http://www.toonaripost.com/2012/10/world-news/lbgt-rights-in-germany/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lbgt-rights-in-germany Grassroots Journalists, Bloggers and Experts capture and report news from around the world. Become a citizen journalist with Toonari Post today! Thu, 23 May 2013 01:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.toonaripost.com/2012/10/world-news/lbgt-rights-in-germany/#comment-13491 Bored Stiff Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:31:44 +0000 http://www.toonaripost.com/?p=83868#comment-13491 “Germany is predominantly Christian, around 2/3 of the population identifying as such” – not so. Germans are legally obligated to make a choice and declare themselves either protestant, catholic, ‘other’ or ‘confession-less’ for tax reasons, as the state collects taxes from all for redistribution for churches (which often leads to cat-calls about just how separate church and state really can be with such a cozy arrangement). The statistic you have quoted is gleaned from the tax authorities, not from actual figures of church attendance, which have been falling precipitously for decades all across the land. In actual fact, a majority of Germans is completely ‘non-practising,’ agnostic or atheist. Those who are practising should never be compared to ‘Christians’ in the U.S. with all its negative characteristics. Germans are rational, thinking people as opposed to most so-called ‘Christians’ in the U.S:

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