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Postby Samudera Darussalam » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:22 pm

No. Eventhough Muslims are predominant in the Crowned Republic, the nation has always had a firm tradition of tolerance towards the other religious groups due to the multiethnic nature of the country.

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New Kirrania
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Postby New Kirrania » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:24 pm

No, we are a very religiously tolerant nation

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Postby Abarri » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:26 pm

Abarri does not have an extreme religious divide, thanks to an irreligious majority. Interestingly, religious Catholic and Protestant students in Abarrian universities widely practice and encourage ecumenism.
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Postby Radiatia » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:34 pm

Not really. In the last century religious people were pretty systematically murdered by the communists, and the numbers never really recovered - even after democratisation, Radiatia remained a state atheist nation. (Although religion isn't banned - it's just discouraged.)

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Postby Gandoor » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:37 pm

There is no 'extreme religious divide' in Gandoor, predominantly because almost 70% of the population reports having no formal religious affiliation and, since the establishment of the modern Democratic Republic in 1904, our history of religious tolerance and secularism in society.
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Postby Augustan America » Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:49 am

Yes. America is filled with religious divides, but none is more sharp than that between traditionalist Christians and Americanist Pagans. Though many former Christians converted to Americanism, roughly 36% of the country still is apart of some form of Christian sect. Discrimination and violence, despite being illegal, has occasionally been used by both Christians and Americanists in regions where one is dominant.
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Postby Great Nortend » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:13 am

More than 90% of the population are members of the Church of Nortend, and any religious divide therein is comparatively minor.
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Postby Vedastia » Sat May 18, 2019 11:21 pm

There are numerous denominations of Christianity that have historically been opposed to one another (especially between Catholics and Calvinists in New Iberia), but Vedastia has become a nation tolerant of other faiths (for the most part) since independence.
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Postby Saciu » Sat May 18, 2019 11:40 pm

Until the Mid 20th century, all religions except for Traditional Saquianism were banned, but these laws were rarely enforced, the last time a person being convicted for blasphemy being the Reclaiming of La Corona in the early 1800s. However, nowadays, most religions get along well. Saquianism is the second most common belief, at 21%, with irreligion claiming 52% of the population. 6% are Buddhist and Shinto each, with 2% going to Jewish, Hindi and Lautenne, another indigenous belief.
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Postby Zeganas » Sun May 19, 2019 11:24 am

The United Republics of predominantly atheist, but the two largest religions, abrahamism and salisaro spiritualism, are at odds with one another because a lot of their values are opposite of one another, especially on things like homosexuality. Salisaro spiritualism is generally a more socially progressive religion. In the republic of Palanu this divide has reached a boiling point and there's religious conflicts in the republic.
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Postby Paraisouro » Sun May 19, 2019 3:35 pm

There isn't much of a religious divide in Paraisouro. Christians make up 70% of the population, atheists/agnostics make up 16% and other religious (Judaism, Hinduism, etc) make up the remaining 14%. But everyone gets along with one another, there is a lot of religious freedom and tolerance in Paraisouro.

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Postby Quaeg » Sun May 19, 2019 3:41 pm

There is a divide, but not an extreme ones. There are people who take the philosophy of Ancestor Worship figuratively and people who take it literally.

- Figurativists believe that revering the ancestors is a spiritual act meant to bring one in harmony with their culture and shared history and to help one be thankful and content in a world that was built by past generations and to learn from the examples of the past to forge the future. This is more of a spiritual aspect.

- Literalists believe that the ghosts of the dead remain after their deaths and can influence the world of the living. They pray to them to bring good luck or to ask the ancestors to reveal omens and portents of the future. This is more of a superstitious aspect.

Ultimately, people tend to fall somewhere between the two.
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Postby Madohomuland » Tue May 21, 2019 3:14 am

If you consider the 100% of Madokaists to 0% of anything else extreme then yes.

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Meikaii
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Postby Meikaii » Tue May 21, 2019 3:25 am

Meikaii's people voted via referendum to criminalize religion and to set their own punishments for it, including the death penalty. So, no divide anymore and none shall come again.
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Postby TURTLESHROOM II » Tue May 21, 2019 10:07 am

TurtleShroom has always been known for ecumenialism and harmony between Christian denominations. TurtleShroom is a Protestant nation, with a majority of its population being Baptists. However, the second-largest denomination, by far, is the Church of the Russian Old Believer Orthodoxy of TurtleShroom, which, as the name suggests, comprises of the pre-Niekas status of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The latter came shortly after the former established Missionary camps in what would become TurtleShroom, and they always had peace with one-another. The Orthodox Church in TS was never pleased with the Catholics, and are the reason the Catholic Church wasn't established in TurtleShroom until 1920 AD.

