Can European leaders do without religious guidance? Hungarian politician does not think so
European leaders will “remain on the wrong path”, serving economic interests over communities, without the guidance of religious communities, the state secretary for church and minority relations said in Budapest on Friday.
Miklós Soltész told a conference organised as part of Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the European Union that selfishness had come to the fore in Europe’s leadership, and “ideologies that are twisting the interests of the created world” had emerged.
He said the EU’s migration policy also threatened the continent, arguing that it aimed to address the bloc’s labour shortage problems instead of the EU providing unconditional help to migrants’ countries of origin. Cardinal Péter Erdő, the Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, highlighted the changes seen in the legal handling of religion and religious communities in certain European countries.
He said that in certain countries religious education had been turned into education about religion and a “cultural offer” suggesting not just civic equality and equal human dignity, but also the “relativity of religious belief”. Bishop József Steinbach, president of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary, said the biggest challenge in Christian service was reaching those who had completely different views of the world.
Andor Grósz, the head of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities Mazsihisz, said that since Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel a year ago, anti-Semitism in many countries had reached a high not seen for decades. But while surveys showed that 76 percent of Jews in the EU avoided wearing clothing that could be identified as Jewish, the Jewish community in Budapest felt safe to practise their faith because the Hungarian government guaranteed their safety.
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The Real Person!
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Smart people does nor need these kind of “guidance” just take a look to the latest nobel prizes. And actually, why to mix religion with politics? Those medieval times are already in the past. Religions just create conflicts even today.
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Politicizing religion always ends in tears, but an irreligious society is just as bad. Our civilization was built and thrived on Judeo-Christian values, and it became the most successful civilization in mankind’s entire history, by every measure. Take that away and you’re left with nothing but mindless consumerism, bureaucratic authoritarianism, cynicism, and nihilism.
We don’t need theocratic zeal pervading public life but we do need cultural religiosity.
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The term “Judæo Christian” was first used in a letter from Reverend Alexander McCaul, a guy who is known for being a missionary to the Jews. He wrote: “From all I can see there is but one way to bring about the object of the Society, that is by erecting a Judæo Christian community, a city of refuge, where all who wish to be baptized could be supplied with the means of earning their bread.”
Baptizing Jews??? Hm. So much for the “Judæo” element. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv16t6k0p
Since more of us are actually in awe of old Republican leaders … Let´s consider President Eisenhowe. In a 1954 letter, he cautioned his brother against the term “Judaic-Christian” heritage: “You speak of the ‘Judaic-Christian heritage.’ I would suggest that you use a term on the order of ‘religious heritage’—this is for the reason that we should find some way of including the vast numbers of people who hold to the Islamic and Buddhist religions when we compare the religious world against the Communist world.”
Sounds sensible, does it not? Or are we actively shutting out other religions? If so, why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/the-judeo-christian-tradition-is-over/614812/
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Civilizations thrive with humanism.
Religions cause more harm than good in civilizations. We need more humanism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism