Posted on 11/17/2010 7:30:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans debating Muslim integration to stand up more for Christian values, saying Monday the country suffered not from "too much Islam" but "too little Christianity."
Addressing her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, she said she took the current public debate in Germany on Islam and immigration very seriously. As part of this debate, she said last month that multiculturalism there had utterly failed.
Some of her conservative allies have gone further, calling for an end to immigration from "foreign cultures" -- a reference to Muslim countries like Turkey -- and more pressure on immigrants to integrate into German society.
Merkel told the CDU annual conference in Karlsruhe that the debate about immigration "especially by those of the Muslim faith" was an opportunity for the ruling party to stand up confidently for its convictions.
"We don't have too much Islam, we have too little Christianity. We have too few discussions about the Christian view of mankind," she said to applause from the hall.
Germany needs more public discussion "about the values that guide us (and) about our Judeo-Christian tradition," she said. "We have to stress this again with confidence, then we will also be able to bring about cohesion in our society."
References to the CDU's Christian roots and "Christian view of mankind" are standard in party convention speeches, but the phrases have become more frequent in recent months as Germany has been gripped by a heated debate over Islam and immigration.
DEFINING CULTURAL IDENTITY
The debate began last summer when former Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin published a bestselling book arguing that Muslim immigrants were simple-minded welfare spongers who threatened the country's economy and its long-term future.
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the lack of spiritual revival, the lack of spiritual influence in the world has left a void; a void for Islam and false religious cults to fill.
“Not enough Christianity” said Angela Merkel. In the USA there is not enough genuine, spiritual Christianity.
Amen!
“’Not enough Christianity’ said Angela Merkel. In the USA there is not enough genuine, spiritual Christianity.”
I was hearted when I heard her say it. And, I must say, John Leland 1789, I couldn’t agree with you more. Fine observation! May many others, especially those who sit in the pews and support so much of the nonsense coming from preachers today wake up and, as the Greek proselytes once asked of Philip, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus,” demand of their pastor, “Sir, we wish to hear Jesus.” Or better yet, “Sir, we would hear Jesus, or you will no longer see our offerings.”
Is that all?!!
Wow- what’s up with Merkel recently! She really seems to have a grown a set and she wears them well LOL.
Mel
Can you imagine Obama saying this? He, of course, won’t say this, but this is what he believes: “what we need is more Islam and less Christianity.”
Ahhh!!! Spot on!!!
I can only add that motives you describe are most likely only the surface motives we see and the true problem lies even deeper.
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