So I invited my nonbelieving parents to midnight mass while mom was listening to some classical christmas music. She went "I would like the church to be like that"
"What do you mean?"
"One time in Slovakia we had to run out of midnight mass because there were guitars everywhere and it was terrible"
There are no lessons to be drawn from this anecdote
Out of curiosity, did your parents grow up under Communism?
Czech Republic and the former DDR seem to be some of the least religious places in all of Europe, and I'm curious if that is a result of some policy on the part of the former Marxist-Leninist regimes there.
It would seem likely but other nearby places that were under similar regimes (Poland) had religious resurgences there and I don't know what policy differences there were so I can't draw conclusions.
Also, Slovakia was under the exact same government as Czechia and they don't seem to have quite the same levels of atheism.
I'm weirdly autistic about religion and religious trends and demographics. If you ever feel up to doing an effort post on Czech atheism, I would love you forever (no homo)
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u/Stainonstainlessteel freedom hater 13d ago edited 13d ago
So I invited my nonbelieving parents to midnight mass while mom was listening to some classical christmas music. She went "I would like the church to be like that"
"What do you mean?"
"One time in Slovakia we had to run out of midnight mass because there were guitars everywhere and it was terrible"
There are no lessons to be drawn from this anecdote