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| Europe |
| German churches lose 430,000 Catholic and Protestant members in 2018 |
| 2019-07-21 |
| [DW] The Catholic and Protestant churches both lost over 200,000 members last year. The losses have hit the churches hard, as members of both churches pay up to 9% of their taxable income as church taxes. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 "as members of both churches pay up to 9% of their taxable income as church taxes." Go figure |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-07-21 21:17 |
| #7 They'll all bow down to Mecca soon enough. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-07-21 16:27 |
| #6 Religion is best when carried in the heart rather than worn on the sleeve. Being that you can lose your job over public displays of |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-07-21 15:27 |
| #5 @SteveS, They tried and failed to appeal to them. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-07-21 15:08 |
| #4 They have managed to appeal to everyone except people who want an actual church. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-07-21 13:25 |
| #3 When there's more mention of Marx than Jesus that happens. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-07-21 11:23 |
| #2 Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are the modern church that they worship at... |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-07-21 09:37 |
| #1 Liberalism in the church not based on fundamental interpretation of scripture, aka "inclusion" which ironically leads to fewer members. If your theology is secular, why even bother going. |
| Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-07-21 01:05 |