Da die Vertreter von CDU und CSU welche die Rückkehr religiöser Werte ins öffentliche und private Leben verlangen so unheimlich blöd sind, bleibt natürlich wieder einmal alles an mir hängen. Allein auf weiter Flur als einzige ernstzunehmende Stimme der Reaktion, muß ich die Argumente liefern für das, was jene nur einfach so vor sich hinblöken. Glücklicherweise gibt es da noch einen Text aus meinem vierten Semester. Leider ist er auf Englisch und wird also wohl nur die Elite erreichen. Aber was soll's:

This essay will argue that it would be a good idea for everyone to go to church every week since this would support people in their attempts to lead perfectly balanced and orderly lives full of spiritual enlightenment.
Going to church regularly, if possible every week, is a useful help for giving some structure to the schedule of your Sundays as well as the whole of your week. Many people need this kind of help; there are thousands of all ages out there whose Sundays are nothing more than empty shapes, pretending to be pleasant days of leisure, but in fact being the regular emphasis to life’s bitter meaninglessness. These people abhor Sundays – at least subconsciously they do, as to those who would never admit it. Very often they spend the nights between Saturday and Sunday drinking immeasurable amounts of alcoholic beverages. As soon as the day dawns they make it into their bedrooms to lie down and sleep until night falls again onto the cursed stage where the miserable play they have to call their life is being performed. Night seems to ease their pain, possibly hiding the vilest of humiliations life has in store. What these poor, lost souls need most is order. They need a structure which gives a meaning to the Holy Day which is posing the most unholy of agonies on them. And this is exactly what church can provide them with. Having to be at church at 10 a.m. means that you have to cut down your drinking and go to bed rather early. This may seem a rather cruel demand at first sight, yet it will provide those with satisfaction and happiness who accept it. Once you have established going to church as a weekly ritual you will notice that your Sundays become brighter and brighter every week; not only because you are now awake when the sun is shining, having a fixed appointment in the morning which gives some structure to your day, but also because the Sundays are growing richer in meaning. But why is that the case?
The sermons at church give you all you need to become a happy, satisfied and spiritually enlightened person. Although this might seem a very bold generalization it is not difficult to see that it is entirely true. Consider a good sermon. It must be an inspired and valuable interpretation of God’s Word, clear in its language, wise in its thoughts and deep in its meaning. Such a sermon will be a great enrichment to anybody’s own view on the world. It will help people to see this world they live in in the light of the Holy Bible and give them instructions on how to improve their lives. It is clear that this will give meaning to Sundays since they will be the days of spiritual enlightenment. And it will give meaning to life, too, because it helps living it the way it should be lived. It is now an interesting thing to observe that poor sermons can achieve very similar effects. Yet obscure, dense and shallow as such a sermon will be it achieves these effects not through its content but through the contrast it creates. If the weekly sermon constitutes the time of lowest inspiration, highest desperation and greatest frustration of the whole week it is sure to make the people attending it value everything else much more since it allows them to see everything in the light of its contrast to the sermon’s spiritual darkness. In this case spiritual enlightenment will come from everything but the sermon. Yet only the sermon makes this possible. People will become better, learning, for instance, to love their enemies who, evil and wicked as they may be, do at least not read sermons to them.
Apart from the structure the appointment in the morning gives to a Sunday, which improves people’s lives, and the usefulness of hearing the sermons, which improve people, the ceremony which is performed at church and the solemn atmosphere it creates will make the whole Sunday more pleasant to everyone. This is an effect very similar to the one of hearing a good and happy song after getting up. The song may influence its hearer for a large part of the day, thus making his whole attitude a bit more positive. Likewise the solemn atmosphere at church may very well influence the people who were exposed to it for the rest of the day, during their walk at noon, their tea-time in the afternoon and their hours of reading in the evening. This effect may even last longer than only for the rest of the day; it is very well possible that the positive attitude can be kept up for the rest of the week, so that a perfectly balanced and content human being will evolve. This is of course true for any denomination which performs its worships in a solemn way. But it should be mentioned that the best effects, at least as far as the Sunday is concerned, might be achieved in Catholic churches – because of the incense. Good incense contains slightly intoxicating substances which can turn the rainiest of Sundays into illuminated hours full of holy visions, thus once again supporting spiritual enlightenment.
This essay has argued that it would be a good idea for everyone to go to church every week since this might support people in their attempts to lead perfectly balanced and orderly lives full of spiritual enlightenment.