No but it was a general question to people who don't believe or do believe. You dont have to be catholic to participate, hell i am a agnostic and I do it for my family.
Woah, woah there. Where did I state my religion? I simply questioned how an individual can escape the clutches of the Church. I envy you. But really, what I was saying is that it is fairly common knowledge. I guess Norway doesn't have any Catholics.
Because I made the thread and asked the question in the first place, i thought it was a general question, I apologize.
alright sorry if i sound a little hostile but its 5 in the morning over here. norway isnt a very religious country, only about 2% of the population attend church on a weekly basis. only 20% of Norwegians say that religion occupies an important place in their life. there is 229,500 Catholics in norway of wich 70% are born abroad.
the norse countries weren't very catholic to begin with. They basically converted on a bet. If one faith protected a person from burning, then they would convert. They lost.
I really had no what the hell it was either. Then again, I live in the Netherlands. Not only is religion almost rare here, I think the main branch of Christianity that's being practised here is Protestantism. But from the description you gave it seems like a looser form of the Muslim Ramadan.
Well, even in the CK games, you'll notice there's still a lot of paganism in Northern Europe. While the king might've been Christian, I think overall there still was quite a large amount of pagans living there.
Yeah I didn't take a big look at the religion stats for Scandanavia and most of the Dukes and Counts are Pagans.
I find it funny that in diffrent parts of the US, we have diffrent names of the same thing, we call it Soda in New York.
I gave up stone age beliefs for lent. Lets face it, lifes to short to give up its few pleasures for some non sense superstitition.
Well in the US diffrent parts of the country have diffrent terms for it, for example in New York we call it soda and in Ohio they call it pop.
Interesting, I've vacationed in the states several times and i have a cousin who plays professional hockey in Ohio, and I've never heard the term pop used before. My family always got funny looks from the locals when we said the word pop in Florida restaurants.
Maybe downstate you do but out west everybody says pop. Which pisses me off because I say soda, out of choice because I don't like the way 'pop' sounds. But usually in places were people say pop there's a large minority of people who say soda. It's a debate that has raged since the beginning of soda itself. Also down in Dixie everybody says coke. Like they'll call any kind of soda "coke". If you ask for a coke they'll ask "what kind?". Weird as shit.