"We are far behind the Austrian and German churches, the situation is tragic!", "The Hungarian Catholic clergy should also be much more open, otherwise the faithful will slowly run out!!", "In the West, progressive female theologians are barely recognized, but here the we are in the middle ages!” "With this conservative attitude alien to life, the church is digging its own grave!!!" – so-called progressive Christians and Bolshevik atheists and agnostics who are obviously genuinely worried about the Catholic Church are ringing the alarm bell.

Then, on a beautiful day in July, the latest data on non-Christians will arrive: as in previous years, another 441,000 people officially "left" the German Catholic and Lutheran churches in 2020 , roughly half to half. That's how many people have decided that (except in cases of danger to their lives) they never want to participate in any kind of sacrament again, and they don't even want to receive a church funeral; to this is added the additional "natural" weight loss of 443,000 - the elderly die, and a quarter to a fifth of the children are no longer baptized by "believing" parents. So the annual balance is minus 884,000, while the number of priest ordinations is roughly half of that of Hungary, even though we cannot deny the serious shortage of priests.

But why do so many Germans turn their backs on their church? Are they considered too conservative even with the rainbow flags? Maybe the scandals shook their rock-solid faith to such an extent that they leave the entire community? Or was the mention of the word "crime" a joke online?

No. The most common reason for leaving is: "The church tax is too high". Since the amount of the actually mandatory contribution to Arrafel usually corresponds to 0–1.5 percent of the income, this justification can mean two things: either German Christians can set aside so little from their salary that even this amount is an unacceptable burden for them, or to such an extent the bezzegeház has shriveled that hundreds of thousands of believers voluntarily excommunicate themselves in exchange for saving a monthly amount equal to the price of a fitness pass.

In the first case, on the one hand , we can guess what would happen in the somewhat poorer Hungary if a left-wing government entrusted the maintenance of the churches entirely to the faithful , and on the other hand, we can doubt the greatness of the progressive German churches, which spend millions of euros on migrant ships, while their own flock is supposedly dwindling for financial reasons. Of course, there is no doubt that the second case is more common - people would have money, only the spirit of the biblical poor woman was lost in prosperity. Making a sacrifice is such an old-school thing: how much cooler it is to get into the church for free and receive a blessing for whatever the dear guest needs.

And why should one pay the church tax if the priest operates with Coelho-level messages. It's cheaper to buy the original at the bookstore.

And here comes the second main reason for leaving churches: "I no longer believe in God." When one of the members of the lesbian star couple made up of two evangelical pastors declares that she would prefer not to leave the house on her free(!) Sundays, because she has no "need" to necessarily go to church every Sunday, sing lame songs and listen to terrible sermons, there that's why we can feel that his head stinks of fish - if it doesn't even occur to the pastor that we don't go to the house of God on the Lord's Day because of the songs, then it is understandable that the simple believer has doubts.

This wink-winking, couch-pushing Christianity is extremely trendy and "close to life", the fact is, it's just as empty as a balloon. Unfortunately.

Among the reasons for leaving in the "still running" category are various abuses within the churches (in the case of Lutherans as well as in Catholics - so much for the abolition of celibacy being the solution), as well as the politicization of the church. Namely, the financing of anti-fa ships transporting migrants, the masses reminiscent of left-green séances, or even the LGBT propaganda announced from the pulpit.

It is a completely progressive phenomenon, because of which the German churches are losing believers just as much as because of abuses.

So when self-proclaimed prophets proclaim that the damage caused by shameful pedophile cases should be repaired with some sort of rainbow reform, and that the cure for the lack of believers would be to let in the zeitgeist, we can now be absolutely sure: they are at least wrong.

Source: vasarnap.hu, Author: Francesca Rivafinoli

(Cover photo: dehir.hu)