Zitat von
Rheinlaender
Nun, in gewisser Weise, ist die Kirche daran selber schuld, hat sich doch bis weit in 20. Jahrhundert ideologisch weit gegen die Demokratie aus dem Fenster gehaengt (ich habe keine dt. Uebersetzung zur Hand):
"24. Amongst these principles the main one lays down that as all men are alike by race and nature, so in like manner all are equal in the control of their life; that each one is so far his own master as to be in no sense under the rule of any other individual; that each is free to think on every subject just as he may choose, and to do whatever he may like to do; that no man has any right to rule over other men. In a society grounded upon such maxims all government is nothing more nor less than the will of the people, and the people, being under the power of itself alone, is alone its own ruler. It does choose, nevertheless, some to whose charge it may commit itself, but in such wise that it makes over to them not the right so much as the business of governing, to be exercised, however, in its name."
Das ist eine ganz klare Absage an die Begruendung des demokratischen Staates - eine Demokratie muss eine Organisation, die eine solche Ideologie pflegt, als ihren eingeboren Feind ansehen.
Aber weiter:
"34 ... On the question of the separation of Church and State the same Pontiff writes as follows: "Nor can We hope for happier results either for religion or for the civil government from the wishes of those who desire that the Church be separated from the State, and the concord between the secular and ecclesiastical authority be dissolved. It is clear that these men, who yearn for a shameless liberty, live in dread of an agreement which has always been fraught with good, and advantageous alike to sacred and civil interests." To the like effect, also, as occasion presented itself, did Pius IX brand publicly many false opinions which were gaining ground, and afterwards ordered them to be condensed in summary form in order that in this sea of error Catholics might have a light which they might safely follow."
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Wer soweit mit dem Staat "ins Bett geht", dass er von ihm besonderen, aderen Religionne herausehobenen Schutz verlangt, braucht sich nicht wundern, dass wenn dieser Staat faellt, sie auch faellt.
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Es ist mir klar, dass die Kath. Kirche ihre Haltung hier auf dem 2. Vaticanischen Konzil geaendert hat. Aber das war spaeter.