East German Atheism

[Gulo Blue]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/22/atheism-east-germany-godless-place

52% atheist, 25% religious. They even used to have a sort of atheist confirmation ceremony called Jugendweihe.

Maybe all y'all 'MURICA! haters should threaten to defect to Germany instead of Canada.

 

[tinselwolverine]

This all goes back to that heretic Luther.

 

[Michchamp]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/22/atheism-east-germany-godless-place

52% atheist, 25% religious. They even used to have a sort of atheist confirmation ceremony called Jugendweihe.

Maybe all y'all 'MURICA! haters should threaten to defect to Germany instead of Canada.

good idea. see you on the Dresden Sports Forum.

 

[byco42]

This all goes back to that heretic Luther.

And Nietzsche after that.

 

[Michchamp]

And Nietzsche after that.

I think Karl Marx had more to do with it.

 

[turok]

I wonder how many of those self-professed East German "atheists" still put up & decorate a Yule Tree for their little Hansels und Gretyls during the Christmas holidays? O Tannenbaum...O Tannenbaum...

 

[tinselwolverine]

The Yule tree is a pagan ritual. It observes the end of the declining daylight.

 

[Michchamp]

The Yule tree is a pagan ritual. It observes the end of the declining daylight.

what about the yule log?

 

[tinselwolverine]

what about the yule log?

Same. Just not a full on tree and it goes in a hearth.