[JudgemAll]

Government should not patronize religion? What else is that religion tax in Germany other than government patronizing and controling religion?

Also as a Christian I have no use for Catholic rituals. Good for them keeping their own memory of Christ alive in their own ways, I have my own ways with Christ.

[silverleaf]

Who is he to dictate rituals and beliefs?
Catholic Eucharist requires certain beliefs not shared by Protestants
No thanks

[tellw]

I am the music teacher at a Catholic school and as a result serve as the choir director and cantor at Mass. I do not receive Communion as I am not Roman Catholic (I was baptized and confirmed the Episcopal Church). I have no problem with the Catholic Church's rule on this; I am a willing and faithful servant to its rules (and want to keep my job obviously!).

However, I also think in general we have made it too easy for Christians to receive Communion every week without truly confessing of their sins, being in a state of grace and loving their neighbors. Even in my own church (Episcopal), I don't always go to receive Communion. If you are attending church and worshiping the Lord through word and song, and receiving blessing (everyone who comes to church does receive a blessing from the minister, usually pronounced at the conclusion of the service) you have already been given a great gift from God. That's why I don't buy these arguments from other protestants about receiving communion in other churches. The sacrament is a glorious thing, but going to church to offer your love the Lord is the first and greatest commandment.

[katana]

A politician should shut his trap. This is from someone whose denomination shares the Eucharist with all believing Christians, in a church where a sizable number of congregants were baptized as Catholics, and who would like the RCC to accept us. For all the Western faithful she’s the Mother Church. But it’s not up to me either and I accept their rules.

[Freelance Warrior]

This interdenominational marriage children's problem simply doesn't exist. The church allegiance isn't a right by birth, it's matter of the personal beliefs. Such children can profess either one's parent's denomination or another's, or their own one. Not all of them. So they can worship in the appropriate Church.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? (2 Corinthians 6:14,15)

[editor-surveyor]

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“Communion” is an invention of men, and nowheres to be found in the Word of Yehova.

So let them do with it what they will.

Yeshua’s “Last Supper” was not “Communion,” it was a traditional Hebrew daily meal. Wine and a barley loaf.

Yeshua’s commandment to his disciples was that each time that they consume such a meal, they do so in remembrance of him. He didn’t say to do it at any special time or place, and he commanded no ‘priest’ to speak any incantation.
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[miss marmelstein]

So now Protestants are an aggrieved group because they cannot receive Communion in a Catholic Church? Or is it just the President of Germany looking for a way to create another “minority group” in SJW fashion?

[Loyalist]

The impulses that motivated the Kulturkampf have never completely disappeared in Germany, even if they are now more motivated by secularism than Lutheranism.