[GoldenState_Rose]

"You’d never know it today, but Norway was once a remarkably religious country. The Danish-Norwegian Nobel laureate, Sigrid Undset, won a Nobel prize for literature in 1928 for her extraordinary trilogy of historical novels, titled Kristin Lavransdatter. According to the Nobel committee, the award was conferred on her “principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages” and what strikes modern readers most is the pervasive religious component in the day-to-day life of pre-Reformation Scandinavia."

[pepsi_junkie]

They’ve gone from Christian to atheist. Another generation or two and they’ll go sharia law Islamic, like it or not.

[C19fan]

Amazing Scandinavia once produced Søren Kierkegaard.

[txrefugee]

Is this movement in all formerly Christian countries the “Great Falling Away” prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, a sign of the end times before Jesus returns to judge the earth? We should be preparing by being in the Word daily.

[dfwgator]

S***hole country.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Norway is not a $h1thole nation; it is an @$$hole nation.

[Hieronymus]

“You’d never know it today, but Norway was once a remarkably religious country. The Danish-Norwegian Nobel laureate, Sigrid Undset, won a Nobel prize for literature in 1928 for her extraordinary trilogy of historical novels, titled Kristin Lavransdatter. According to the Nobel committee, the award was conferred on her “principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages” and what strikes modern readers most is the pervasive religious component in the day-to-day life of pre-Reformation Scandinavia.”

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Undset also became Catholic, which may point to the Lutheranism even of her day as being a less than satisfactory outgrowth of the age of which she wrote.

[Harpotoo]

Since Norway is a welfare state it only makes sense that the people believe in the State and not themselves and God above.

[Wuli]

That the state has no official religion is fine and as it should be. The rest of it - what the society thinks about religion itself, is a different matter.

[Salman]

If “socially just government” has effectively taken the place of God then they have merely changed religions, not give it up.

Next move: Allah akhbar.

[laplata]

I think a better term for them is “Secular Humanist”. Government is their god.

[a fool in paradise]

The State is now god in their world.

Bow down before the One you serve, damned fools.

The State giveth and the State taketh away.

[Sam Gamgee]

Firstly, the idea of a “state” church is the opposite of what believers want, I would hope. Secondly, I am curious why faiths get state funding at all. It corrupts both the state and the Church.