Religion: New Idea

What is meant by original sin?

Isn't it arrogant to consider the

Christian religion the only true one?

If God is almighty and everything predestined, why do we have a free will?

Every week at a castle-like villa, overlooking the Elbe near Hamburg, such age-old questions are being asked as ingenuously as if they had never been asked before. The answers given are as eagerly received as if they were dazzling scientific discoveries. The questioners—young Germans brought up in Nazi paganism—find Christianity an exciting new idea.

St. Michael's House, once the villa of a Hamburg patrician, is a school where German youths in the...

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