10,000 Church Members Leave the Church of Denmark in 3 Months Amid Atheist Ad Campaign
BY STOYAN ZAIMOV , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER
September 9, 2016|11:38 am
As many as 10,000 people left the Church of Denmark between April and June, statistics from the Scandinavian country have shown, due in part to a nationwide atheist campaign urging people to question the divinity of Jesus, and the importance of believing in God.
The Independent noted that the 10,000 people who left the faith in that time period is almost double the number who did the same between January and March, which has led the Danish Atheist Society to celebrate the news.
"We're pleased that Danes have taken the opportunity to express what they actually want. We have long seen in surveys that there aren't that many Danes who are devout Christians," Chairman Anders Stjernholm told Politiken.
"So I view [the withdrawals] as an expression of the fact that people can't really see why we should have an institution like the Church of Denmark that has such incredible influence and that takes one's money," he added.
The questions that were poised in banners around the country included things like "Why believe in a God?" "Why should faith cost something?" and "Did Jesus and Mohammed speak with a God?"
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