Buffalox,

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.

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