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Something that might be worth looking into is tax supported churches in Norway. I’m not finding a whole lot but it sounds like religions in Norway are given official designations and people officially register with them.

It's like 95% Lutheran (I could be a few points off on that). And I think that, like Germany, a portion of the taxes goes straight to the Lutheran Church. Not sure if the small Catholic Church (only 20-50 thousand) gets any tax support or if Muzzies can direct their taxes to their mosques or not.

14 posted on 07/24/2011 5:20:45 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)

This is an interesting point.

According to Norwegian church law, Municipal Councils are obliged to finance a certain level of activity in the Church of Norway parishes. In 2006 the total grants from the Municipal Councils amounted to approximately NOK 1.9 billion.

In addition, the Parliament (Stortinget) granted more than NOK 1.2 billion to cover the salaries of the clergy as well as diocesan and central church administration. Currently - The future relationship between church and state is currently the subject of a broad discussion, involving both the church itself and the political parties. Any fundamental change in this relationship must be decided on by the Norwegian Parliament.