Building a church is proof of faith in the future

The construction of a church is proof of faith in the future, said the minister leading the Prime Minister's Office on Saturday, Rakamazon of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County.

Gergely Gulyás said at the consecration ceremony of the new church of the local Reformed parish that more than three decades after the fall of the communist dictatorships in Central Europe, it seems that materialism is "winning" in Western Europe.

"Politicians who otherwise classify themselves as Christian Democrats are not only inaugurating a statue of Marx, but they consider everything that has defined European life for centuries to be obsolete," said the minister.

He explained that if we want to see what kind of future awaits countries that abandon Christianity, it is enough to look at the churches of Western Europe, "we see how they destroy them in order to build coal mines, gas stations, and shopping centers in their place."

"We see how they become concert halls, hotels, fast food restaurants, or how they are transferred to the possession of Muslims so that the muezzin can call the followers of another religion to pray where they once prayed as Christians," said Gergely Gulyás.

According to his words, you can also see how Christianity is disappearing from public life and schools, which parallels the disappearance of understanding, the strengthening of the dictatorship of opinion and the emergence of incompatible constraints such as making gender ideology mandatory - even against the will of parents.

What we would have considered a bad joke as part of absurd humor even twenty years ago, today is not simply reality, but has become a mandatory state ideology in the welfare states of Western Europe, the minister emphasized.

Gergely Gulyás said that in these times faith is especially needed as a pledge of survival, but it is not necessary to "move mountains", but to "put stones and bricks on top of each other" and thereby build a small community. The Rakamazi congregation did so, first creating a church hall, and then with many years of hard work and state support, it was able to build its church, he added.

In Hungary and throughout Hungarian history, church building has always been a part of country building, and it was such small communities that made the country great, and the future of the nation and the country depend on them, Gergely Gulyás said.

Vinnai Győző , the region's Fidesz parliamentary representative, spoke about the fact that churches are still being built in Hungary more than two thousand years after the birth of Christ, which is a clear proof of the sustaining power of faith.

The western part of Europe and part of the world have lost their faith, but we must not lose our faith, because it has kept Hungary going for a thousand years and it can keep it going in the future as well, emphasized the politician from the ruling party.

At the ceremony, Károly Fekete, the bishop of the Tiszántúli Reformed Church District, and Sándor Gaál, the dean of the Nyírség Reformed Church Diocese, preached.

MTI