If I am allowed to start yet another sidetrack: do you have an explanation for the fact that the German Lutheran Church is losing (tax-paying) members even faster than the Catholics? This was always a mystery to me: IMHO the main reason for the dwindling of the Catholics in almost all Catholic-majority areas of Europe is the ugliness and viciousness of the clergy, while the German Lutheran clergy is quite the opposite. The only explanation I could come up with was that modern German Lutheranism makes ditching religion too easy by voiding all the compulsion (including the threat of social expulsion). That is, with only a little exaggeration: it became too tolerant to sustain itself.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}