Christianity could exist without Europe, but Europe cannot exist without Christianity - declared the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for national policy in his presentation at the 31st Bálványosi Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő.
In the panel discussion Christianity in the Western World, Zsolt Semjén spoke about how Christianity is an unavoidable building block of European civilization, just like Greek culture, Roman law, Jewish ethics and theology or Germanic state organization, but it was precisely Christianity that built these building blocks. up the "cathedral" of European civilization.
The politician from the government party emphasized that the mainstream ideology of the Western world does not accept this assumption and tries to suppress Christian civilization and shape religion into a "private leisure activity".
The Deputy Prime Minister explained that, according to this proposal, religion - especially Christianity - should disappear from the social shaping forces and should be relegated to private life by all means. The mainstream Brussels bureaucracy engages in "specific persecution of Christians" when it wants to remove symbols associated with the Christian religion. In addition, he also strives to push back Christian civilization, to allow as many Muslims as possible into Europe, thereby "completely relativizing" Christianity, he added.
Béla Kató, bishop of the Transylvanian Reformed Church District, István Kovács, bishop of the Hungarian Unitarian Church, László Kerekes, assistant bishop of the Gyulafehérvár Roman Catholic Archdiocese, and philosopher-writer David Lloyd Dusenbury took part in the panel discussion.
Source: MTI
Featured photo: Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and István Kovács, bishop of the Hungarian Unitarian Church. Source: MTI/Nándor Veres
