On the one hand it is useless to fight hate narratives with arguments. There is nothing more dangerous than blind idealists, because logic bounces off them and they are blind to all alternatives that do not fit their distorted picture of reality. The high emotional level that accompanies storytelling makes impossible a free discussion of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. These emotionally charged narratives of hate destroy the rational basis of debate that we have achieved from Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus of Rotterdam to Kant and Voltaire and in our democratic culture of dialogue. On the other hand, in today's media society we live a secularism without religion and a negative religious freedom that wants to banish religions from society as a superfluous private matter. We urgently need to return to the achievements of our societies, which are based on principles other than those on which they themselves can be based. In the sense of Böckenförde axiom, this means that the liberal, secular state lives on conditions which it cannot create itself. It must - also through its religious policy - provide social forces and individual citizens with the freedom necessary for the formation of a sustainable basic consensus: Human rights and dignity can never become a matter of majority decisions. They must be protected primarily by the state. Secular society must not become blind to those whose actions deny the fundamental values of our cultures.