The pastor with a slightly different view of God and the world: Rainer Maria Schießler reads from his "Bible"

"The Schießler Bible" is the name of the book that Pastor Rainer Maria Schießler wrote.

He recently presented it in the Wolfratshauser Stadtbücherei.

Wolfratshausen - “Full house today, isn't it?” Pastor Rainer Maria Schießler, who is used to speaking in front of thousands of people, looks around.

He is a guest at the Wolfratshauser Stadtbücherei to present his new book “The Schießler Bible” - in front of an audience of almost 30 people.

More is not allowed.

"Corona doesn't stop here either," muses the clergyman. And he is right in the middle of it all, telling what effects the virus has on every area of ​​life - and how you can still achieve your goal through a wealth of ideas. "A Christmas mass with 1000 visitors is not possible - but twelve church services with few visitors, that's okay." In addition, reaching into the bag of tricks helps: "Everything is streamed live. You don't even need to go to church and you can still be there. "

In the next hour Schießler does not leave out any topic. Same-sex marriage, adopting a disabled child, women serving the Church. “Why shouldn't people of different denominations be allowed to marry?” Asks Schießler. He tells of his Catholic aunt who fell in love with a Protestant man in the 1950s. "She was excommunicated immediately." And what about their children? Why should they be baptized as Catholic? "So the evangelical partner has to swallow the toad," says Schießler. Once he was asked by his parents before a baptism whether it would make any difference if the godparents were evangelicals. “Can you eat with a knife and fork? Yes? So, it fits. "

Schießler gesticulates, tells further incidents. You can tell that there isn't someone sitting here who just talks to himself. He appears authentic, lives what he represents. "It gets into my guts, it touches me." The message is clear: "Everyone is an original and everyone is worth something."

Oh, and then there was the book. Schießler makes it short. “I'll read you two chapters, you can read the rest yourself if you want.” The Schießler Bible can be read at any time, just as one can start at any point. The author interprets and explains various passages in the Bible. “You shouldn't forget that there are hardly any people who have studied theology in a church service,” he says. “So you have to break it down in such a way that the educated doesn't get bored and the simpler understands.” This is exactly what the Schießler Bible wants: to stimulate thought, leave room for your own interpretations, to understand God's word better.

Schiessler would take up the profession of pastor again at any time.

“Of course, the Bible was not written in a writing room.

Living experiences were brought together here. ”For him, giving and sharing is the most important thing.

And further development.

“The church is diversity in unity.

Everything and everyone has space here. "

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Rainer Maria Schießler was born on October 7, 1960 in Munich. He studied Catholic theology in Munich and Salzburg. In 1987 he was ordained a priest in Freising. Schießler is one of the most famous churchmen in Bavaria due to his unconventional pastoral care and media-effective campaigns. From 2006 to 2012 he worked every year in the Schottenhamel tent at the Oktoberfest as a waitress; he donated the money he had earned to charity. After a two-year break, he served again at the Oktoberfest in 2015 and donated his income to Christian Springer's Syria project. From 2011 to 2020, Schießler was responsible for the Holy Spirit community on Viktualienmarkt in addition to his previous parish of St. Maximilian. He also got his own talk show.The program "Pfarrer Schießler" was broadcast from December 2012 to 2015 on Bavarian Radio. Since 2020 the Munich church radio has been producing the podcast "Schießler's Week - Here the Pastor speaks" with him.