Lutheran Parish Collects Donations To Help Muslims Build Mosque

Christians Believe "Turning the Other Cheek" 
Means Spreading Both Ass Cheeks 
To Help Their Rapist Stick It In

From Vlad Tepes, via RGA:

Hartmut Demski confessed that a few years ago, the thought would not have come to him. However, at the annual reception by the protestant (Lutherian) parish, the superintendent asked the 140 invited guests to donate towards a muslim “house of god”, the one of the Ditib community who planned to build a mosque in Stachelhausen. “Islam has long since arrived in Remscheid”, the lutherian cleric said. 

“We should not hide people who want to pray in the backyards”. The theme of the evening, chosen by the parish for the eve of the Reformation day, is fitting, it is Tolerance and is approached from a muslim as from a Christian position. 

Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide, born in Lebanon, is an islam scientist (sic) at the university of Münster and does no longer wish to accept the overused word of tolerance in the sense of accepting/putting up with. 

“It’s a question of reciprocal recognition and to accept the other as enrichment”, he declared. Prophet mohamed did not want anything else when he, unwelcome, founded a new religion. “It’s not about what is in the birth certificate”, said Khorchide. “It’s about to let the intention of god become reality: Love and compassion”. 

Both were missing for a long time from the side of muslims and Christians. Catholics and Protestants too had to go through a “painful learning process”, the second speaker of the evening declared, Tolerance can only function under the “Dictatorship of Relativism” said Professor Dr. Martin Ohst is church historian and teaches at the University of Wuppertal. 

“The reformation has taught tolerance to society”, he declared. “People must learn to live together constructively”. 

The historian had no doubt that this could only be achieved with what Pope Benedikt called “Dictatorship of Relativism”. 

Professor Ohst formulated it so: “Who regards his own faith, without any skepticism as the only true one, will not achieve a real respect for the faith of others”.

That's quite a phrase the Church Historian uses: "THE DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM".

And he uses it with no irony, no sarcasm, no critical thinking.

Pope Benedict coined the phrase, "Dictatorship of Relativism" as a sort of diagnosis of the disease from which our generation suffers:

We are building a dictatorship of relativism", you declared in your homily at the opening of the conclave [in 2005], "that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate standard consists solely of one's own ego and desires."

That is why we must have the courage to dare to say: Yes, man must seek the truth; he is capable of truth. It goes without saying that truth requires criteria for verification and falsification. It must always be accompanied by tolerance, also. But then truth also points out to us those constant values which have made mankind great. That is why the humility to recognize the truth and to accept it as a standard has to be relearned and practiced again.
The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; this is the central theme of John's Gospel: When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that he himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through his Passion and thereby also implements it.

In a world that has become relativistic, a new paganism has gained more and more dominion over people's thoughts and actions. It has long since become clear not only that there is a blank space, a vacuum, alongside the Church, but also that something like an anti-church has been established. The Pope in Rome, one German newspaper wrote, should be condemned for the sole reason that by his positions he has "transgressed against the religion" that today "is valid in this country", namely, the "civil religion". Has a new Kulturkampf started here, as Marcello Pera has analyzed it? The former president of the Italian Senate speaks about a "large-scale battle of secularism against Christianity".

A new intolerance is spreading, that is quite obvious. There are well-established standards of thinking that are supposed to be imposed on everyone. These are then announced in terms of so-called "negative tolerance". For instance, when people say that for the sake of negative tolerance [i.e. "not offending anyone"] there must be no crucifix in public buildings. With that we are basically experiencing the abolition of tolerance, for it means, after all, that religion, that the Christian faith is no longer allowed to express itself visibly.