„Wer sich auf Jesus Christus einlässt, hat die Gegenformel zu allen Ideologien gefunden“.
(Zitat des Augsburger Bischofs Walter Mixa, Ostern 2009)
Also ich habe ja schon vieles gelesen. Mögliche und unmögliche Behauptungen aller Couleur. Und allen ist gemein, dass man, wenn man sich auf die jeweilige Denkweise wahrhaft einlässt, die dahinter stehenden Motivationen versteht. Irgendwie hat jeder Recht. Jeder auf seine Weise. Jeder Man is in his inimitable way disturbed enough to fall for a variety, degree and severity of his disorder corresponding ideologies.
tolerance is therefore usually called for. Every person in his uniqueness plays more or less skillfully his instrument in the full orchestra of humanity.
But in this case, dear readers, it's different. The words of Bishop Mixa require a response. Clarification. One observation made in historical context.
is the starting situation considering the Easter sermon in 2009 Bishop of Augsburg, in which he set up the claim that the inhumanity of the Nazi regime a sequence of at that time practiced atheism was. Translation: In his view, the millions of mass murder never happened if the churches and their representatives the power had been held. In the name of Jesus.
If you ask me this Jesus has done for me has always been suffering. nailed to the wall of each classroom Bavarian we find him. Generation after generation grew up with the image of a tortured to death before his eyes. Even as a child I found it purely emotionally somehow not right, especially since we live in a country run in which dying and death a secret and treacherous existence. Concealed, suppressed. Why do not try to set up the urn of your great grandmother on the mantelpiece! Even if this a natural Death should be dead, you will make the clerk's office upset by the bill and demand a decent burial. And even if you should be Catholic, it seems doubtful that grandma would go through ash as a holy relic.
Only Jesus. With it you can do anything. In wood, carved in stone, clay kneaded or painted on canvas. Granted, these are all just images. But such work, the more devastating than one filled with ash vase with lid on your mantel.
Who wants that his children could be led as lambs to the slaughter? And in the tradition of Jesus held out his left cheek when they were beaten on the rights?
fight all of these concerns are, so you argue, there's Easter. Yes! Easter! Resurrection! Hope! New life! The executed man gets up so easy, after three days - is his way!
Easter a truly Christian celebration, right? What, however, is already the previous unsavory nailing of a living person in two hewn wooden cross beams? Jesus gave us for Easter, right? Chocolate eggs, extra holidays and clogged highways?
Far from it: We celebrate Easter nothing urheidnisches as a spring festival! By the way: It's very strange that Jesus was born just around the time of the winter solstice and to have died for Ostarafest, right?
In the environment of two parties, therefore, which already enjoyed in pre-Christian times special meaning?
All this is somewhat off-topic. So back to Bishop Mixa and his claim that mass murder and the belief in a poor murdered were incompatible.
This statement reflects a historical ignorance that borders on audacity.
Suppose only time the Middle Ages and his witch hunts. Or the Catholic Church sanctioned by the "discovery" and "conquest" of America. Well, a few million dead is just unfortunate. At least all these acts served a good purpose: the dissemination of the Bible. The theft of gold. Is long been barred, like the good will argue.
but the rat lines are also the already time-barred? The escape routes, the senior representative of the church many Nazi criminals have open? Thanks to active participation of the church could avoid some perpetrators to justice. Since it is somehow comforting, if you believe in a heavenly court.
No, Bishop Mixa: This sermon was more than wrong! Jesus Christ, or what have made his representative on earth of him is no protection against ideologies. Rather, it is the mother of all ideologies. The general truth claims of the churches speak for themselves. And their priests should be ashamed mit dem Blut eines Gekreuzigten ihre Geschäfte zu betreiben. Es ist zwar schwierig, so etwas wie Mitgefühl zu entwickeln für einen Menschen, der vor etwa 2000 Jahren durch sein elendes Sterben eine Geschäftsgrundlage geschaffen hat. Unmöglich aber ist es nicht.
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