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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
    What? That catholics were opressed?

    Opression is a relative term, I suppose. Catholics weren´t allowed to openly practice or endorse their own religion, and I imagine that would have been a good enough reason for some to emigrate to, say, the USA.

    There was no functional hiearchy for the catholic church until the second half of the 19th century, when the last restrictions were lifted and the Pope decided to rebuild the church organisation in the Netherlands. This caused widespread unrest in the protestant parts of the lands, and our king showed his support for the unrest by saying he understood where they were coming from and that he wasn´t a fan of the papists either. This prompted our government (led by Thorbecke) to resign, and this in turn led to the tradition that the king/queen doesn´t open his mouth without consulting the PM.
    And now we are the plurality in the Netherlands, as large as all other religions and denominations combined. Ain't that a rub? There is still work to be done on the irreligious.
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    Default Re: Defense Distributed Is The Greatest

    que?

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    Default Re: Defense Distributed Is The Greatest

    Quote Originally Posted by ICantSpellDawg View Post
    And now we are the plurality in the Netherlands, as large as all other religions and denominations combined. Ain't that a rub? There is still work to be done on the irreligious.
    Meh, the majority nowadays is atheist or agnostic. Besides, a significant part of our catholics is of the lapsed kind which has embraced Babylon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
    Meh, the majority nowadays is atheist or agnostic. Besides, a significant part of our catholics is of the lapsed kind which has embraced Babylon.
    Yo, the netherlands have 50 % people without a denomination. I wouldn't go so far to call them all atheits or agnostics, though. Most of the people without a denomination came from protestant families, that's why there are now more catholics than protestants now. Quite some protestants are also evangelical nowadays.

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