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...even in Norway, the world's most secular country, fully 50 percent believe in God.

You forgot about the Czech Republic, Sweden and Russia. (There is East Germany too.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 07:46:06 AM EST
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Norway and Sweden have state churches.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 07:46:50 AM EST
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So does Russia in a way, they have an autocephalous Russian Orthodox church.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 07:48:02 AM EST
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Ditch Russia. I was using 1998 data, but found that a 2005 poll showed increase (?) of theism to 58%.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 07:56:12 AM EST
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A recent international survey pegged Norway as the most secular in the world. I'm not going to dive for the source, but it can be googled.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 08:07:18 AM EST
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Methinks you saw headlines about this. However, note that Japan is even more secular (first in five out of six measures), Norway is not so well on the creationism front, and no formerly communist countries were included. (About two thirds of the Czech profess to be atheists/don't believe in a god in several polls, the figure in East Germany is above three-quarters.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 11:58:57 AM EST
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