Germany is a secular country.
In the North, Lutheran & Protestant Christianity is dominant.
In the South, Catholicism is most common, though there is a strong Muslim community there.
The East is mainly non-religious.
There are also more and more Jews in Germany, though mainly in the East. When I was last there, the community was really building up.
In the North, Lutheran & Protestant Christianity is dominant.
In the South, Catholicism is most common, though there is a strong Muslim community there.
The East is mainly non-religious.
There are also more and more Jews in Germany, though mainly in the East. When I was last there, the community was really building up.
Dirk,
I guess my family must have been a bit of an anachronism since my mother came from Northwestern Germany (Oldenburg) and was raised Roman Catholic and my father came from Southwestern Germany (Neckerthal region) and was raised Lutheran.
I think one reason many people in Germany do not declare a religious affilitation has less to do with a lack of religious faith than with the Kirchensteuer. It just seems there is something inherently wrong with having to pay a tax in order to belong to a church. It also seems wrong to have to pay a fee to declare that you no longer belong to a church. It is just my personal opinion but I think belonging or not belonging to a church should be a matter of conscience not money.
I guess my family must have been a bit of an anachronism since my mother came from Northwestern Germany (Oldenburg) and was raised Roman Catholic and my father came from Southwestern Germany (Neckerthal region) and was raised Lutheran.
I think one reason many people in Germany do not declare a religious affilitation has less to do with a lack of religious faith than with the Kirchensteuer. It just seems there is something inherently wrong with having to pay a tax in order to belong to a church. It also seems wrong to have to pay a fee to declare that you no longer belong to a church. It is just my personal opinion but I think belonging or not belonging to a church should be a matter of conscience not money.
I know Oldenburg! One of my relatives, who died a while ago, lived in Bremen, and the train would go through Oldenburg.
My mother actually came from a little town named Steinbild which was right outside Oldenburg. She left when she was only a child. I have tried to research her family but have hit a dead end. I think it was because my grandfather probably changed his name. He was an army officer who killed a man in a fight over my grandmother and he fled Germany and jumped ship in New York. After living out west with the Indians for a few years he went back to Germany and got my grandmother and the kids.
I have had better success tracing my father's side of the family. I have traced it back to 1453. I used the church records for most of it. The family has lived in the same little area for about six hundred years. They all lived in Oberdielbach am Necker, Unterdielbach am Necker, and Eberbach am Necker.
I believe that in my country(Canada), all the religions exist here !
Especially in the city that i live in,Edmonton, Alberta.
Especially in the city that i live in,Edmonton, Alberta.
In Turkey,all 3 main sacred religion (Islam,Christianity and Judaism) exist here.Huge part of country is Muslim.There are also atheist people.
People in Turkey are totally free to choose any religion.
People in Turkey are totally free to choose any religion.
I'm American and the largest religions (in order) are Christianity, Judaism and Islam (with Islam about to take the #2 spot from what I've read). We also have Mormonism and Scientology originating here.
No official religion, we're a secular state despite what the Christians (or the more extreme ones at least) try to say.
No official religion, we're a secular state despite what the Christians (or the more extreme ones at least) try to say.
I'm American and 76.8% of America follows christianity, Mormon 1.7%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%. David is correct, there is no stated national religion and all are free to worship as they please, but I would hardly consider our country as secular. Also it should be noted that though the country has no official religion its creation was based heavily in christian morals.
We have a secular government and a religious society.
The framers by and large believed that religion vields virtue and that our experiment with democracy could not survice without that virtuous society.
The framers by and large believed that religion vields virtue and that our experiment with democracy could not survice without that virtuous society.
Well, I am a Christian.
I said we have a secular state and a religious society despite what non-Christians try to tell people Christians try to say.
You are misunderstanding the refrain you frequently hear. We are a Christian nation. That is true if you accept the very large percentage of self-identifying Christians form the majority identity of the nation.
The term "nation" is a cultural term. The term "state" is political. This is how the term "nation state" came about. They are not synonymous but complimentary (and by that I mean they dovetail together to describe a thing).
Deist, not Christian. And yes we're secular, the people maybe not (but by and large we are, so...) but the gov't is.
There were deists amongst the framers. Most were Christians. This is a common shovel load believed by the left.
Here's a list of framers http://www.usconstitution.net/constframedata.html
3 are reasonably believed to be deists. The other 50+ were not. 6% is a very low percentage when compared to 96%. And even more meaningless when you accept that Deist doesn't mean atheist. Its an emergent thread from scholasticism expanded during the enlightenment.
Again, we have a secular government (drafted by people of faith) for a religious society.
This doesn't even make sense. The Gov't has no religion, correct, but "by and large" we as a country are not secular. If the people are not secular, then by and large we are not secular.
Except that we are. That's my point. Most people claim to hold religious beliefs but most also claim to not give a care about what everyone else believes in and agree that religion and gov't shouldn't mix. Americans are also increasingly non-religious and even outright atheist.
The vast majority of Americans today complaining about religion being absent from gov't also happen to be religious extremists.
What numbers would those be?
I'd love to see what you base you're argument (which is contrary to known demographic changes taking place) on.
These are the numbers I speak of and the source is https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
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