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Internet Deconstructing State Church in Finland

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-does-finland-have-a-state-church dept.

Agnostic writes "Freethinkers of the city of Tampere, who advocate separation of state and church in Finland, created a Web site in 2003 to assist people in resigning from the church. The Web site soon became a big success in Finland. 39% of all resignations in 2004 went through the web site and 69% of all resignations in 2005. In the same process 22% more people resigned from the church in 2005 than in 2004. The most common reason cited for resigning from the church has been saving church income tax (1.3% on average)."

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  1. Church? by Irashtar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along..
    I resigned from the church ages ago, where's the site to help people resign from the state?

    1. Re:Church? by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Funny

      http://www.google.com/search?q=guns

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      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  2. Someone should make something like this... by s-gen · · Score: 5, Funny

    for "resigning" from AOL

  3. Re:I'm glad I don't pay any tithes... by EL_mal0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It used to be 10%, but some priest got greedy and wanted to collect more money, so he proposed "Tithing^2 -- Taking god's money to the MAX!".

    It was much later that he realized his mistake.