Die meisten Werte, die uns allen wichtig waren und sind,
finden wir nicht allein bei den Christen, zumal sie zumeist viel älter sind als
das Christentum, oft direkt vom Judentum übernommen. Und es ist nur gut, dass
diese Werte Einzug halten konnten in die Erklärung der Menschenrechte und auch
Muslimen wichtig sind.
Sorge machte uns, wenn Menschen ihre Weltsicht auf
alternativen Fakten und Verschwörungstheorien aufbauen. Wie sollen wir damit
umgehen? Zuhören und nachfragen. Immer wieder. Demokratie ist nichts, was man
ein für alle Mal besitzt; sie muss fortlaufend erarbeitet werden. Uns Christen
gibt unser Glaube die Gewissheit, dass die Welt, die uns mitunter Angst machen
kann, in Christus überwunden ist.
*** Yesterday
we ended our Bible dialog on the subject „In the World you will have trouble“.
It was about values and whether the values we treasure so much are actually
genuinely Christian. Most are of course directly adopted from Judaism and
thankfully we also find them in the Declaration of Universal Human Rights. We did not always agree on the limits of tolerance, but with
Christians and Muslims from Eastern and Western Europe, it is no surprise that
we had a lot to learn from and about each other. Dialogue, after all, does not mean to have the same views, but to learn about the views of one another. Did things look better in the
"good old days"? For some, the old days also meant that women had to ask their
husbands if they were allowed to take a job (in Germany until the 1970s); for
Yugoslavians, the 1990s meant the end of a peaceful community and the beginning
of a brutal civil war with wounds that even today have not completely healed.
And today, there are people who build their idea of the world on alternative facts and
conspiracy theories. We realize that democracy and freedom are never anything
that one has once and for all. They need constant work and a firm stand. Christians
see faith as a gift from God. It gives us the certainty that no matter what
troubles we have in the world, in Christ, they will be overcome.