Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Today I did what I was planning on for a couple of years now.
I finally went through with my secession from the roman-catholic church.
All I had to do was cough up 15 EUR at the registry office to get the official paperwork done.

Being agnostic and having a strong dislike of the church as an institution it was time to leave before they can start leeching on my income.
Yes, here in Germany the church (for roman-catholics and protestants) takes 8 to 9% of your income.
Conveniently deducted right off your paycheck.

Hell no!

Coincidently I found the approval mail from CCC in my inbox on the same day!
Not that it’s much of a substitution, but the best improvement possible at the time :D

In contrary to GI and BITKOM, CCC does something and gets noted for it.
Looks like they are the only IT “lobby” (yuck, I hate that word) that’s really making a difference.

Definitely 100000x better to support them rather than spending money on any church out there.

Hanno writes on his blog about the recent shock-and-awe approach of Germany’s equivalent to the FBI, the BKA , to push ridiculous new empowerments.

The BKA invited members of the Innenausschuss (German Wikipedia entry) a permanent committee of the German government commissioned to handle everything related to politics of the interior. Their fields of work include (besides others):