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Christmas Eve 2009 Margot Kaessmann went into the sermon in the church market Hannover by a Christmas card series with the slogan "Everything is good!" from. It found:
"Nothing is good in terms of climate, if still dominates the mind: After us the deluge! Nothing is going well in Afghanistan. All of these strategies, they have long away disappointed about the fact that soldiers are now using just one weapon and civilians are killed. ... But creating weapons obviously be no peace in Afghanistan. We need more imagination for peace, for all other forms to manage conflicts. ... No, it's not all good ... when we realize that the poverty risk of children under 15 has risen disproportionately in recent years. ... Nothing is good when in a community so hard, so shameful to seek help. It is not good, no, it's terribly sad that Robert Enke was afraid to treat his depression can be official. ... Nothing is good if we consistently There is an atmosphere of ruthlessness and all must always be strong - such as inhuman! ... "Everything is good" is far too banal. As Christians, we say instead: Everything is lifted to God. I trust that I will never fall lower than in the hand of God "
- Margot Kaessmann. Christmas sermon, 2009 [10]
In the daily press has been played, Käßmann demand a quick withdrawal from Afghanistan. The reason given was a quote Käßmann quoted: "Even under the broadest scale of the Evangelical Church in Germany, this war is not justified, therefore, the violent Dispute be ended as quickly as possible. "[11] Given this statement, she was criticized from different sides vigorously. She herself said that she does not naively demand the immediate withdrawal.
"The Hanover Regional Bishop said that a deployment in Afghanistan is justified only if the civilian component clearly dominate. "The primacy of civilian but is the Army at long questioned and he is completely destroyed, if Germany sends more troops deployment to Afghanistan." She said, "
- source. RP-Online, accessed on 15 January 2010 [12] In her New Year's sermon
2010 [13] (in the Dresden Frauenkirche) Käßmann repeated most of the utterances of the Christmas sermon 2009th These statements caused a controversial response from the public and led to an invitation from the Bishop to the Defence Minister by Guttenberg. Käßmann had been invited earlier by the military chaplaincy to a church service in Afghanistan. The bishop said after talking to Guttenberg, they would probably go along with the Defence Minister. [14]
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