According to their critics, the leaders of the German Lutherans are increasingly transforming their church into a sect close to the government, while neglecting their Christian mission, Magyar Hírlap writes in an article .
The German Evangelical Church invites its followers to a gender pilgrimage, instead of nurturing Christianity, it named sexual rights and climate protection as its main goal. According to some opinions, the churches in Germany are increasingly resembling radical civil organizations that promote political-ideological theses instead of Christ.
In February, the German Evangelical Church (EKD) announced a pilgrimage for believers in support of sexual identity. The action called "starting for gender justice" is organized in no less than nine parishes to "recognize diversity". Behind the action, which is difficult to distinguish from the initiatives of LGBTQ organizations, is Annette Kurschus, president of the EKD council, who, even after her appointment last year, made climate and nature protection her top office priority. This focus on gender identity, as well as placing climate protection at the center of church life, reinforces the opinions that consider the 20 million EKD to be a religious advocate of the German government drifting to the radical left.
The leadership of the EKD aligned itself with government policy even when Kurschus declared that "it is not necessary to have a dialogue with those who attack the foundations of the democratic system, but to oppose them". The statement did not affect extremist Islamists, activist migrant smugglers who disregard the country's borders, or possibly violent far-left activists, but the right-wing AfD party, which also has a seat in the Bundestag.
The leader of the EKD is also an enthusiastic supporter of migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, which carry immigrants to the shores of Europe in cooperation with human smuggling gangs. In a speech, Kurschus said, "Thank God, countless people take risks every day in helping refugees, in the Seebrücke movement, and in many initiatives against racism and right-wing violence."
Josef Kraus, the author of the news portal Tichys Einblick, calls EKD a "government-owned, lavishly taxed, moralizing and politicizing NGO". He accuses his leader of submitting to gender ideology, forgetting that it is really just “pink cultural Marxism” that ostensibly promotes diversity but in reality aims to erase differences between individuals and groups. According to Kraus, EKD is beginning to resemble a state-funded sect.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Photo: Harald Oppitz/KNA
