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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liquide" data-source="post: 524336" data-attributes="member: 1407">On a note though, even though Sweden is considered a lutheran society the above is taken from an article that  is a few years old.Today we still celebrate Lucia of course, but Sweden is not as religous as one might think. The last couple of years around 50,000 to 100,000 persons have left the Swedish church each year. We do pay church tax if we are part of the Swedish church but this is not entirely the whole reason to why people leave, we just don't feel connected to a religion up here anymore.We were more or less forced into christianity when it came to us a few hundreds years back, first we resisted it and killed everyone that tried to convert us. Then they managed to convert one of kings and he instead started to kill everyone that didn't convert (OK we have an odd way of making people do as we want up here).We then converted to christianity up here (and later on we became lutheran since it suited us better), but we never really liked this new religion that existed and continued to celebrate our old customs and traditions togather with the christian traditions.Today we still celebrate old customs that is rooted in the old Norse mythos (even though christianity have tried to make them more christian), and we don't wanna let go of our roots.This has lead to that more and more people find christianity alien, and goes away from it to adapt a more atheistical viewpoint of life where man itself is in focus instead of a greater power.Today people believe (this is no fact but it seems like this when you ask around and it is the common viewpoint) that less then 10 percent of the Swedish population is religous in some way, and only about 5% of the population is christian. The rest of the population is more or less atheists or non-religous belivers.Sorry about the religous post but I thought I had to clarify a few things from the inital post, so please bear with me moderators and do NOT use this thread to start a discussion about religions please.</blockquote>

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