>>7641994It's basically the "mainstream" protestant church, there are also smaller Baptists and "Freikirchen" groups that are organized differently, but I don't know much about them what's going on in them. Reformation was a mistake. The thing about the big churches in Germany (EKD, Catholic) is that they are "Gebietskörperschaften" or "Parafiscus". That means they are basically semi-autonomous entities within the state that can collect they own income directly from citizens (this case, church members).
Basically on par with a state-owned telecommunication company, or public insurance company that collects their own fees.
Yet separation of church and state is a thing somehow; you cannot wear religious symbols in school for example (except bavaria, they're so catholic they're basically poles).
Some groups are already lobbying against it, because, wearing a hijjab in school is "empowering" for women, and not being able to in school is "discrimination". No fucking sign of solidarity with women in Iran who get punished for refusing to wear it, of course.
