cj.23
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Not going to church does not mean one does not believe in Christian ideology or that one does not consider themselves a Christian. Also the above line of thinking seems to assume that if more people in the UK and Scandinavia went to church the society would be more violent. This would probably be a false assumption and in fact the violence levels could be even lower then they are now if more people became Christian.
That is indeed possible. About 67% of the British population in 2000 considered themselves Christian - the gulf is between attendance and belief advocated. 85% of Swedes in census describe themselves as Lutheran - a far higher percentage. So both are still "Christian nations", in Britain legally so, as the Church of England is a state church. Sweden disestablished in 1999 - Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland remain legally Lutheran nations with State churches.
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