Whether Christian electorate in Europe exists? Church, Believers and Politicians

Abstract

In the article analyzed the problem of the religiously motivated voting on European elections, in particular, on the elections to the European Parliament. The representatives of the Churches don’t have the prepared answer on the challenges of the European crisis except the obligatory following to the Christian roots. Therefore the Christianity as the base of the European idea interpreted in different ways and the Christian Democracy went far from the Christianity, converted it into symbol. In that situation the fundamental thing for the Christian communities is European identity. In gratitude to the consolidated position of the Churches and false or true threat of the islamization – the unity of Europe remains the definite ideological value. Besides that the definition of identity itself step by step filling with the content, transferred from the rhetoric of the «populists» to rhetoric of those that are directly responsible for the constructing of the European Union. From the more attention to the questions of the national sovereignty and identity will depend the transformation of the European idea and the creating of the consciousness of the new Europeans.

Keywords

• migration
• interreligious dialogue
• christianity
• protestantism
• orthodoxy
• catholicism
• church-state relations