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Ok, cool, I was not aware of this. I thought they were all sadly just waiting to become obsolete. In what area are you in?
by fsloth 7y ago
Ok, cool, I was not aware of this. I thought they were all sadly just waiting to become obsolete. In what area are you in?
- luckylion 7y agoI'm in Northern Germany. The planned/willful obsolescence here mostly applies to the "official" churches imho. The smaller, free ones tend to be a bit more radical and more grass-roots oriented, so they're more hands-on (which probably also has to do with them not having a lot of old wealth and close ties to the state).
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoThe churches that are full of people who attend church because their parents did are, as you so well put it, sadly waiting to become obsolete. There are churches, however, where many of the people are there because they genuinely believe it, and they think that they have very good reason to believe it (and they aren't afraid of engaging with atheists who think otherwise), and they try to live out what they believe in real life. If you find a church like that, it feels and acts completely different.
- fsloth 7y agoI recognize this comment may sound derogatory. I merely attempted a poetic reference to the well-documented secularization of North Europe.