Last evening ARD, German television showed a wonderful film about a group of young people, tired and disappointed with life in the former GDR.
The protest began with an environmental aspect, with the young people objecting to the solution in the rive Pleise in Leipzig. They met in a Protestant church in the city. At first the minister objected to their political overtures.
They were all young, some of them still in school. Some went to jail on trumped up charges.
In the end their enthusiasm, their idealism, their youthfulness won out and defeated an old worn-out establishment that had nothing more, nothing new to offer the people.
Watching it, it was impossible not to think in sadness of the state of churches today in Ireland.
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