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Sep 13 @ 9:38 AM Chrisitanity In European Countries     Blondino Posts: 4,265 There are 49 countries in Europe with very different histories , so there is no one answer fits all .... I used the heading of Europe but it needs to be broken down further .. Italy and Sweden for example are extremes of religious and non religious These countries vary from those with the highest living standards in the world .. to some of the poorest ... It would be interesting to see input from people who know from first hand experience ( not just quotes from sites who have their own agendas . ) From being on this site I can see religion is very different in USA and in UK .. this is a fact. It seems that the definition varies from country to country and habits vary greatly. Thought it may be of interest to have a thread to post some things that most people on here may not have come across in person. No attacks please ... just infomative posts American Christians mistakenly believe that Europe has the same perception of the Church and Christian faith as in the United States,In America we assume that they have the same church that we have but our church experience is vastly different than that of Europe,” emphasized Bennett. “They didn’t come to believe in Christ and then start coming to church like we do.” http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070408/u-s-christians-ignorant-of-europe-s-spiritual-state-says-mission-group-spokesman.htm   Sep 13 @ 9:48 AM Chrisitanity In European Countries     yashaenka Posts: 4,489 I know better as do you that the model of Religion aka Christianity practiced in this country is not reflected back on the European continent. If anything within the last decade Europe has become more secular and people are leaving the Churches in droves as in Europe they have had more first hand experiences with the false promises of the church. In France marriage has become an epidemic because people have turned their backs on the institution of marriage. They just live together and the children take their mothers name. Holy smokes Batman. This is happening elsewhere on the European continent as people no longer embrace old fables and myths. Maybe they are more literate then us here in the Americas. As Europe goes in time so will America, why not we have been following the European trends every since [and before] this country was founded.   Sep 13 @ 9:59 AM Chrisitanity In European Countries     Blondino Posts: 4,265 Sweden ( highest standard of living in the world ) We did have an occasional poster on here from Sweden .. would be good to hear from him Late last year, a Swedish hotel guest named Stefan Jansson grew upset when he found a Bible in his room. He fired off an email to the hotel chain, saying the presence of the Christian scriptures was "boring and stupefying." This spring, the Scandic chain, Scandinavia's biggest, ordered the New Testaments removed. In a country where barely 3% of the population goes to church each week, the affair seemed just another step in Christian Europe's long march toward secularism. Then something odd happened: A national furor erupted. A conservative bishop announced a boycott. A leftist radical who became a devout Christian and talk-show host denounced the biblical purge in newspaper columns and on television. A young evangelical Christian organized an electronic letter-writing campaign, asking Scandic: Why are you removing Bibles but not pay-porn on your TVs?   Sep 13 @ 10:02 AM Chrisitanity In European Countries     yashaenka Posts: 4,489 Because pay porn is a real time event and not based on fables. A hotel serves it's master, the client so they give them what the really want.   Sep 13 @ 12:10 PM Chrisitanity In European Countries     SunBabe Posts: 12,243 Blondino, I can assure you that Christianity (and even the importance of "formal religion") is different from region to region in the U.S., despite what it appears to be over the internet. I've lived and travelled all over the country and had never been aware of these extremist "Uber-Christians" until the last few years. It seems, though, that the movement is growing, not always in a positive way. I believe it started becoming more popular (and influential) with the Bush administration and the politicization by strong evangelical religious leaders. Italy and Sweden for example are extremes of religious and non religious I seem to feel that this U.S. is a little less extreme on the non-religious end of the scale, but it could be that a lot of people are just too afraid of what their friends and neighbors would think if they declared themselves to be athiests or agnostics. I see a whole lit more declaring themselves "spiritual", though...like me. -- Those that live by Christian principles, but don't necessairily embrace the full traditional tenets or dogma. When my daughter lived in Denmark, she was quite surprised that everyone (just about) was Lutheren. Then she found out the Church is basically supported/subsidized(?) by the government. LOL, even as an exchange student, she was able to receive pocket money for singing in the church choir every week! Not a bad idea, apparently...she never met a single mean or nasty person in Denmark her entire year there. (...though plenty of her friends and even parents admitted to not being actual "believers" )   Sep 13 @ 12:16 PM Chrisitanity In European Countries     16knots Posts: 3,627 I have never thought Reliogion was a problem in England. It was never an issue. Outlying regions of Scotland religion is a problem with Free Church. Northern ireland used religions as a source of politics. But my personal experience is that England has taken a very rational view towards religions. Never been a problem in school or military and social forces. Minority populant religions have tried to upset the British status quo but thus far failed. England isnt so tolerant of social change within the establishment.   Sep 13 @ 12:29 PM Chrisitanity In European Countries     Blondino Posts: 4,265 However, Europeans overall were significantly less religious than Americans and the rest of the world. The most religious nations in Europe were Italy and Poland – overwhelmingly Catholic countries – with about 87 percent of their citizens claiming to be religious. Meanwhile, Germany, Austria and Switzerland had an average 70 percent religious population and about 20 percent highly religious population. Interestingly, in Germany, nominalism is high with one in six church members describing themselves as non-religious. One in three citizens with no religious affiliation consider themselves religious. The least religious country in Europe is Russia with 50 percent saying they are religious and only seven percent, highly religious. Besides Russia, the study found that Thailand and France were other nations with the smallest percentage of people who said religious belief was important in their lives.   Sep 13 @ 12:34 PM Chrisitanity In European Countries     yashaenka Posts: 4,489 What do you have on the Continent of Africa in terms of religions by %. Some have said Islam is growing there more rapidly than anywhere else? In Russia the people were condition to avoid Religion as there was not a place for it within the last form of government.

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