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To: kinoxi
A rough translation:

"The Giordano Bruno foundation is a non-profit organization, which aims at promoting "evolutionary humanism". It was founded in 2004 by entrepreneur Herbert Steffen and is named after the medieval monk Giordiano Bruno, who had been burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600. As of Nov. 2006 Michael Schmidt-Salomon, author of the "Manifest of evolutionary humanism" is speaker of the committee. From it's inception the foundation followed in the footsteps of church critic Karlheinz Deschner.

The foundation has a decidedly critical attitude towards religion, claiming it "influenced the cultural evolution of mankind in a detrimental way". With its propagation of a "Leitkultur" (See Wikipedia article on Leitkultur) of humanism and enlightenment, it opposes both the idea of a German-christian Leitkultur as well as a politically indifferent multiculturalism.

[...]

One of its long-term projects aims at establishing a representation, a central council of those who belong to neither the Roman-Catholic nor the Lutheran ("evangelical") , the so-called "Konfessionsfreien" (free of denomination).

[...]

The foundation plans on awarding the "Deschner-Preis" for organizations furthering the secular cause.


But you should really give learning German a try, it's one of the world's greatest languages, and, belonging to the same West-Germanic group of languages as English, it isn't that hard.
12 posted on 02/11/2007 4:55:41 PM PST by wolf78
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To: wolf78

Germanic is the basis for English from what I understand. As of now I do not speak German. Thank you for the clarification.


13 posted on 02/11/2007 5:00:07 PM PST by kinoxi
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