Change church financing, strengthen the Christian faith
The AfD wants to put church financing on a new footing and phase out the state's payment of bishops' salaries. It also wants to strengthen the Christian faith, focus religious education on teaching it, and protect Sundays and public holidays.
Today the state pays bishops. The AfD wants to end this. Churches should get their money in a different way. Religion classes should mainly teach the Christian faith. Sundays and holidays should stay protected.
State-funded salaries for bishops and cardinals would end through a compensation arrangement, because the AfD sees them as creating dependence on the state. The platform criticizes the churches for earning money from migration and urges them to stay out of day-to-day politics. Religious education should concentrate on conveying the Christian faith. Church buildings should be preserved as places of worship, cultural venues and monuments. The AfD wants to keep Sundays and public holidays protected.
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„Wir glauben, dass die Finanzierung der Kirchen auf eine andere Basis gestellt werden muss.“Translation: We believe that the financing of the churches must be put on a different basis.
Placement
- Societyleaning conservative
The Christian faith is to be strengthened, religious education focused on it, and Sunday and holiday protection preserved.