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For First Time in History, Atheism Overtakes Religious Faith in Norway
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Posted on 01/16/2018 9:46:30 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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"Youd never know it today, but Norway was once a remarkably religious country. The Danish-Norwegian Nobel laureate, Sigrid Undset, won a Nobel prize for literature in 1928 for her extraordinary trilogy of historical novels, titled Kristin Lavransdatter. According to the Nobel committee, the award was conferred on her principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages and what strikes modern readers most is the pervasive religious component in the day-to-day life of pre-Reformation Scandinavia."
To: GoldenState_Rose
Theyve gone from Christian to atheist. Another generation or two and theyll go sharia law Islamic, like it or not.
To: GoldenState_Rose
Amazing Scandinavia once produced Søren Kierkegaard.
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:51:48 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: GoldenState_Rose
Is this movement in all formerly Christian countries the “Great Falling Away” prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, a sign of the end times before Jesus returns to judge the earth? We should be preparing by being in the Word daily.
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:53:41 AM PST
by
txrefugee
To: pepsi_junkie
Nature abhors a vacuum. There is no age without religion anywhere in history.
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:53:42 AM PST
by
freedomjusticeruleoflaw
(Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth)
To: GoldenState_Rose
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:54:13 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: pepsi_junkie
The raping and pillaging of the Vikings was done away with after they converted to Christianity. Soon to be revived by the muslims.
Although in Oslo at 29% that is still a fair number. I’ve read where just 5 or 10% of Christians (or something like that) makes a huge difference on the culture.
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:55:48 AM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: 21twelve
The raping and pillaging of the Vikings was done away with after they converted to ChristianityWe'll see what they do to the Eagles this weekend.
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:56:52 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
01/16/2018 9:59:21 AM PST
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21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: GoldenState_Rose
Norway is not a $h1thole nation; it is an @$$hole nation.
To: 21twelve
That is 29% believe in God—5-10% of a culture being fervent is one thing, but I doubt that one can scrape 3% out of the 29%.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:05:48 AM PST
by
Hieronymus
(It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
To: GoldenState_Rose
“Youd never know it today, but Norway was once a remarkably religious country. The Danish-Norwegian Nobel laureate, Sigrid Undset, won a Nobel prize for literature in 1928 for her extraordinary trilogy of historical novels, titled Kristin Lavransdatter. According to the Nobel committee, the award was conferred on her principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages and what strikes modern readers most is the pervasive religious component in the day-to-day life of pre-Reformation Scandinavia.”
Undset also became Catholic, which may point to the Lutheranism even of her day as being a less than satisfactory outgrowth of the age of which she wrote.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:07:21 AM PST
by
Hieronymus
(It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
To: pepsi_junkie
Yep. You can’t beat something with NOTHING.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:09:16 AM PST
by
ZULU
(DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
To: GoldenState_Rose
Since Norway is a welfare state it only makes sense that the people believe in the State and not themselves and God above.
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01/16/2018 10:14:47 AM PST
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Harpotoo
To: GoldenState_Rose
That the state has no official religion is fine and as it should be. The rest of it - what the society thinks about religion itself, is a different matter.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:35:59 AM PST
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Wuli
To: Wuli
When there is a void, something is going to fill it.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:38:10 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: GoldenState_Rose
If
socially just government has effectively taken the place of God then they have merely changed religions, not give it up.
Next move: Allah akhbar.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:46:40 AM PST
by
Salman
(I don't do Facebook, and neither should you.)
To: GoldenState_Rose
I think a better term for them is “Secular Humanist”. Government is their god.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:49:29 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Salman
They are Secular Humanists.
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posted on
01/16/2018 10:50:17 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Harpotoo
Since Norway is a welfare state it only makes sense that the people believe in the State and not themselves and God above.Norway's social spending as a percent of GDP is only sightly higher than ours.
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