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YiorgosGRK

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What percentage of Greeks are atheists? Not just in Greece but other places
 
I know that but it seems like its more because most Greeks I run into say they are atheist, somwhat atheists (agnostics) or are lukewarm christian and just dont care.
I think those that are true orthodox are very little. They will go to church but its just a cultural social thing to them.
 
YiorgosGRK said:
I know that but it seems like its more because most Greeks I run into say they are atheist, somwhat atheists (agnostics) or are lukewarm christian and just dont care.
I think those that are true orthodox are very little. They will go to church but its just a cultural social thing to them.
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It would be hard to measure that and find a statistic for that, but I know what you mean!
 
I heard there was a university questionnaire asking 3k people how much they trust the Church and 67% said they dont trust it. Also people below 30, 50% of them
are atheists/agnostics, and the rest dont care about religion.
This is not good. The Greeks are turning their backs on the church that kept them alive from going extinct all those centuries.
But this is what happens when people become demoralised from cultural subversion.



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