Staat ohne Gott

State without God is not a polemic, but a controversial analysis. Horst Dreier's thesis is: In modern democracy the state may not identify itself with any particular religion, and it is called Christianity. Only in a state without God can all citizens live in freedom according to their quite different religious or other convictions. A state without God does not therefore mean a world without God, nor does it mean society without God, and certainly not man without God. Rather, it means that the democracy of the Basic Law is completely incompatible with any form of a state of God, a theocracy, a sacred order or a Christian state. Germany's development towards a multi-religious and multicultural society has created new areas of conflict between the followers of different faiths and between them and the .