TurtleShroom's Constitution considers religious freedom and the rights to worship, to live according to one's faith, and to proselytize their faith to be the cornerstones of all civilized and free societies. Other than a short list of prohibited faiths, the general rule of the country is "anything goes".

The Constitution of TurtleShoom only bans a short list of religions: Scientology, Pastafarianism, Violetism, Satanism (both the Atheistic/LaVey sect and actual deification of Satan), sorcery or witchcraft, and the various Caananite and Babylonian pagan religions of old. Bans on human sacrifice and fraudulent practices disguised as religion (e.g. the "parody religions") are also enforced.

That isn't to say, though, that the people of TurtleShroom are uniformly tolerant to every religion that isn't banned. TurtleShroomers generally refuse to tolerate Islam unless it's the Sufi mystical sect found in Darussalam. The most common, non-slur term used to describe Muslims is "the demon seed of Ishmael". Sunni Islam and Shia Islam are extremely rare in the country and are actively opposed and kept out of TurtleShroom through subtle influences, local politics, and other such "behind the scenes" back scratching and backroom operations to keep them away. This is almost uniformly an effort taken by the private sector, the people, and other non-governmental organizations.

Due to the Constitution's provisions, the Crown does not and cannot openly, overtly, or directly influence anything against Islam, but soft power and persusaion without using state power goes a long way.
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Postby Drongonia » Tue May 21, 2019 12:13 pm

No, as the majority of people (just over 50%) are irreligious, and the others are pretty peaceful about it.

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Postby The Great-German Empire » Wed May 22, 2019 12:45 pm

In Germany, there is roughly a 39-22-33-4 split for Protestant, Catholic, Irreligious, Other. All of South Germany barring Württemberg, and considerable parts of western Germany, are historically Catholic (Note that here this includes Austria, Slovenia, Friaul and Alsace), but the amount of Catholics there has been eroded very significantly indeed by the Second Great War, fought against France and Italy, the latter of which had a rather clerical regime, and again after that as large swaths of the Catholic parts of Germany were controlled by Rudolf Honecker's Communist government, and subsequently served as the battleground in the battle between the Communists and the Loyalists in 1994's Civil War. Meanwhile the Protestants' numbers were bolstered by the large amounts of Africans living in the states of Gold Coast, South-West Africa and East Africa, whose then-colonial overlords promoted Protestantism as the one true faith throughout the entire colonial period.

Irreligious people have become a part of the mainstream and actually have a plurality in mainland Germany and an outright majority in the western states thereof, and the Protestants and Catholics don't really mind anymore, especially since most conservative policies have long since been detached from religion. There are debates now and then, but they rarely affect the lives of your average Hans.
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Postby Scorpio Spikal » Wed May 22, 2019 1:05 pm

Yes, there is no ban, but a massive split between Agnosticism and Atheism (68%) and Christianity (19%) + Islam (4%) + Hinduism (1%).
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Postby Idoho » Wed May 22, 2019 2:37 pm

Officially no. The state manages all Christian religious sects through the Central Religious Committee. All other religions are banned and those caught practicing them or practicing no religion are forcibly converted or executed.

In reality these state actions have driven members of banned religions underground which has caused terrorist activity.

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Postby Luvria » Wed May 22, 2019 8:18 pm

The majority of the country is nonreligious. With large and growing minority (now roughly 40% of the adult population) that follows the traditional Luviri faith of Khojhanism.

As the practitioners of the religion tend to be quietist and the nonreligious of the country generally have the same social values as religious practitioners, the divide causes no serious political tension.

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The Imperial Roman Empire
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Postby The Imperial Roman Empire » Wed May 22, 2019 8:19 pm

No altough in our middle eastern territories, the Jewish and Islamic populace have some issues
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Postby Weimar Germany- » Thu May 23, 2019 2:11 pm

It's not too extreme, but it's present.

The southern states, especially Bavaria, are significantly more catholic than the protestant northern states (especially the Free State of Prussia). However, Silesia and East Prussia have seen rising numbers of Atheism and Agnosticism in recent years.

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Postby Harmonic Empire » Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:13 am

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Postby West Sahara Company » Thu Aug 01, 2019 10:38 am

The divide is clear, but nonviolent. The government is mostly Christian or atheist colonists, while the vast majority of the native populace is Muslim. No conflicts emerge due to very careful policies of tolerance by the government, but it's plain that they're different not only in religion, but culture.
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