Switzerland's non-religious population becomes largest group for first time
Switzerland's population with no religious affiliation overtook the Catholic community for the first time in 2022, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) announced Friday.
The FSO said the proportion of the population with no religious affiliation has increased to 34% in the last 50 years, while Catholics and Protestant-Reformed has steadily decreased to 32%.
As recently as 1970, only 1% of the population had no religious affiliation. That proportion rose to 11% by the turn of the millennium to 34%.
Only 16% of those aged 75 and older have no religious affiliation, according to the FSO. Those in the 25 - 34 age group comprised the highest proportion of people with no religious affiliation at 42%.
Overall, more men do not belong to any religion than women. According to the Federal Statistical Office of the Swiss Confederation, BfS, the main reason for abandoning religious affiliation was that they had lost or never had faith.
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Switzerland's population with no religious affiliation overtook the Catholic community for the first time in 2022, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) announced Friday.
The FSO said the proportion of the population with no religious affiliation has increased to 34% in the last 50 years, while Catholics and Protestant-Reformed has steadily decreased to 32%.
As recently as 1970, only 1% of the population had no religious affiliation. That proportion rose to 11% by the turn of the millennium to 34%.
Only 16% of those aged 75 and older have no religious affiliation, according to the FSO. Those in the 25 - 34 age group comprised the highest proportion of people with no religious affiliation at 42%.
Overall, more men do not belong to any religion than women. According to the Federal Statistical Office of the Swiss Confederation, BfS, the main reason for abandoning religious affiliation was that they had lost or never had faith.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
