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Offline tak

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #315 on: May 18, 2007, 12:48:23 AM »
Correct!
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Offline New History lovers

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #316 on: May 18, 2007, 11:10:11 AM »
This country, despite having Protestantism as it's official religion, has many Catholics in positions of power.
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Offline Delfos

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #317 on: May 18, 2007, 01:29:37 PM »
Ireland?
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Offline FeherTigris

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #318 on: May 18, 2007, 07:11:04 PM »
maybe I am wrong, but there are no state or official religions nowadays with protestants, but if you mean majority religion it can be The Netherlands.
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #319 on: May 18, 2007, 10:21:35 PM »
Switzerland?
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Offline New History lovers

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #320 on: May 19, 2007, 03:04:52 AM »
Nope, there are still countries with official religions, and this is one of them.  None of the answers above is correct: Ireland actually is officially Catholic, the Netherlands is officially protestant, but doesn't meet the Catholics specification, and Switzerland has a different official religion for each canton.
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Offline Delfos

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #321 on: May 19, 2007, 03:26:52 AM »
North Ireland
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #322 on: May 19, 2007, 04:15:39 AM »
Not a country.
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Offline Delfos

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #323 on: May 19, 2007, 04:51:12 AM »
Norway
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Offline tak

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #324 on: May 19, 2007, 05:09:24 AM »
Deutschland
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Offline New History lovers

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #325 on: May 19, 2007, 02:01:04 PM »
Norway has Protestantism as official, but does not have a significant number of Catholics in public office.

Germany has no official religion on a Federal level, though Lutheranism is considered de facto, Bavaria, notably, has Catholicism as an official religion.
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Offline Delfos

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #326 on: May 19, 2007, 02:32:19 PM »
got a tip from a friend, UK?
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Offline tak

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #327 on: May 19, 2007, 05:14:39 PM »
the United States?
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Offline The Abode

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #328 on: May 19, 2007, 05:31:06 PM »
Quote from: New History lovers on May 19, 2007, 03:04:52 AM
the Netherlands is officially protestant,
I don't think that's true. I'm Dutch myself, and I don't think we have any form of state religion.
Our Queen is a protestant, true, and we have an established church called the Dutch Reformed Church, but that one is not official.
After the Eighty Years War we have been an officially Calvinistic country, tolerant towards other religions and harboring them. Yet currently there is no official state religion. The Eighty Years War is a long time ago.

For reference: the wikipedia entries for The Netherlands and for State Religions have no mentions of my country having a state religion.

As an answer to your question. I think it's the UK (though someone else already said this one)
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Offline New History lovers

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #329 on: May 19, 2007, 05:52:23 PM »
Religious tolerance and even freedom has absolutely nothing to do with whether there is an official religion.  Many nations have official religions while allowing full freedom for all others, like the Netherlands.  "Establishment" means it is official.

The United States has no official religion (it is officially religiously free, explicitly stated in its Constitution (see Amendment I), AND it doesn't have many Catholics in positions of power.

Delfos, is however, correct. The United Kingdom has Anglicanism, a version of protestantism, as its official religion, yet, the outgoing Tony Blair is an Anglo-catholic (meaning, officially a member of the Anglican Church but following all the Catholic rites), the Speaker, Michael Martin, is a Catholic, as are significant numbers of both Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet offices.
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