Quotations from the Bible can be seen on the dome of the recently reconstructed Berlin City Palace, the "predecessor" and "successor" of the GDR's Palace of the Republic. They are located all around the tambour, in gold lettering on a blue background.
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, however, considers the Christian symbols on the Berlin Palace to be not "cosmopolitan" and therefore inappropriate.
The Green politician, who made headlines earlier this year through her subtle stance for and implicit glorification of anti-Semitism at this year's documenta, wants to make the Bible words disappear and overwrite them with other texts. "An art project for the temporary superimposition of the reconstructed inscription with alternative, commenting and reflective texts" is being worked on, she wrote to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at their request. She did not write exactly what these texts should look like.
The quotations from the Bible were selected by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1795-1861) and reconstructed on the dome in 2020. The golden banner is composed of two Bible verses, Philippians 2:10 and Acts 4:12:
"And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, which are in heaven and on earth and under the earth.”The inscription drew criticism from the outset. Those Christian words would exclude other religions, they said. The state-run "Foundation for the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace" then placed a plaque next to the dome on the roof terrace with the following text:
"All institutions in the Humboldt Forum expressly distance themselves from Christianity's claim to sole validity and sovereignty, which the inscription expresses."But that wasn't enough for Claudia Roth. She repeatedly emphasized that both the words from the Bible and the golden cross, which was installed on the top of the dome in 2020 following the completion of the reconstruction, contradict the “cosmopolitanism” that characterizes the Humboldt Forum, the museum that is home to the palace. "I wanna tackle it," she said on February 21, 2022 in an interview with the "Tagesspiegel". So, now she started tackling "it" and the Bible words are going to be "superimposed".
It is strange how the federal government, under the leadership of Fatima Roth, is campaigning against words that have been in the Holy Scriptures for 2000 years and which she obviously does not understand at all.
The Berlin Palace was reconstructed, as commissioned by the Bundestag in 2007. But as soon as the reconstructing began in 2013, it was immediately combatted. Inside, any ambition of reconstruction has been thwarted, and the original decoration should no longer exist in the surrounding area, but an Indian gate instead.
It should be noted that according to the preamble to the German Constitution, Christianity is the de-facto state religion. Someone who works for the federal government actually ought to know and obey that.
Moreover, the prayer hall of the Cologne Central Mosque, run by the Erdogan regime via DİTİB, is adorned with the following calligraphy in Arabic letters:
"You are our protector. So help us enforce victory over the unbelievers."The Greens refuse steadfastly to "superimpose" that inscription because they deem every word of criticism of that writing "racist" and "IsLaMoPhObIc". (To you Americans, who have absolutely no clue of European Islam(ism): By "unbelievers", Moslems usually mean Christians and Jews in particular.)
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