Hm... Well, they stick with unrealistic dreams and hopes, with things they expect to come out of the blue and rain down on them and make everything suddenly better. Like a messiah. Creating some dreams and hopes and believing in making them true themselves, that's a point that gets more rarer than rare already is.
Religion is a difficult part to tell on as it's not the same everywhere - and as it's a matter of "which religion you ask about?" Within the Muslim communities, I don't see faith fading away. With the Catholic and the Lutheran church I'd say it's different. Numbers of members decrease each year, the Catcholic church I think especially for them covering up what their priests did and do to children (if you know what I mean). On the other hand, I don't see a very big decreasing in faith or being religious at all. People only leave the churches because they don't feel they represent their real life anymore, so they stick with being religious in their own way, but not in the way the churches preach it. I don't think that's a very good circumstance - as people which rely on a God and dream of "one day, it will be different" ( = different out of the blue), they tend to remain in apathy and passivity. They tend to give up and take the world as "we're absolutely powerless, we can't do anything, so let's not think about this or that". Think I even had a very suitable song for that, it's called "Godd" by Marco V.
If you ask me about how much power religion has within the state, I'd tell you it has remarkably a lot. You see that on the difficulties wanting to make a step towards limiting what Islamic religion (or whatever is sold as that) is allowed to do here or other religions or on that circumstance that you can't get it out of the CDU party to finally call their "eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft" for homosexual couples "civil union" too even though several smaller courts declared the legal differences betweeen regular marriage and this all for unlawful and they got the same rights as man-woman married couples. That has always been a religious question and still is a religious question for why they don't want to include it.
And - maybe to say it in the best short words: I think religion is very easily accessible. It is very easy to come to believe in some kind of bullshit, in magic creatures and angels, rather than you get urged to believe in nothing and tell "God? Who is God? Can you eat this?!". In the East it may be better to live as an atheist as there still come the old habits into effect, faith wasn't very dearly seen in the GDR, even though they let believers have their way with days off for religious holidays and such. But quite a lot of people also abused that for getting some extra free time compared to those with no belief. I don't know how to explain; the state kept an eye on church not trying to make politics - which would very probably resulted in them trying to claim politics in the West and therefore bring the whole communist project of a state and society into danger. (It later worked very well for Poland with making a Polish man become the pope of the Catholic church, just mentioning.) Just to say: This something that one has to thank you Russians for. I think that came here in that extent just because Stalin conquered half of Europe. The Americans on the other side of the Brocken mountain didn't take away God out of peoples' heads in West Germany (as America is itself a pretty theorcratic state).
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Date: 31 July 2016 04:04 pm (UTC)Religion is a difficult part to tell on as it's not the same everywhere - and as it's a matter of "which religion you ask about?"
Within the Muslim communities, I don't see faith fading away.
With the Catholic and the Lutheran church I'd say it's different.
Numbers of members decrease each year, the Catcholic church I think especially for them covering up what their priests did and do to children (if you know what I mean).
On the other hand, I don't see a very big decreasing in faith or being religious at all. People only leave the churches because they don't feel they represent their real life anymore, so they stick with being religious in their own way, but not in the way the churches preach it.
I don't think that's a very good circumstance - as people which rely on a God and dream of "one day, it will be different" ( = different out of the blue), they tend to remain in apathy and passivity. They tend to give up and take the world as "we're absolutely powerless, we can't do anything, so let's not think about this or that".
Think I even had a very suitable song for that, it's called "Godd" by Marco V.
If you ask me about how much power religion has within the state, I'd tell you it has remarkably a lot. You see that on the difficulties wanting to make a step towards limiting what Islamic religion (or whatever is sold as that) is allowed to do here or other religions or on that circumstance that you can't get it out of the CDU party to finally call their "eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft" for homosexual couples "civil union" too even though several smaller courts declared the legal differences betweeen regular marriage and this all for unlawful and they got the same rights as man-woman married couples.
That has always been a religious question and still is a religious question for why they don't want to include it.
And - maybe to say it in the best short words: I think religion is very easily accessible. It is very easy to come to believe in some kind of bullshit, in magic creatures and angels, rather than you get urged to believe in nothing and tell "God? Who is God? Can you eat this?!".
In the East it may be better to live as an atheist as there still come the old habits into effect, faith wasn't very dearly seen in the GDR, even though they let believers have their way with days off for religious holidays and such. But quite a lot of people also abused that for getting some extra free time compared to those with no belief.
I don't know how to explain; the state kept an eye on church not trying to make politics - which would very probably resulted in them trying to claim politics in the West and therefore bring the whole communist project of a state and society into danger. (It later worked very well for Poland with making a Polish man become the pope of the Catholic church, just mentioning.)
Just to say: This something that one has to thank you Russians for. I think that came here in that extent just because Stalin conquered half of Europe.
The Americans on the other side of the Brocken mountain didn't take away God out of peoples' heads in West Germany (as America is itself a pretty theorcratic state).