
Kompakt, May 2, 2020
[Alexander Gauland is honorary national
chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and a chairman of the AfD
delegation in the Bundestag. He here responds to a recent court ruling
concerning the government’s regulation of public gatherings during the Corona
pandemic.]
The
decision of the Federal Constitutional Court is very welcome. However, the
Christian Amtskirchen [official
churches] ought to be ashamed that it required a Moslem mosque association to
sue for this basic right in Germany. The former, essentially with a shrug,
accepted the total suspension of the basic right to undisturbed religious
practice. Not even Christian funerals were regularly performed.
For
long have both Christian Amtskirchen neglected
their core duty of the cure of souls in favor of a biased involvement in daily
politics. Now, when it comes to the elementary concerns of Christians, the
Church hierarchy takes a dive. It is quite clear that the membership decline of
the churches will not be thusly halted.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
