The churches do not want to create a legal system different from the state.
They do let the authorities know who is living at their buildings. Also, most of
those living there for 6 months are given asylum. This may tell us something
about the quality of the first asylum procedures. Unfortunately, present
negotiations between the state and the churches may not bring a solution to
the current problem of mass immigration, in particular of those coming across
the Mediterranean. The authorities have been making the task of the
churches more difficult by now suggesting that they must look after their
guests for 18 months, a huge financial burden for most churches. Churches
also need to recognise, that loving one’s neighbour without conditions cannot
be the answer for our modern states to the present mass immigration.
However, the churches are trying to counter the authority of the state ‘with
the authority of the loving Christ’, as one theologian said, ‘and that sanctuary
needs to be a necessary sting in the flesh of a state based on law’.
BW
(Using an article in FAZ 14 February 2015)
Words! Words! Words!
L
exophilia is a word used to describe the condition of having a love for
words, such as “you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish”, or “to write
with a broken pencil is pointless”.
A competition to see who can come up with the best lexophiles is held every
year at an undisclosed location.
This year’s winning submission is written in bold!
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months
The batteries were given free of charge
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail!
Police were summoned to a day care centre where a toddler was
resisting a rest
A boiled egg is hard to beat
The guy who fell on an upholstery machine is now fully recovered!
Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in
the end
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