A press release of the CDU/CSU

This time, I'm writing this blog in both English and German, as it concerns a press release I found on Google News, issued by the CDU/CSU party fraction. Here in the Czech Republic, there is a strong negative attitude aganst all that includes a word christian or catholic, mainly in politics. We use not to forgive anyone, including the Roman catholics in the medieval era. The Czechs are the most atheist people in Europe, if not in the entire world. Me including, although I know that faith is one of the most important things in one man's life, there is simply no, I mean zero, tradition in my family, community or place to believe in God. The communist governemnt did a truly good work in removing the remainings of the christian faith in the majority of Czech society and current representatives of the Catholical church miss the charismatics, that great moral leaders have. Thus, the biggest party in wester Europe, the Christian democrats and their derivatives, are a marginal polical force in the Czech republic, I guess that partly thank to their name, because the real politics of the Christian democrats is moderatelly right wing and theological issues play no role in their program. When I read the press release of the CDU/CSU, I liked that tone and could sign every thought in the text. But the second thing is, that I knew right from the first moment, that it doesn't hit the nail on the head here in the Czech republic. Both our greatest political parties (I don't include the communists, for me they don't exist) have very populist programs regarding the attitude to the darker times of our past. They tell what the public wants to hear. Altought I am neither a German nor a christian, I must absolutelly agree with the statements of CDU/CSU and the Czech evangelic church and Christian democratic party.

Nachdem ich heute in einer Pressemitteilung der CDU/CSU gelesen habe, dass die Deutschen eine Entschuldigung der tschechischen Seite zu den Sudettendeutschen begrüssen würden, sage ich, für mich selbst, dass mir die tschechische Aufstellung zu der Vertreibung der Sudettendeutschen nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg sehr tut leid und für die tschechische Position möchte ich mich ehrlich entschuldigen. Dass die Benes Dekrete immer noch gelten, ist für mich unkazeptabel, und auch wenn ihre Beseitigung nach fast 60 Jahren keine Rechtliche Folgen haben kann, wäre es eine positive Gäste von unserem Staat sie endgültig in die Geschichte zu schicken.