The Coronavirus has brought the question of our dealing with the freedom to sometimes a frightening way to the centre. The massive restrictions we have been exposed to in the past few weeks, a restriction on a fundamental freedom meant rights, is not disputed by anyone. Even more amazing is that it is taken up today by a large majority of people, Yes active, Yes. Meanwhile, there are, of course, the other votes – and it is only a conspiracy are not theorists or Right – or left-wing extremists – that keep the action exaggerated.
definitely apply to us today, that freedom is, sometimes, to follow against political and religious authorities of the own Conscience and also disadvantages. What in the “Here I stand, I can not showed differently,” Martin Luther before the Emperor in 1521 at the diet of Worms in an equally pious as a political act of moral courage that we need today just as Christians in the civil society. Wouldn’t have been the massive freedom restrictions during the last weeks of the occasion, to show exactly in the case of this topic, the healthy Dose of public rebelliousness of an Institution such as the Church, we need again and again?
my answer to this question is a no, has to do with an understanding of freedom, in the freedom of always service is the Next. It is not about the pursuit of one’s own personal or economic or religious interests, but it is different depending on the Form of the answer to Jesus ‘ double commandment of love.