[monday]

"But you referenced "Bohemian lifestyle" which comes from French views of the gypies expelled from Bohemia. You can't use the term "Bohemian lifestyle" to explain why Czechs tend to be unreligious as compared to their northern neighbours."

lol.... I can't? I just did. You are hung up on Bohemian's being Gypsies. Perhaps that was true originally, but I am using a different interpretation. When someone refers to a Bohemian Poet or writer, I don't assume he is a Gypsy, I assume he is a hippie who's favorite writer is Karl Marx. You can reject my definition if you want. I don't care. I was just trying to be helpful.

The truth is I don't know why Czechs are more liberal than Poles, but they most definitely are. I think it may have something to do with historical trends. They were, I believe, a religiously tolerant society during the dark ages when most other European societies were extremely intolerant. Czechs seem to be rather proud of their liberal history.

[macel]

Well, there is a link. If you look up in a dictionary "bohema" means artistic community with liberal, eccentric life style opposing existing social etiquette. In Poland in XIXth century we called local bohemians "cyganeria" and "cygan" means gypsy (they were called like that despite there were no gypsies among them).

As for being liberal it's an old tradition in Czechy (remember Jan Hus), funny when you remember they became Chrstians prior to Poland.