The Apostasy of the Syt

[Syt]

Congradulations Europe - you managed to replace    with

It's acually true for Vienna. Pre-war Jewish population was about what the Muslim %-age is now.

Also, Books & Bagles closed their shop here.

[Eddie Teach]

Euro barbarism. That's like 2.5 blu-rays, every month.

You could probably get 20 blu-rays in China.

[MadImmortalMan]

That's something expats in Germany discovery very quickly. Among the first questions asked when registering at the city hall. Sometimes, they're told to pretend they are not religious to avoid pretend it, despite baptism. Lately, German churches have been using baptism archives abroad so some people had some bad surprises.

The US has literally hundreds of denominations. Do they only track members of the main ones that exist in Germany or what?

[Syt]

That's something expats in Germany discovery very quickly. Among the first questions asked when registering at the city hall. Sometimes, they're told to pretend they are not religious to avoid pretend it, despite baptism. Lately, German churches have been using baptism archives abroad so some people had some bad surprises.

The US has literally hundreds of denominations. Do they only track members of the main ones that exist in Germany or what?

The two big groups in Germany are Lutherans and Roman-Catholics (almost 60%). They're collecting through the state revenue. There's a few more doing it that way (Unitarians, Jewish Congreations, e.g.). Peopl without religious affiliation are over 30%, so that's over 90% of the population covered.

Other groups (Jehova's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons, Muslims, etc.) don't charge directly.

In Bavaria/Baden-Württemberg, church tax (for those in churches that charge it) is 8% of the income tax, in other states 9%.

[Valmy]

How un-Biblical

It is supposed to be a tenth

[Duque de Bragança]

Euro barbarism. That's like 2.5 blu-rays, every month.

But not Criterions or their local equivalents. Relax.

[Duque de Bragança]

That's something expats in Germany discovery very quickly. Among the first questions asked when registering at the city hall. Sometimes, they're told to pretend they are not religious to avoid pretend it, despite baptism. Lately, German churches have been using baptism archives abroad so some people had some bad surprises.

The US has literally hundreds of denominations. Do they only track members of the main ones that exist in Germany or what?

In Hessen (Frankfurt am Main), they only asked if you were Catholic or Protestant, to give you a precise example.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

My church (meaning specific location/congregation) has so many people they've 1) greatly increased the barriers requirements to join, .

that seems oddly contradictory for a church... Imagine of Paul had done that back then. We'd all be Mithras-worshippers now.

[Zanza]

The US has literally hundreds of denominations. Do they only track members of the main ones that exist in Germany or what?

In Hessen (Frankfurt am Main), they only asked if you were Catholic or Protestant, to give you a precise example.

And Protestant means the Lutheran quasi state church, not all those other Protestant denominations.

[jimmy olsen]

You will always be a beloved child of God to me Syt

Same!