cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16414235
The Ugly History of Dual-Loyalty Charges Ilhan Omar recently deployed an accusation that’s been used against religious minorities for years.
Interesting article, showing how treating Muslims as non-loyal to a country is the same bullshit already done against Catholics, Jews and other religions in USA.
It’s kind of weird, we have 12 parties in “Folketinget” (Danish Parlament), and it only requires 2% of votes to get in. But our only religious party “Christian Democrats” has not managed to get in for decades.
Religion has very little power in politics here, despite (or maybe because?) the biggest church by far, is the government controlled “Peoples church”, that even has it’s own minister in the government!
The widespread religious fanaticism in USA seems insane here.
Somehow US is a hotbed for religious fanatism.
Maybe it has to do with their history, as they left England due to religous reasons, than you have a whole inheritance tree of people who are still on the same mindset of regious war.
Read about the “Bible belt”, which are states with most religious activism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt
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Denmark sounds like a secular paradise!
Yes that’s weird too, because we have an official state church which is protestant, and the King and Queen are required to be members by law. We also have an official minister for religion, (it used to be for the state church), so we aren’t 100% secular, but Denmark is now among the least religious countries in the world. But despite that 71% remain members of folkekirken “people’s church”, but not for religious reasons, more for weddings and funerals, baptism also remains tradition, maybe because the church is responsible for registering names any way.
So it’s a weird mix of keeping religious traditions but without religious beliefs. I’ll go so far as stating that most consider it almost secular ceremonies, and outside special holidays, most churches are almost empty. The whole system is only held up by taxpayer money.
For instance we had the political debate about abortion rights in the 70’s, and there is no way that can be reversed now, there’s such a huge majority for abortion rights that even the Christian Democrats stopped opposing it a few years ago.
There is not a single anti abortion party in Denmark anymore. It’s absolutely insane for us to see how that basic right has been stripped away in some states in USA. As a matter of fact the limit for abortion was recently increased from 12 to 18 weeks.
In other words, your use of the church is aimed towards community-oriented or community-building activities instead of proselytizing. I can get behind that.
My mom likes to go to church because she’s a hard-core catholic, for which I roll my eyes. But then she has met people in it who genuinely care for her, and that’s the community part I can support.
The rest of it, the fear mongering, the anti- this or anti- that, can go straight to hell.