Churches in Germany

If you like to visit century old churches and pipe organs, then this is the country for you. Thanks to a federal church tax which is deducted directly from your paycheck, the churches are all well taken care of. They are all quite beautiful, well-kept, with stained glass windows and pipe organs. The only thing these old churches are missing are congregations (…and heat, as well!!). Except on Christmas Eve and perhaps on Easter, relatively few people attend church. I find that amazing, because seemingly every religious holiday on the Catholic calendar is a public holiday here (read: a day off from work).

There are, also,  only 2 segments of the Christian religion here: Catholic and Evangelic (similar to Catholic but without the pope).  They do not have Protestantism here.  Apparently that is the result of the protesters (Martin Luther and his crowd) against the dominant religion who were forced to flee to America. Hence, the name Protest–ants.   Funny, where I grew up no one ever put the accent on the protest part!!

If you like to visit century old churches and pipe organs, then this is the country for you. Thanks to a federal church tax which is deducted directly from your paycheck, the churches are all well taken care of. They are all quite beautiful, well-kept, with stained glass windows and pipe organs. The only thing these old churches are missing are congregations (…and heat, as well!!). Except on Christmas Eve and perhaps on Easter, relatively few people attend church. I find that amazing, because seemingly every religious holiday on the Catholic calendar is a public holiday here (read: a day off from work).

There are, also,  only 2 segments of the Christian religion here: Catholic and Evangelic (similar to Catholic but without the pope).  They do not have Protestantism here.  Apparently that is the result of the protesters (Martin Luther and his crowd) against the dominant religion who were forced to flee to America. Hence, the name Protest–ants.   Funny, where I grew up no one ever put the accent on the protest part!!

If you like to visit century old churches and pipe organs, then this is the country for you. Thanks to a federal church tax which is deducted directly from your paycheck, the churches are all well taken care of. They are all quite beautiful, well-kept, with stained glass windows and pipe organs. The only thing these old churches are missing are congregations (…and heat, as well!!). Except on Christmas Eve and perhaps on Easter, relatively few people attend church. I find that amazing, because seemingly every religious holiday on the Catholic calendar is a public holiday here (read: a day off from work).

There are, also,  only 2 segments of the Christian religion here: Catholic and Evangelic (similar to Catholic but without the pope).  They do not have Protestantism here.  Apparently that is the result of the protesters (Martin Luther and his crowd) against the dominant religion who were forced to flee to America. Hence, the name Protest–ants.   Funny, where I grew up no one ever put the accent on the protest part!!

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