Nutz
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Thank you for the link...but I would argue there is certainly a difference between those who claim religion (faith) and those who actually practice it.Do you have a link to that. My understanding is that there are very few people of faith in Germany.Yeah, because you enjoyed watching the East Germans suffer.
Also, over 60% of the population are Christians, another reason you hate their guts.
Religion in Germany
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Christianity is the largest religion in Germany with roughly 50 million adherents or 62% of the total population,[1][2] The second largest religion is Islam with 4 million adherents, making up 5% of the country's total population[1] followed by Buddhism and Judaism. During the last few decades, the two largest churches in Germany, namely the Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany and the Roman Catholic Church, have lost significant number of adherents. Both accounted for about 30% of the population in 2011.[2][3] More than 30% of the population is not affiliated with any church or other religious body.[1][4] Due to losses of both the Protestant churches and the Catholic Church in Hamburg, this state has also joined the group of states with a non-religious majority.[5][not in citation given]
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Religion in Germany
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Religion: Societal & Legal Status
As one may expect from a country with 1300 years of Christian tradition, Christianity is still the predominant religion in Germany. Although the number of practicing Christians is on the decline, the Christian religion in Germany is present in the countrys cultural heritage.
Religion in Germany Christianity
About 65% to 70% of the population are followers of the Christian religion in Germany. They are more or less evenly split between the mainstream denominations of Lutheran-Protestantism and Calvinism united in the EKD (Evangelical Church in Germany) and the Roman Catholic Church. Due to the historical development of religion in Germany, these denominations are concentrated in specific regions.
Religion in Germany | InterNations.org
Germany's 'Cold Religion' | Christianity Today
How is church life in Germany different than it is in the United States?
The Protestant state church is fairly dead. The percent of committed Christians in Germany is maybe at 3 or 4 percent. Eighty percent belong to a church nominally, Protestant or Catholic. A mere 0.5 percent belong to a free evangelical church. The percent of people believing in life after death is fewer than 50 percent. It's what a German philosopher, Ruediger Safranski, calls "cold religion," very left-brained, very cognitive, focused on rituals and membership but not on personal commitment. Sometimes the mainline bishops say we need to be more mission minded. But they don't put any money into it.
My church has missions to Germany...it is pretty much a Godless nation.