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A group for all the atheists from Finland in the Atheist Nexus

Website: http://beinghuman.blogs.fi
Location: Finland
Members: 33
Latest Activity: Nov 20, 2011

The right to worship freely is guaranteed by Article 8 and Article 9 of the Constitution of 1919 and by the Freedom of Religion Act that went into effect in 1923. In the 1980s, there were about thirty registered religions in the country, all of which met the minimum requirement of having at least thirty followers. Despite this wealth of religions, the country's religious life was dominated by one of its two state churches, the Lutheran Church of Finland, which had nearly 90 percent of the population as members.

The other state church, the Orthodox Church of Finland, had a membership of about 1 percent of the population. The remaining churches or religions had 2 percent of the people in their congregations. Followers of the smaller churches included Jews, Muslims, Roman Catholics, a variety of Protestants, Mormons, Christian Scientists, and converts to eastern religions. Seven percent belonged to no church

Nationality:
noun: Finn(s)
adjective: Finnish

Ethnic groups: Finn 93%, Swede 6%, Lapp 0.11%, Gypsy 0.12%, Tatar 0.02%

Religions:

Evangelical Lutheran 89%,
Greek Orthodox 1%,
none 9%,
other 1%

Languages: Finnish 93.5% (official), Swedish 6.3% (official), small Lapp- and Russian-speaking minorities

Country name:
conventional long form: Republic of Finland
conventional short form: Finland
local long form: Suomen Tasavalta
local short form: Suomi

source; About.com
http://atheism.about.com/library/world/AJ/bl_FinlandIndex.htm

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Comment by Mika on October 20, 2008 at 10:07pm: Eikös nuo tilastot ole hieman vanhentuneita, vai tulkitsenko tuota lähdettä hieman väärin?
"Data as of December 1988"
20 vuotta on suht pitkä aika.
Eikös tuohon voisi melkeinpä lisätä, että suomessa kirkosta eroaa nykyään melkein 1% vuodessa ja määrä on kasvussa.

Comment by Jaakko Wallenius on July 22, 2008 at 4:46pm: Kun kaikki eivät englantia osaa tai halua käyttää, on nyt suomenkielisillekin vapaasti ajatteleville ihmisille oma sosiaalinen yhteisönsä osoitteessa http://vapaatori.ning.com

Comment by KenLoukinen on July 19, 2008 at 1:41pm: buybull= bible (buy bull(shit)

Comment by Jaakko Wallenius on July 19, 2008 at 4:34am: Ken, what is a buybull?

Comment by KenLoukinen on July 18, 2008 at 6:05pm: I'm not a Finnish citizen..but as you can see from my last name, I would like to be a member of this group.
My grandparents moved to the US in 1901. I did get to live in Helsinki for 2 years as a child, but I don't know very much and would love to visit. I promise to leave my buybull home

Comment by Jaakko Wallenius on July 18, 2008 at 5:57pm: If the states of the US of A have their own groups here, there should also be groups for the independent nations of the world, I think. So here is a group for us Finns, for what it is worth.