Ich habe mir ein Video angesehen. Ich spreche kein Finnisch, aber es schien darum zu gehen, dass die Kirche gleichgeschlechtliche Paare akzeptiert. Die meisten Kommentare, die auf Finnisch verfasst waren, waren sehr verärgert. Wenn die Kommentare auf Englisch verfasst wären, hätte ich geglaubt, dass sie von Leuten aus Mississippi stammen.
Es war eigentlich ziemlich überraschend, das in Finnland zu sehen.
Edit: Einige Leute haben Interesse an dem Video bekundet. Bitte schön.
It seems that Finland is the most conservatively religious Nordic country. Is that right?
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Conservative christians are a super loud minority in YouTube.
Most Finns aren’t religious at all. But there are a few conservative groups, that are very vocal.
No
Mate, this is maybe the worst data point you could get for the general opinion of the public. Going to a video with a controversial topic, most of the popular comments are gonna be people who are in favour of the topic.
Pretty much all people in Finland, especially in cities, are accepting of same-sex couples. There’s only a couple whackjobs.
Comments on a single video are definitely something to base your entire opinion upon. Every video on the internet will have dumb morons crying about it, maybe link the video you watched so everyone else can see as well. For all we know it was made by a conservative christian source.
Probably still a beacon of hope in the Nordic countries, so yes.
Yes, Finland is pretty conservative, old-school religious and racist country. Just see what parties are in the government.
There are religious nut-jobs everywhere, and in Finland they are definitely a vocal minority. A majority of representatives in the highest decision-making body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland support gay marriage. However, support has not (yet) reached the required 75% to change the definition of marriage.
Also, it would good if you could include a link to the video so people can check it out for themselves, especially considering the subject-matter of this post is controversial.
Most „christians“ in Finland are what we call „tapakristitty“. They are not religious but are members of the church due to baptising as a baby and tradition. Atheism is on the rise, thank God (pun intended), but also the Tiktok-christianity among young men/teen boys is getting popular.
I’m not sure how conservatively religious other nordic countries are, but I wouldn’t characterize Finland as particularly so. There are vocal minorities (mostly similar to what exísts in other nordic nations) that do not define the majority, which is mostly secular and „habit christians“, attending the state church for christmas and easter. The vast majority support gay rights in all forms, for example.
Finland is a very secular society where religion does not have much of a role in everyday life.
Statistically true it seems, but it’s still something like 40% of Finland’s population does not believe in any kind of god/gods versus 34% that do. My guess is that religious people have the strongest feelings about such matters so are more likely to express their belief-rooted homophobia.
Sweden is a very religious country compared to Finland, we have so many muslims.
we are not conservatively religious people. if something, we are traditionalists with lutheran… well, everything really.
also, if the vocal dingbats define a country – the world would be relentlessly funny
Every country has it’s religious nuts and that sort of thing tends to get them foaming at mouth.
So yeah, that sort of commenting is to be expected.
Well, I dunno how it goes in other countries, but I feel that in Finland, at least Lutheran ministers have quite a strong „freedom of conscience“. If you participate in the Pride demonstration in Finland, it’s a big possibility there are some ministers participating in their clerical collars. In Protestantism, the belief of personal belief is a strong one. Religious „rainbow happenings“ are not a rarity in Finland, and we have LGBTQ people who themselves are believers. It should say something. [:
If someone is strongly „presenting“ their belief in public, many of us easily consider them a) a fake or b) a pharisee or c) both. Religiousness is very _very_ VERY personal matter here, and many believers have no real ties with any congregation. The system and social connections are totally different compared to, let’s say, the US. A local church isn’t a relevant personal safe net for most of us. People really participating are a minority of the minority. Church is more like a bureaucratic factor: you can get a little bit of money, you can meet some „official“ to talk with, your child may in daycare of local congregation, you go and stand in a line and get a plastic bag of food for help, but those measures are very similar than those your local town may deliver to its citizens.
Also, it’s sort of important to remember that the political party of „Christian“ people does not represent the opinion of the Finnish church. They are often much more.. well, pharisees and drooling maniacs, when our bishops, for instance, tend to be much more clear headed, trying to listen to minorities and so on.
People are very much paying their taxes to church by default, for funeral services, rites and so on. So the amount of people registered doesn’t tell much. Ofc, there’s differences between areas, there’s fundamental parts and areas filled with sectarians in Finland, too.
Personally, I’m more or less agnostic. Still registered, mostly for laziness and family reasons.