Abbots think


yes what do abbots mean:


bene fickenus

In German, well-fucked. I learned that in school, because I have a basic Latinum. Because a close relative of my maternal grandmother was a Benedictine abbot. And she absolutely wanted me to become an abbot, too. What would I have meant as an abbot then? Even without being an abbot, I mean the same thing as Pope Francis:


disarms the words


because war rhetoric leads to war


I probably had the idea when I was about 14, in 1960. But I can hardly remember it. Perhaps I didn't. The conclusion is as trivial as it is true. War rhetoric for propaganda purposes can lead to war. Or perhaps in most cases, it does. With enough war rhetoric, war is born from rhetoric.


and because the Benedictine Abbot Brother Nicodemus took Pope Francis's words to heart.

Because war rhetoric War arises

We give peace

a home again

Peace in Jerusalem, many of them dream of it, not only

Abbots

The idea that war rhetoric can lead to war was already shared by Sahra Wagenknecht in 2022. The war rhetoric had spread in Germany from a party that calls itself Christian,

German Christians

and in the

CDDRU

are organized

The war rhetoric of the

"German Christians

from the Third Reich, contributed to the catastrophe of World War II. The exact number of deaths is not known. Perhaps as many as 50 million. Of course, war propaganda

German Christians.


was not the sole cause of the outbreak of the Second World War. But Christians also contributed their share. From all over the world. The proportion of war propaganda from

today's German Christians

in the political party of the German Christian Union - CDU - among the many other factors that led to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine was significantly higher than the share of non-Christian parties in Germany with the

Weaponizing words = war rhetoric

Disarming war rhetoric

  durch contemporäre  deutsche Christen gering . Aber die Folgen waren kathastphe gerechnt in Toten verletzten und Sachschäden war katastrohal. die (frei) herumlaufenden deutschen Kristen hätten keine Kriegsrhetorik halten sollen. 

weildenn a Kriegsrhetori