Re: Ban coffee?

On 2025-03-30 10:55 p.m., Graham wrote:

On 2025-03-30 4:10 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-30 3:50 p.m., Graham wrote:

 

Stats show that the USA is increasingly secular but even if they
were in the minority, the religious would still dominate.

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Secular has more to do with the official relationship between the church and the state, or lack thereof. The church is still quite prominent in Scandinavia. Denmark has a Evangelical Lutheran Church is the state church.
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But how many attend?

 It seems that regular Sunday attendance is low but they are big on special vents. Christmas, Easter, baptism, christening, weddings and funerals are still church events. FWIW we took my father's ashes to be buried at a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery and we were amazed at the number of that church's parishioners showed up for the service.
 It is a curious thing about local churches around here. My wife goes to an Anglican church. The Anglican churches are struggling. A number of them have shut down, as have churches of other denominations. Curiously, most of their buildings have been snapped up by other churches. There is a major Dutch population around here and it seems like every time you turn around there is another Dutch church being build, and they are huge.