"Dutch bishops visiting Rome this week have given Pope Francis a dramatic snapshot of the steep decline of Roman Catholicism in its European heartland.
Both Catholic and Protestant Christian ranks have shrunk dramatically across Europe in recent decades, and hundreds of churches have been sold off to be turned into apartments, shops, bars or warehouses.
In the Netherlands, churches have been closing at a rate of one or two a week. The bishops told the pope in Rome on Monday that about two-thirds of all Roman Catholic churches in the Netherlands would have to be shut or sold by 2025, and many parishes merged, because congregations and finances were "in a long-term shrinking process".
Their five-yearly report blamed a "drastic secularization" of society, although a critical group of Dutch lay Catholics said the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by priests, which has afflicted many Catholic dioceses around the world, had also driven many people away, as had the closures themselves."
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/338181/news/world/dutch-bishops-give-pope-francis-bleak-picture-of-church-in-decline
Both Catholic and Protestant Christian ranks have shrunk dramatically across Europe in recent decades, and hundreds of churches have been sold off to be turned into apartments, shops, bars or warehouses.
In the Netherlands, churches have been closing at a rate of one or two a week. The bishops told the pope in Rome on Monday that about two-thirds of all Roman Catholic churches in the Netherlands would have to be shut or sold by 2025, and many parishes merged, because congregations and finances were "in a long-term shrinking process".
Their five-yearly report blamed a "drastic secularization" of society, although a critical group of Dutch lay Catholics said the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by priests, which has afflicted many Catholic dioceses around the world, had also driven many people away, as had the closures themselves."
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/338181/news/world/dutch-bishops-give-pope-francis-bleak-picture-of-church-in-decline
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Vanhimmat
Hienoa, l o i s t a v a a ! ! ! !
Antaa niitten istua norsunluutornissaan pohtimassa sitä saako kondomia käyttää vai ei, sillä aikaa väki kaikkoaa pikku hiljaa kirkoista.
Kirkkoja on suljettu 1-2 viikossa Hollannissa. Ja loistava ennustekin, 2/3 suljettu tai myyty vuoteen 2025 mennessä.
Suomessa mennään vauhdilla samaan suuntaan. Tuskin maltan odottaa mitä kirkolle tapahtuu edes muutaman vuoden päästä täälläkin. On vähän semmoinen tuntuma että kirkon alamäki on vasta alussa ja mäki sen kun jyrkkenee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Netherlands
Wikipedia: "In 2010 the Dutch population was made up of 16,615,000 people. Among these 24.6% (4.1 million) were Roman Catholics, 14.8% (2.5 million) were Protestants (of these 2.25 million or 13.5% were Reformed and Lutherans, 230,000 or 1.3% were other Protestants), 0.7% (130,000) were other Christians, Orthodox, Jehovah's Witnesses and others), 5% (907,000) were Muslims, 1.0% (170,000) were Buddhists, 0.9% (150,000) were Hindus. 8,527,000 people or 51.3% of the population were mostly non religious, and 1.2% were followers of other religions."
Miksihän nuo harhaiset vähäjärkiset pitää jakaa noin moneen eri ryhmään. Olisi paljon selkeämpää näin:
8 527 000 eli 51.3% on selväjärkisiä ateisteja ja loput harhaisia, keskimäärin tyhmempiä ihmisiä.
Ryhmittelyhän on kristinuskon logiikan mukainen. Vielä ymmärrettävämpi olisi tämä: on uskontokunnat roomalaiskatoliset, protestanttiset, muut kristityt, ortodoksit. Sitten ovat muslimit (Jumalan sanaa vääntävät, kuitenkin pakko todeta olemassa olevaksi uskonnoksi, onhan juuriltaan oman uskontomme kanssa samaa perua), pakanat (ne muut) ja ateistit (todelliset viholliset). Mitä sitä niitä jotain kaikkia lukuisia turhia poppamies-huuhailuja luettelemaan. Niitähän on niin mahdottoman montakin, ja samoja taikauskoisia rituaaleja kaikki käyttävät.