Elections!

In Sweden we just had an election to the Church!

In this election you can vote for many different organisations and political parties that later on will dictate what kind of Church the Swedish Lutheran Church will be like.

Strange since the state and Church was separated years ago.

In the secular society we have here today, politicians have for many years neglected the Church. Some politicians have even back talked the Church.

But the Church is a good platform to be seen and heard so politicians want to use the Church for their own agendas, they want to control it.

Yesterday there was a debate between politicians about this election, many of them are not regular churchgoers, some are not believers or even Christians, but they are seeking for power and influence of the Church.

When you read what the different political initiatives want to do with the Church there are ideas such as: "that the Church should be more green, solar panels on the roofs, or " the Church should have a more socialist structure", or " Baptisms and funerals should be more easy, and one political initiative want the Church to" be more open and welcoming to other religions".

When a christian newspaper was searching on some of these political initiatives websites for the word "Jesus" the text " Sorry but no results were found" came up.


It sounds like this came from a film about a dark future ,The Church of Sweden is governed by open elections of the citizens of Sweden - and not by any ecclesiastical body. Atheists and other interest groups vote, and the "Church" follows the latest trends, not God and yes I find it very scary.