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Europe
“”What has made the European family of nations an improving, instead of a stationary portion of mankind? Not any superior excellence in them, which, when it exists, exists as the effect, not as the cause; but their remarkable diversity of character and culture. Individuals, classes, nations, have been extremely unlike one another: they have struck out a great variety of paths, each leading to something valuable; and although at every period those who travelled in different paths have been intolerant of one another, and each would have thought it an excellent thing if all the rest could have been compelled to travel his road, their attempts to thwart each other's development have rarely had any permanent success, and each has in time endured to receive the good which the others have offered. Europe is, in my judgment, wholly indebted to this plurality of paths for its progressive and many-sided development.
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| —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), Chapter III. Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-Being, p.136 |
Europe is a Swedish glam metal band continent (in a political/cultural sense) at the western end of the Eurasian landmass, usually defined as being west of the Ural mountain range and north of the Caucasus. Many European countries, but not all, are members of the European Union and NATO.
It's an understanding between Europeans that you need to go blow each other up every few decades. Then you remember why that was a bad idea and repeat it again in a few decades. If you're American, you need only sit it out until everyone else is exhausted. Then you sweep the leg and become a world superpower.
Pretty much no some most All countries in Europe are Commu-Nazi-leebral godless hellholes! Let us learn nothing from them.
Countries[edit]
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Countries of Europe include:
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Religion in Europe[edit]
Eurobarometer Poll 2005[edit]
Participants were asked if they believed that "there is a God", if they believed that "there is some sort of spirit of life force", or if they "didn't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force".[1]
| Country | "I believe there is a God" |
"I believe there is some sort of spirit or life force" |
"I don’t believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force" |
|---|---|---|---|
 Malta |
95% | 3% | 1% |
 Cyprus |
90% | 7% | 2% |
 Greece |
81% | 16% | 3% |
 Portugal |
81% | 12% | 6% |
 Poland |
80% | 15% | 1% |
 Italy |
74% | 16% | 6% |
 Ireland |
73% | 22% | 4% |
 Slovakia |
61% | 26% | 11% |
 Spain |
59% | 21% | 18% |
 Austria |
54% | 34% | 8% |
 Lithuania |
49% | 36% | 12% |
 Germany |
47% | 25% | 25% |
 Luxembourg |
44% | 28% | 22% |
 Hungary |
44% | 31% | 19% |
 Belgium |
43% | 29% | 27% |
 Finland |
41% | 41% | 16% |
 United Kingdom |
38% | 40% | 20% |
 Latvia |
37% | 49% | 10% |
 Slovenia |
37% | 46% | 16% |
 France |
34% | 27% | 33% |
 Netherlands |
34% | 37% | 27% |
 Denmark |
31% | 49% | 19% |
 Sweden |
23% | 53% | 23% |
 Czechia |
19% | 50% | 30% |
 Estonia |
16% | 54% | 26% |
 EU25 |
52% | 27% | 18% |
 Romania |
90% | 8% | 1% |
 Bulgaria |
40% | 40% | 13% |
 Croatia |
67% | 25% | 7% |
 Switzerland |
48% | 39% | 9% |
 Iceland |
38% | 48% | 11% |
 Norway |
32% | 47% | 17% |
 Turkey |
95% | 2% | 1% |
Special Eurobarometer 2019[edit]
Participants were asked if they considered themselves "Catholic", "Orthodox Christian", "Protestant", "other Christian", "Jewish", "Shia Muslim", "Sunni Muslim", "other Muslim", "Sikh", "Buddhist", "Hindu", "Atheist", "Non believer or agnostic" and "other". For conciseness, only "Atheist" and "Non believer or agnostic" will be represented in the table, "Remainder" being the subtraction of 100% from the aforementioned.[2]
| Country | "Atheist" | "Non believer or agnostic" |
Remainder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania |
1% | 0% | 99% |
| Cyprus |
1% | 1% | 98% |
| Greece |
2% | 1% | 97% |
| Malta |
1% | 3% | 96% |
| Bulgaria |
3% | 2% | 95% |
| Poland |
3% | 3% | 94% |
| Ireland |
3% | 6% | 91% |
| Lithuania |
3% | 6% | 91% |
| Slovakia |
6% | 5% | 89% |
| Croatia |
6% | 5% | 89% |
| Portugal |
4% | 8% | 88% |
| Italy |
5% | 9% | 86% |
| Austria |
4% | 12% | 84% |
| Slovenia |
14% | 4% | 82% |
| Latvia |
6% | 13% | 81% |
| Hungary |
3% | 17% | 80% |
| Denmark |
9% | 13% | 78% |
| Finland |
10% | 14% | 76% |
| Luxembourg |
10% | 16% | 74% |
| EU28 |
10% | 17% | 73% |
| Germany |
9% | 21% | 70% |
| Belgium |
10% | 21% | 69% |
| Spain |
12% | 20% | 68% |
| United Kingdom |
9% | 28% | 63% |
| Estonia |
15% | 23% | 62% |
| France |
21% | 19% | 60% |
| Sweden |
16% | 34% | 50% |
| Netherlands |
11% | 41% | 48% |
| Czechia |
22% | 34% | 44% |
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Perhaps perceived as part of the Middle East and not Europe, it is culturally and historically similar to Greece and is a member of the European Union.
- ↑ Most of its modern territory is in the Middle East, but eastern Thrace with its capital Istanbul (historically known as Constantinople) is considered geographically and historically European.
- ↑ A small portion of which is technically in Europe, depending on who you ask.