The Protestant Church Congress is a solemnity of exclusion
By Alexander Kissler (May 2nd, 2025)
A Protestant Church Congress could be the simplest thing in the world. The name could describe what goes on there. Protestant Christians get together to talk about their faith. Far from it.
Today, it is mainly left-wing or green politicians who meet alongside left-wing or green activists to explain to left-wing or green moderators why left-wing or green thinking is a fabulous thing. In this respect, a church congress is the perfect ideological circular economy. Christianity has bad cards in this evangelical church.
Feminism, Queerness, Gender-German
The more people leave the Protestant church, the more defiantly it insists on its course. Demand is falling. But instead of improving the supply, they are rearranging the shelf warmers and wiping the floor with a damp cloth. Nothing is changed about the products.
Wherever it says Protestant Church on the label, the fight against climate change and right-wing populism should still be inside. Feminism, queerness and gender-German are free extras: no Kirchentag without “brass players [Brass-Spieler:innen]" and "pastors [Pastor:innen]" [German genderized versions added].
Let's not misunderstand each other: The church of the green-left mindset is also allowed to celebrate its liturgies. (BUT) uniformity is not manna. Those who claim diversity should not practice the opposite. Unholy simplicity [or unholy smoke]. The milieu of the Protestant Church Congress is becoming increasingly narrow.
From the lexicon of do-gooders
Now, in Hanover, the focus is on how to “recognize and deconstruct right-wing extremist codes” and take “courageous and bold action against the right”. The Bible is no longer the authoritative scripture, but the lexicon of do-gooders. Only in it is it enough to be right-wing to be ostracized. The Protestant Church Congress is a celebration of exclusion.
No wonder politicians from the SPD and the Greens like to attend. After Federal President Steinmeier, the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and Social Democrat Weil explained what he would like to see: a Protestant alliance against so-called hate preachers [or hate speakers] - and these are always the others.
What an ideological circular economy! Blaming others for a crisis by accusing them of blaming others. Your head spins in Hanover, you get dizzy thinking about it.
This also applies to the admission by left-wing politician Bodo Ramelow. Incidentally, the president of the Kirchentag is a former Green cabinet colleague of Ramelow's from Thuringia - and Ramelow himself is speaking in Hanover alongside a Green author about the exclusion of the AfD.
The AfD must stay outside. Ramelow and the audience think that's fine. Because, according to Ramelow, the AfD doesn't want to discuss anything. I ask myself: how do you know that if you don't invite anyone? So the forums at the Kirchentag have to make do without representatives of the currently strongest party.
With Ataman and Neubauer
On the other hand, a “pastor” who educates people about gender diversity; experts on “intersectionality” and “polyamory”, a prostitute who calls herself “Mary of Magdala”, anti-discrimination commissioner Ferda Ataman, activist Luisa Neubauer and lots of migration advocates will be present.
Katrin Hatzinger, head of the EKD's Brussels office, says it here: From the point of view of the Protestant Church, migration is the norm - and that apparently includes illegal migration. Immigration should merely be organized, i.e. managed. And this is done through social policy.
Migration appears to be a lever for a different society. In this respect too, the green-left dogmas tolerate no contradiction. If you are interested in Christianity, it is better to avoid this Protestant church.