I just overheard my brother saying that it's illegal to be Christian in all of Europe and that Europe is "gone".

@Burnley123 Some European countries have less separation of church and state than America.

@BohemianBabe Yes, absolutely.

Some have more, with France being an obvious example.

Britain is weird in that Protestant Christianity is the official state religion, but the country is much more secular than America. Though we have few regular practising Christians, it's a hangover on from more traditional times.

When it is political, our official church leans centre-left, based on the weird idea that Christians should care for the poor more than they should hate gays, bomb Palestinians or cut corporate taxes.

@Burnley123 bUt i'M tAlKiNg AbOuT eUrOpE

@BohemianBabe In most senses, referring to all of it as Europe is too broad anyway. It's so large with so many different cultures (and obviously countries) but here in the US we think of them all as the same thing lol.

@SinlessOnslaught Yeah, but the kind of people we're talking about think all of Europe has been taken over by Muslims or Marxists or the Illuminati or whatever.

@BohemianBabe Nazis. They think they're all nazis.

@AdaXI The thing is that you didn't consent to be baptized because you were just a baby then and they automatically charge you this tax just because you are in their system and you have the extra work to apply to be exempt from it. At least so I heard. I'm not German, I just read that they asked even expats if they were baptized and when they said yes, they automatically were considered to be the part of the church and pay the tax. I have no idea if they verify it in the home country though.

@CrazyMusicLover It’s only the evangelic and reformed churches
Jehovah witnesses have to give a percentage of their earnings to their church

@sarabee1995 🇺🇦💋 in which case i must observe that you are fortunate still to be walking the streets...

@splishsplash idk, I won't ask him. Pretty sure my mom already went behind my back to tell him to shut up about certain topics I have personal experience with. 😅 I'll keep things stable like this and just ignore it.

@SinlessOnslaught 🇺🇦 i have a war, i have no time for argument...

@Yulianna Слава Україні, my friend.

@SinlessOnslaught 🇺🇦❤🇺🇦

@Miram You're scary when you're angry and you're even scarier when you're not.

@FloorGenAdm Gone. Like, in a general sense.

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@FloorGenAdm I'm almost at work 😅

@Cassieeeee If I told you the craziest things he says you would demand to teach him a history lesson 😆

@Thevy29 How lol

@jshm2 so the Moomins have captured Jerusalem?

@CountScrofula It makes perfect sense when you look at materially. Acknowledging any real pockets of oppression would only serve to minimize their ability to create the illusion of their own.

@CountScrofula To be fair Islam is very much the same in this regard. There's something about the later two Abrahamjc religions desperately wanting to paint any lack of special privilege as oppression.