Posted on 02/24/2013 4:29:07 PM PST by Enza Ferreri
In Germany, architecture is being "de-Christianized". Entire new neighbourhoods and urban areas are being built without a church in them: churches are just not planned in the projects, as if nobody even thought of them.
The German Catholic news site Kreuz reports on this phenomenon with examples from an article by architecture critic Dankwart Guratzsch in the daily Die Welt.
In Stuttgart, a large new district was built for 12,000 residents without a church.
In Hamburg, another new neighbourhood for 12,000 residents was created without a church. Not only that: to realize this project, 19 churches were closed down, probably because they were in the way. Made disappear in the blink of an eye. Under the pretext that nobody had requested them.
Some people, however, did protest, and to make them happy they were provided with a small chapel with just thirty chairs, hidden on the ground floor of a battered-facade office building.
This does not look like an accident, but a plan to make the signs of Christian faith disappear in a cold, calculated, cruel way.
Writing in Die Welt, Guratzsch quotes the son of the great philosopher Hegel, Immanuel Hegel, who advised: "Build churches!". Because, adds Guratzsch: "To build churches means to build communities. When the faithful are deprived of the visible testimony of public recognition of their values, the latter are also weakened for the believers themselves".
Guratzsch recalls how the same was happening during the time of the German Democratic Republic, communist Germany: churches were being demolished to humiliate, offend, isolate religion and inculcate atheism.
A Europe without churches and without strong Christian roots and values will be much more vulnerable to a threat similar to communism: Islamization.
God has moved His lamp stands (Rev. 1:12) from Europe. They will be plunged into the darkness that is the history of that warring continent.
The downfall of churches and religion in Germany, has much to do with govt interference and support... tithing for example is taken directly out of your paycheck in Germany, unless you officially resign from the church.
The church’s rely on the government for their support, so it’s no wonder that no one feels individually bound to them.
For many, church affiliation is just one more form of taxation.
They can’t eliminate the church - as long as there are families there will be domestic ones.
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