RE: Atheism / Satanism
April 15, 2015 at 7:43 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2015 at 7:47 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(April 15, 2015 at 7:29 am)Alex K Wrote: I think it somewhat works like that in Germania. Here, everyone is so used to church = two established state-sanctioned institutions (EKD, roman catholic), that anything outside of this officially sanctioned system is automatically perceived as suspicious and possibly dangerous.
In Poland - when I was growing up, at least - if you were not (at least officially) Roman Catholic, you might as well have been a Satan-worshiping junkie pedophile from Mars... People there are not big on tolerance. The Pope being a Pole at the time had a lot to do with it.
In UK, it seems that having an established national church takes away all the romanticism from religion - hence the apathy. That might change soon, though, with the vocal - and growing - Muslim minority feeding xenophobia and making people want to defend their faith against "invaders".
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw