Like Jesus Christ, all Christian people and Institutions are in the situation of the famous temptation and this now since 2000 years... but the religious hope is:
"deliver us from evil" meaning: not to give in to the temptation.
The CHURCH OF TODAY.
The RC-World-Church, our Diocese of Windhoek, the Community of St. Anthony
(on the 09.03.14) and many more all over,
a) We have a problem-situation! The FAMILY is in crisis, in trouble, in failure; in our world...not respected any more, undervalued (it's an view accepted all over!)
b) We have a goal: "a healthy family" (as a gym for life-skills etc...)
c) Which strategy (to achieve our goal) did we execute ? (at least until now)
Temptation I : We ask the Almighty, His Son + His Mother they may solve the problem by using the God-power. We propose like the devil: If you are almighty
please: increase... grant us ... teach families... make them... help them... protect your... grant that... teach us... give us... (look at the Diocesan prayer for the year of the family; 2 pages!)
The NO of Jesus, his resistance to use God's power to solve the problem has disappeared. To open the eyes, to use the God-given hands (and brain), to respect the creation law (education), and to be fascinated by an attractive God's image...
all is forgotten. The RCC has succumbed to the first temptation already...
It's the proposal of Satan to solve the problem by Intervention of the God-power
(supposed the human beings are for nothing good; declared as not able to solve the problem), by cancellation of the natural-creation Law, by attraction of sin...Mt 4 !
and the RCC shows in public the same proposal !
A National Prayer-Day (06.03.2014)
Following the example of the Christian Churches, the secular State of Namibia has done exactly the same.
a) We have a problem.... GBV (gender-based-violence)
b) and like the devil, like the Church, the Secular State proposes: the Power of the Almighty may solve the problem (prayer day / "prayer is the only solution").
c) Is there really no other solution ? Or is "prayer-day" for the Government the cheapest and politically the most effective solution?
d) Following the Constitution and in respect of the Christian Gospel the Secular State has no right in public to call for the Power of the Almighty to solve problems..
the Secular State has to respect the Religion but not to use it! also not to his own favour; also not in favour of the Common Good. We are not a Theocracy.
The Secular State is obliged to find other problem-solving strategies.
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