(April 15, 2015 at 7:43 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(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.
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 Muslim minority feeding xenophobia and making people want to defend their faith against "invaders".
In Germany, the politics were fortunately messy enough to not have one single denomination dominate. It cost a lot of lives in the past, though...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
