An altar boy who served in a Bavarian church for nine years was slammed as a “Nazi” by the parish priest and dismissed from his position after the boy took a photo with Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Maximilian Krah.
The family says they are shocked by the conduct of the Bavarian priest.
The church, in the Regen district, is now under fire for its conduct in the case. The parents have even written an open letter that their boy was very interested in politics and had attended various campaign events during the election campaign. At an AfD event, he took a photo with Krah and posted it on his WhatsApp channel.
This reportedly infuriated the priest who called the boy into a meeting, where he allegedly called him a “Nazi”
“If you think like a Nazi, talk like a Nazi, and act like a Nazi, are you not a Nazi?” the priest allegedly said. He added that as a Christian, the boy cannot support the AfD’s positions.
The AfD’s Krah has already responded to the incident, writing on X; “The German church tax church has long been post-Christian, often anti-Christian. The boy is now learning this the hard way. I hope his faith will become even stronger as a result. I will try to contact him.”
The priest then dismissed the youth from his service, despite the boy’s nearly decade of service and his very religious nature. He had even considered becoming a priest himself.
“Since the end of January, our son’s world and that of our family have been thrown into disarray,” the Passauer Neue Presse wrote, the paper which broke the story, while quoting the family in a letter they wrote.
The Diocese of Passau has confirmed the incident. The diocese declared that the Church of Passau stands for “a liberal, democratic basic order.” However, the diocese still wants to “remain in dialogue with people who sympathize with problematic political positions.”
According to the diocese, the boy has been “offered several times to return to the circle of altar boys.” However, according to the diocese, the family has not yet accepted this offer.
Both the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany have gone to war with the AfD, and have even removed priests who sympathized with the party. These churches have been shedding members by the hundreds of thousands every year, as Germans grow more and more disenchanted with Christianity in the country.
