Talk:Religion in Iceland

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I now leave this in the care of the good folks at Category:Wikipedians in Iceland.--T. Anthony 06:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

"but there isn't "organized secularism" comparable to the Human-Etisk Forbund of Norway." This is actually not true - Siðmennt (http://www.sidmennt.is/) is exactly such an association and was founded in 1990. :) Margrét Dóra

I'll correct that.--T. Anthony 07:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

While it does specify that church attendance is low and belief also likely is hard to come by, this article only lists membership in religious organizations, not actual religious beliefs. As such, it's not useful to those of us who want to determine how many Icelanders are, for example, atheists. If Iceland is like Norway, you're born into membership in the church and most people simply do not bother to void their membership, their lack of belief notwithstanding. Hence, that 82% of Icelanders are members of a certain church does not at all mean they conform to or believe that branch of Christianity. --Safe-Keeper 00:18, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

I second that I am an atheist but it's just too complicated and problematic to try to get signed out of the church (I live in Iceland). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.144.18.242 (talk • contribs) 23. August 2007, 01:05

Actually it does say or does so as best it can. According to the Eurobarometer 11% "do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force." Now it's possible those who said they believe in a "spirit or life force" are basically non-theist so you could put the number of nontheists up to 62%. Granted this may even be flawed but what people "really believe" is sometimes hard to measure.--T. Anthony (talk) 11:51, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Is it really? Print out this form, fill it in and mail it (or fax) to the National Registry. --Bjarki 19:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

In the chapter "2 Conversion to Christianity" it says: "Iceland initially converted to Christianity in a partial and diplomatic way. The compromise measure came about due to the Norse-pagan Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði"

However in Christianization of Iceland (and this is how I was told it happened in school):

"He [the king of Norway] refused Icelandic travellers access to Norwegian ports and took as hostages several Icelanders then dwelling in Norway. This cut off all trade between Iceland and its main trading partner. Some of the hostages taken by King Olaf were the sons of prominent Icelandic chieftains, whom he threated to kill unless Iceland accepted Christianity." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.144.18.242 (talk) 23:05, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

There are de facto two articles about the "Christianization of Iceland": (1) Christianization of Iceland and (2) Bishop of Reykjavik (Catholic) - Couldn't these two articles combined to one ("Christianization of Iceland")? Gecko78 19:45, 14 October 2007 (UTC)