Posted on 09/15/2006 5:24:02 PM PDT by Mount Athos
It sounds like a positive development.
"Approximately two thirds of the 82 million citizens are church members. About 26 million are Roman Catholics, and a similar number are Protestants."
So much for those who proclaim doom. Most of my own friends are God believing, but don't often attend churches.
Across Europe, the bad deeds of muslims are likely causing many people to re-examine their own beliefs.
Seeing death threats against their own German Pope can't help the cause of islam with Germans.
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