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    2. JacobJamesTrowbridge on

      Fun fact, there are only two countries on earth that include religious clerics in their national government make-up: the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Great Britain.

      I consider it a national disgrace.

    3. TheVenged on

      Denmark does not have a state religion…

      We have a recognized national church. Thats not the same thing though.

    5. FoolRegnant on

      If Denmark is on this map, then Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Finland should all be marked the same.

    6. barnaclejuice on

      A map either shows countries or States. IMO, If UK countries are all shown, so should places like the Basque Country or Catalonia.

    7. uusrikas on

      But for example Finland has two national churches that are allowed to tax people who are members, is that not state religion?

    8. OscarMMG on

      Andorra should be shown as well since one of its co-princes is the bishop of Urgell

    11. geschiedenisnerd on

      UK as a whole should count. The head of state is the head of the anglican church

    13. drLoveF on

      There should be a third category which is ”head of state has to follow a given religion”. Sweden is in that category.

    14. fanty_wingedhorse on

      Those religious freaks got into Vatican too? They must be stopped before they claim everything. /j

    15. RBII on

      The UK is full of these odd contradictions – yes, we have a state religion, however we have successfully converted that religion into a social club where God is an optional extra.

      Honestly for most people it’s about tea, cake and the outfits.

    17. JordanofNortholt on

      England is not in reality a Christian country, though. It is secular in practice.

    18. RoiDrannoc on

      Yeah so about France, it’s complicated. Many overseas have an official religion (Mayotte being the only one with Islam as its official religion) and Alsace-Moselle too because it wasn’t part of France when the separation of Churuch and state was proclaimed. So no state religion except in the places where there is. Also the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (which is ackowledged in the French constitution as being of constitutional status) had a mention of the “Supreme Being”, a deistic god of the Revolution.

    19. thgr8Makar0sc on

      The fact that 2 of them are famous for when they were not their state religion and the 3rd is a religion a guy made up on the fly to get a divorce is astonishing

    20. No-Afternoon3681 on

      In Germany if you define yourself as Protestant or Catholic on the census they automatically deduct your tithe to the Church come tax time

    21. yjlom on

      Belgium has 6 state religions (Catholism, Dutch Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sunnism, Judaism, and some form of Buddhism (I don’t remember the specifics on that one)).

    22. GroundThing on

      Andorra doesn’t have a state religion? Isn’t one of its princes literally a bishop?

    23. KhaosByDesignUK on

      For the UK is it still a state religion if the majority of the population don’t follow it? 

    24. jpc18 on

      What is a state religion? The Netherlands doesn’t have a official state church, but the king signs laws ‘by the grace of God’. So…

    25. Velalla on

      UK. TIL, “Church of England” is just that, the State Religion only in England, and not in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    26. Professional-Oil4964 on

      Don’t need a state religion if you send all your religious minorities to concentration camps.

    27. lukenog on

      Fun fact: there is only one country on the American continent with a State Religion and it’s the country my mom’s side of the family immigrated to the USA from – Costa Rica! 🇨🇷

      Most of my cousins in CR think it’s fucking stupid and want the government to get rid of the officialization of Catholicism, but it doesn’t really have much of an effect on day to day life in Costa Rica.