skygiants

you'd get all these comments like, "you don't understand, people aren't religious in Denmark," etc.

For the most part, I'm grateful that we don't get the same level of religious craziness as the US does (singular freaks like Åke Green notwithstanding), but I sometimes fear that the sheer low key-ness of it all makes it all the more insidious. That people honestly believe that there's nothing religious about having mandatory church events for school children where a priest talks and everyone sings "born is our Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour and God." Which is kind of insulting to Christians, too, when you think about it.

But the U.S. also doesn't have the kind of emphasis on preserving national unity that France does

Sweden has more of a positive attitude to non-Swedishness, I think, but it also means that Swedishness is defined very narrowly; the thought that someone might be Muslim (or Buddhist, or even religiously Jewish) and Swedish hardly ever arises.

I'm painting the devil on the wall here - obviously not everyone is like that - but, yeah.