Christianity Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament. The Christian faith is essentially faith in Jesus as the Christ (or Messiah), the Son of God, the Savior, the manifestation of God to humankind (Immanuel), and God (Yahweh or the "Lord") himself is the largest religion in Germany Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south with 54,765,265 (67.07%) adherents as of the end of 2006.[1][2] The second largest religion is Islam Islam (Arabic: الإسلام al-’islām, pronounced [ʔislæːm] [note 1]) is the religion articulated by the Qur’an, a book considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of the single incomparable God (Arabic: الله, Allāh), and by the Islamic prophet Muhammad's demonstrations and real-life examples (called the Sunnah, with 3.3 million adherents (4%)[1] followed by Buddhism Buddhism as traditionally conceived is a path of salvation attained through insight into the ultimate nature of reality. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha. Adherents recognize the Buddha as an awakened teacher who shared his and Judaism Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts. Judaism presents itself as the covenantal relationship between the Children of Israel (later, the Jewish nation) and God. During the last few decades, the two largest churches in Germany (the Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 regional Lutheran, Reformed and United Protestant church bodies. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding, because of the denominational differences. But the member churches have full pulpit and altar fellowship among each other or EKD and the Roman Catholic The German Catholic Church, part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, is under the leadership of the Pope, curia in Rome, and the Conference of the German Bishops. The current president of the conference is Robert Zollitsch, the archbishop to Freiburg, the country's second largest diocese with 2.07 million Catholics. The German church, thanks church) have lost significant number of adherents,[citation needed] both churches are down to roughly 30% of the German population. Other churches in Germany are all rather small (less than 0.5%).[citation needed] As a result the number of Germans without a religion has grown and lately Hamburg has joined the eastern states as another state with a non-religious majority.[citation needed]
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Darryl Hart
ue, 11 Aug 2009 19:25:42 GM
the thought dawned on me that one of the significant differences between Pomo's and Fropo's is civil . religion. . That is, is one willing to work with civil . religion. and use it profitably to do battle in the cause of freedom and cultural integrity, or does one see through it as basically a sham ... Yes, the Soviets were atheists and they gave the United States a ready way to show God-fearing Americans the evils of Communism (as if the gulag or East . Germany. were not enough). ...
