The Konrad Adenauer Foundation of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) could not have chosen a worse time to publish its debate paper entitled “United in Faith? It distributed this paper a few days after the – it must be said – slaughter of a French teacher by an eighteen-year-old “Allahu-Akbar” Islamist. The question mark behind the title, which signals balance and neutrality, does not change this timing. Especially since the telephone survey among 3,003 participants conducted by the Berlin Market and Social Research Institute dates from October 15 to February 28, 2019, which means that the results should have been available for a whole year.The summary, which we are quoting literally here, is intended to make people sit up and take notice: “Muslims and Christians, especially Catholics, show many similarities overall. They believe in God and in life after death. In addition, religious traditions such as church baptism, church marriage…
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