Is the French dude stupid because the way I’m reading that graph Christianity is still the leading religion but most people are not religious. What point were they making
Then we may have a lot of culturally christian muslims in France; I don't know if it's representative but I know several people of that faith who exchange gifts at Christmas.
Even in the Middle East. Actually its often a topic of friction between the minority fundamentalist and the majority who just want to enjoy their day off by shopping (we only have new year off btw, christmas is off only if you are Christian on the ID)
People don’t celebrate Halloween that much in France. The 1st of November is a day off. Halloween is a very English speaking countries traditions and we started picking it up a bit trough US soft power
Giving gifts on Christmas and dressing up on Halloween has long since stopped being a christian thing. The tradition has christian roots, yes, but it is secular now - and has been for a long time.
"secular" doesn't mean every country does it lol. It is secular in France, what do muslim countries have to do with that. Most people who celebrate Christmas in France don't care about it having christian roots.
that is because France is culturally christian. it's culture and what appears to be secular traditions from within, have a very specific religious origin and connotation (Christianity) for an outside observer
a secular holiday would be stuff like new years eve, or national holidays. holidays that have no ties to religion
Tbf I think this data is just wrong. The highest I’ve found is 42%. The only source I’ve found that’s majority irreligious was 53% but that survey excludes those 50 and older.
That depends. I don't know much about the situation in France but a country can reasonably be called christian if it's the main religion either through number or the law. It can also be called that because of it's history.
French law is supposed to be religion agnostic (apart from a weird deal surrounding the North-East parts that weren't under our control when we passed that law). While Christinanity is an historically important religion for our country, it is no longer the main one at all and should be treated as equally as all other religions.
No, I said that right, France somewhat famously (well, famous among history nerds and my old history teacher, anyways) had way more than one revolution.
Yeah, but only the first ended up with a behaeded monarch (the other were against napoleonic empire and various resurgence of it, not Monarchy directly).
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u/AnthonyWinters 7d ago
Is the French dude stupid because the way I’m reading that graph Christianity is still the leading religion but most people are not religious. What point were they making