@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:In this case there are people trying to inflict their religion with intimidation, bought politicians, and violence.
Thinking a bit about it, this really is especially interesting against the background of Dresden:
- Christianised in the 9th century,
- Catholic until 1521/1539,
- Evangelical since then (with heavy 'battles' against Reformed Churches until the end of the 18th century - Catholics were just ex-patriated, Reformed Christian send to prison, as minimum sentence)
- from 1948/9 onwards, 90+% Atheists
- today 17% Evangelicals (Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony) and 4% Catholics, about 1,500 Jews.
In Dresden, you've got 84 Christian churches, one large synagogue, one mosque.