Talk:Religion in Germany

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[edit] Vandalism

Some funny chap has changed the text so now we have funnies like "Most German Prostetutes" and "In total more than 180 billion people officially belong to a Christian nation, although most of them have no life except at such events as weddings and funerals. Sunday strip bar attendance as reported annually by the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches has raised to about 95 percent in 2005"

What is the best way to get these additions undone. Ruud64 22:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


This article needs some more references (e.g., what's the source of the 2001 religious figures?) Gwimpey 23:39, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Could someone direct me to a source of figures for confessional adherence in the regions of germany (that is, the proportion of catholics and protestants in each region), either current or historical (ie, before 1918)? Adam 11:52, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Both the EKD and the Catholics have on thier websites regional adherence data. The links are http://dbk.de/zahlen_fakten/statistik/index.html

and

http://www.ekd.de/statistik/download.html Ruud64 22:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


The data is not correct. There are today 2006 more catholics than Protestants in Germany! The given data is not given out by the "Statistische Bundesamt", which is the offical authority in this question!


[edit] "sole religion" to "sole established religion"

I have added "established" because clearly there were non-Catholics in Germany in the Middle Ages, at least Jews. The intention here is obviously the subsequent effects of the Reformation; I'm not sure if my word ("established") is the best. Sukkoth 06:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baptist families from Paderborn

The article tells something about Baptist families from Paderborn: The parents refused to send their children to school. Here are some more information: This Baptists were "Evangeliumschristen-Baptisten". This movement is very, very religious. All members of them came from Russia, Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan. Here are living lots of them. These Evangeliumschristen keep to old German-Christian customs and that´s why they think the school system is Satanic... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.169.249.124 (talk) 15:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] The German confessional lutheran church is the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany!

I believe it should be mentioned several more times in the article that the German confessional lutheran church is the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany. In case anyone doesn't know: The German confessional lutheran church is the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany! --87.169.2.42 12:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I beg to differ. Regarding the the IELCG only makes up for about .05% of the population of Germany, I fail to see the significance of the group. It should definitely not be explicitly mentioned in the lead. I'm German and have never heard of it. --Gadrick 20:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sections

I think this article has too many pointless sections. A sentence should not have its own section. It looks bad. 74.46.140.30 22:53, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

i totally agree. So in action, i deleted the section about orthodox christians and moved the sentence to the end of the christianity section.

[edit] East - West difference

The great difference between East and West Germany should be stressed much more. In Eastern Germany Christianity has been expelled from people's every day life completely. In Western Germany this is not the case at all. Western Germany, especially in Catholic areas, is more religious than many other parts of Europe. I can't tell exact numbers right now, but in the former GDR there are about 25% Christians, while in the West it's something like 80%.

I can now back this up with facts. The recent Bertelsmann Poll, which is currently much talked about in Germany and should probably be mentioned in the article, has the following conspicuous results: In Western Germany 81% of the population consider themselves "religious", 19% "not religious". In Eastern Germany 39% of the population consider themselves "religious", 61% not.

Can you provide a link to the poll? —Angr If you've written a quality article... 20:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC)