| List of queries: Why I ´m a member of the church |
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Please make up your mind how much you can accept the following statements: |
| I ´m a member of the church, because... |
| ...I was christened and educated in a religious way |
The religios faith of a person may nerver depens of the chance of birth, but faith has to be the result of a clear freedom of will. |
| ...I have got a positive attitude against the church. |
| Please realize your position against the church. You have not to give up your faith, when you leave the church. |
| ...I ´m engaged in my parish and I ´m feeling well and safe there. |
| I don´t oppose enthusias for club live, but you may not neglect the background. |
| ...I ´ve got a critical position in my church. But I don´t want to go because I want to work for reforms in my church. |
| Your efforts are really honorable, but even a man like Martin Luther failed by his attempt to reform the church. |
| ...I am a Christ . |
| There are a lot of Christs saying that they can only be a Christ, because they ´ve left the church. |
| ...I am convinced of the Christian moral. |
In fact you cannot only speak in a negatve way about Christinanty, but the virtues the Christian churches claime are not typical Christian. |
| ...The church helps a lot of suffering people and administrates social institutions. |
| The church had often caused misery of people and spents only 8 % of its income for social purposesses. |
| ...I want to marry in a church. |
In fact the stately registrar´s office has not got the same ambiente like a romantic old church. But are you really willing to pay such a high price for a showy wedding? |
| ...I cannot leave the church because of my job. |
Please prove how much money you had to pay for the church. Perhaps there will be in later times the possibility to reclaim the money from church. |
| ...I want to buried by a priest one day. |
The insincerity - especially by funerals is really terrific. We should neglect it! |
| ...I ´ve never thought about it, it´s only a tradition. |
| Well done. You´ve made the first step to the correct direction. Whren yor are reading this text, you think about it. |
| ...I want to protect Europe against the rising Islam. |
Christianity has nothing to offer people who are locking for a real religious satisfaction. The coming - up of other religions can´t be prevented. |
| ...my children shall be Christianed, because they shall not become outsiders. |
If there are still reactionary people who thin so, you should discus this theme with. You ´ll have got the better arguments! |
| ...the church shall play an important part in our state and society still in future, because the church stands for the state and democracy. |
| The church is always serving the regime that feeds the church. The church had always been opportunistic. |
| ...I can´t leave church because am private reasons. |
In this case look for a reasinable discussion with your relatives. If this will not be successful, you can forget them all the same. |
| ...I don´t pay taxes at all, because I ´m (for a example) inly a houswife.. |
You should not leave church only because of fiscal reasons. There are a lot of moralic reasons besides them. |