Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Denmark and Sweden/reply (14)

It's not really "that research is needed". I'm not sure how you even *can* research it.

I'm also personally bothered by your use of "religion", when you say "to find out if religion is harmful or not". Which religion? The Methodist Church down the block that holds formal "Tea servie" every tuesday at three? The New Age religions that are basically self-help be happy and buy tarot cards. The Mosque in canada that meets in the choir room of a local church which also doubles as the school house? Shinto religions that ask you to respect and "worship" nature? The 3 kids who call themselves "satanists" to piss off mom and dad?

Even "organized religion" varies far and wide from church to church. But you lump them all together and say "is religion good or bad".

As for France, simply because of their intellectual traditions, the community at large has little place of discussions of religion in schools, in government, or in any public section. To the point of saying "no teach may wear any symbol of a religion at any time during the day". compared to say Denmark's 19% self identified "non religion, non god" people, france has 31%. another roughly 40% that say something like "there might be, whatever, doesn't really impact me", and 30% who attend church or mosque.