The Churches and Politics

How political the churches should be or may be is an evergreen with many facets: the church state is a hybrid of international law subject and God's grace, in Germany there is no state religion other than in Iran, Germany sees itself as a secular democracy, the "centre" as a party of political Catholicism has gone down with the Weimar Republic, the emperor as head of the Evangelical Church of Prussia already a few years before, but the churches …