Randy and Katy Smelser

Americans living in Germany but citizens of heaven

The Way to Think

The State Church (Lutheran/Reform) pastors, teachers, and religion school teachers were asked about political-ethical questions from a college in Hanover Germany. The results of those responding that the following statements are important for sermons or lessons.

The top of the list:
87% = Creation preservation through Climate protection
83% = Welcoming immigrants
69% = Tolerance for this of different sexual orientation

The bottom of the list:
27% = Better legislation to protect the unborn
24% = An obligation to the German Christian cultural identity
11% = The traditional family model
(IDEA 50.2021)

The Public TV & Radio stations being objective is something that Germany is proud of. Everyone is required to pay a monthly fee to support it. But after a study came out about the worldview and the political stance of the journalist in the "öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk" (the 21 public TV stations and the 74 public radio stations), there is a question in the air of how objective they are/can be and if they are able to look at different sides to an issue.

If there were elections today how would the journalists vote?
57.1% = Greens
23.4% = The Left (the Communist party)
11.7% = The Social Democrats
2.6% = The Christian Union
1.3% = The Federal Democrats (Libertarians)

The top three are left of the middle. The Social Democrats/Greens/Federal Democrats have formed the new government after the more conservative Angela Merkel (the Christian Union) retired.
(IDEA 45.2021)