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    EUROPÄISCHE LÄNDER MIT STAATLICHER RELIGION

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    3. Aegeansunset12 on

      All of the big ones recognise same sex marriage….turns out religion wasn’t the problem in Europe compared to other places….

    5. Difficult_Trust1752 on

      Iceland sorta kinda has a state religion. Officially it’s the lutheran Church of Iceland, but taxes are divied up by membership. Those reporting no affiliation have their taxes go to the University of Iceland.

      Hopefully if Im wrong an Icelander will come along and correct me.

    6. T0NY97 on

      Edit: my original take was too unnuanced but I’m leaving this comment up cus the discussion under it is fascinating.

      If England counts as a state religion, then the Netherlands should too as the King is considered a figure head of the Protestant Church of the Netherlands (which is an umbrella organization covering many denominations). England legally doesn’t really even exist as a state anymore anyway (that’s the UK), so I don’t really see how it can have a state religion. (I understand the King is the head of the CoE and according to tradition the King gets his power from God which makes the UK technically a theocracy, but there’s no King of England, only a King of the UK).

    7. RandomPolishCatholic on

      I am pretty sure Catholicism is said to be the official religion in the Polish constitution.

    10. Usagi-Zakura on

      Norway used to have one until a few years ago… and I remember there being some controversy when it ended, though most Norwegians didn’t really seem to care, some priests were even happy about it… but I recall hearing some American baptist loosing their minds over it claiming Norway had turned to satatanism or whatever… and I was just thinking „ya’ll never had a state religion… *its written into your constitution that you don’t have one.*“

    13. -ATF- on

      Doesn’t France have something weird where parts of Alsace Moseille have state sponsored religions?

    14. PeasantLich on

      Finland kinda has state church(es). The Finnish Evangelic Lutheran Church and the Finnish Orthodox Church get special privileges like right to directly tax their members, but they also got special legal responsibilities as part of state bureaucracy.

    18. Drobex on

      Italy basically has a State religion. The constitution says otherwise, but the Lateran Pacts that regulate the relationship between Italy and the Vatican impose teachers of Catholic Religion appointed by the local bishops in public schools, crucifixes in a lot of public buildings (classrooms included).

    19. Friendly-Olive-3465 on

      Kinda ironically amusing for Denmark considering the only way to get charged with anything close to blasphemy is to burn a Quran.

    21. Gandalfthebran on

      Only Hinduism has the 100% record of being secular. India and Nepal. How about that.

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