Some 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 Christian Post website reports today (September 10, 2016).
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.
"We are 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," said Anders Stjernholm, Chairman of the Danish Atheist Society.
"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 an incredible influence and takes one's money," he added.
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The time has come for a cleansing of the Church. Those who apostatize themselves from Christianity were, for the majority, never Christian. Persecution, martyrdom, confession of our Christian faith and love for Christ and His teachings are signs of a true Christian. So-called Christians are in the habit of creating their own Christ, their own Church, their own morality. These people are to be pitied.
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