Posted on 12/25/2016 9:28:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
For the first time in history there are an equal number of religious and non-religious people in the Netherlands, according to a report by Statistics Netherlands. Last year, 50 percent of the 18-years and older population were atheists, and 50 percent followed some form of religion, NOS reports.
The largest group of believers are Roman Catholics, with 24 percent of the population. Protestants follow with 15 percent. Around 5 percent of the Dutch population are Muslim and 6 percent adhere to other faiths like Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism. …
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The pilgrims departed from Holland perhaps there is more to that than we know.
My favorite author, Peter Kreeft, grew up in the Dutch Reformed tradition. So too John Bergsma, conservative Catholic bible scholar.
It’s one thing to be totally disconnected to a religion and something totally different to deny the existence of the Creator. Denial is the root of it.
Suicide is filling the void. Very popular in the once-great Netherlands.
There is hope, if Geert Wilders can win there.
Hard to believe this is the same country that gave us Corrie Ten Boom.
Excellent point. Something always fills the void.
A godless nation is a doomed nation.
Something is going to fill that void, and they ain’t gonna like it.
A Romeo Void?
Brother Andrew, who smuggled all those Bibles behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s and 1960s, as well.
I like to remember that during the German occupation the Germans managed to raise a volunteer army of 5000 Dutch men to go fight on the Eastern Front.
Geert is a flame in their darkness, for sure. Will enough others catch fire, in time?
There was also the NSB (national socialist bond) in Holland that was very pro-Nazi.
I suspect that many of these non-believers will cry out to the Lord when the Muslims come to kill them.
Yes, and the bearded savages are rushing in with their perverted version of religion. Start praying!
“I work with Dutch guys sometimes. Bunch of arrogant know-it-alls, mostly.”
More so than Germans? Wow.
Europe is a done deal. I no longer have admire to visit the homelands of my great parents. I highly doubt that they would recognize Europ any longer.
I hope so! He is a hero who isn’t afraid to speak the truth, no matter who he offends.
They’re all largely arrogant toward Americans. And most EU countries’ folks are pissy toward the other countries. They’re all proud of their own country, and the forced multiculturalism doesn’t work. Stupid proggies.
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