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Spain (I'm spaniard) is passively catholic. Catholic church is everywhere, but you will struggle to find people less than 60 year old going to Mass. Except for
by otherme123 6y ago
Spain (I'm spaniard) is passively catholic. Catholic church is everywhere, but you will struggle to find people less than 60 year old going to Mass.
Except for the typical extremes, people here has, generally speaking, a "live and let live" mentality. For example, the latests polls show over 70% of people pro-euthanasia and only 15% against it. Another poll shows that around 75% of the people declares themselves catholic. So when you picture a "Catholic Spain", imagine a lot of people that were born into a religion, they recognize themselves as catholic, but couldn't care less. This is a good place to live your religion or atheism in peace.
- mejutoco 6y agoI did not make any point with how prevalent Catholicism is in Spain, or any personal observation on it. I was correcting the original comment, because it is a common misunderstanding. Spain is not officially catholic, and this is explicitly stated in the spanish constitution (Art. 16 section 3.) https://app.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=16&tipo=2 https://app.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/a...
- otherme123 6y agoAnd I was adding to your point that is not only that Spain is officially secular, but also that the society is quite relaxed about religion. I find Spain quite different from Turkey, for example, which is officially secular but the society is not.