• xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 months ago

      Only recently did Sweden change rules that had every newborn be automatically registered with the Swedish church. The majority that are registered probably never practice, nor think about or visit a church, ever, in their lives, except maybe when they get married. If you exit the church, you loose the right to have your marriage and funeral in a church. Pretty sure the 37.9% is misleading in that regard.

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        7 months ago

        I bet. It is just a low end number. Also I am pretty confident I am still officially a member of my childhood church. Never told them to take me off the rolls.