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Quote:Norway’s priests on strike: “We are very worried about the Church’s future”
Pastor and deputy leader of the trade union Theologians Heinke Foertsch with several other church employees, trooped up outside the Cathedral in Oslo on Saturday to explain why they are on strike.
The background is that the employer wants to deprive new employees of a permanent wage compensation of between NOK 40,000 and NOK 60,000.
“This is a strike for the Church of the future. We experience that it is very unfair and difficult that you now want to do it in such a way that new priests receive a much lower starting salary than we who are working now,” Jensen said.
Norway already has a shortage of priests. The striking priests are worried about the recruitment and the signal sent to students in the seminary.
“One third of the clergy are over 60 years old… The employer says that in four years, we may be short of 200 priests,” leader Martin Enstad in the Priests’ Association emphasized.
“We are sure that this cut will lead to us not being able to recruit new priests. This weakens recruitment. The Church requires six years of academic education,” he added.
In the week ahead, the strike is scheduled to escalate to several churches across the country.
A number of Christmas services and other church activities are in danger of not being carried out.
“I should have baptized a child in Ullern church on Sunday morning. There, the bishop has stepped in to carry out the work. The funerals come continuously,” parish priest Jorunn Andersen in Ullern parish in Oslo said.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
