People are increasingly moving into the digital world, work, conversation and images. The corporeality will be lost, believes Hamburg's bishop Fehrs. It reminds of the unity of body and soul at Easter.

The bishop of Hamburg Kirsten Fehrs has warned in her Easter message before a separation of mind and body through digitization. Technical development should not make interpersonal encounters superfluous. "Where it should be humane, the mind must not be disconnected from the body," said the bishop in the district of Hamburg and Lübeck. Jesus himself had healed, hugged and shown compassion. "We need a human feeling that can not produce a machine or an algorithm," Fehrs said.

The profound change in the world of work and communication goes hand in hand with an increasing lack of body. Muscle power is needed less and less, conversations and encounters are being transferred to virtual space. Although important is a carefully styled profile picture. "The true body, however, is increasingly considered an annoying reality, especially when he is needy and weak," criticized Fehrs.

To look at things in the light
Also the catholic hamburg archbishop Stefan Heße addressed erroneous developments in the digital world. He appealed not to fall for hate speech and fake news, but to strive to see things in the light. Easter broke the change of light and darkness, said Heße in his Easter message.

The Regional Bishop of the North Church, Gerhard Ulrich, emphasized the power of hope in the face of violence, hatred, war and terror. She could release the energy to express lamentation, anger and fear, Ulrich said in his Easter message. Only if the need is specified concretely, liberation and overcoming could show up. The Easter festival, on which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, means departure and getting up, said Ulrich. "Life is back in front of us." ( dpa ) / ( bme )