(March 11, 2016 at 3:08 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: The argument on our side was that Denmark is a secular society, despite the existence of an official state church as a relic of its theocratic past.
He's (as usual) bending facts to the shape of his prejudices.
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No, it was made pretty clear we were talking about the government of Denmark.
I think you can also make a case for the society not being all that secular when 84 percent of the population support the church with taxes.
http://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledg...s-mediator
Quote:Although there is freedom of religion, there is no equality of religion, as the state sponsors only one church – the Evangelical Lutheran Church called Folkekirken, the “People’s Church.” It receives some twelve percent of its income from the state, but its largest source of income is the church taxes paid by its members. Most Danes – 84.7 % in 2001 – are members of the church, yet very few of them actively participate in it.