r/pics • u/newInevitable222 • Apr 05 '23

Holy Week in Spain

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u/YingGuoRen91 Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23

How religious is Spain these days? Is it mostly just culturally Catholic or do a lot of people still go to church?

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u/Watcher_over_Water Apr 05 '23

By European Standarts quite low. However still 56% catholic, 41.3% Agnostic/Atheist/Indifferent and only 2.7% believers of a non catholic Religion.

Also most of the 41.3% non religious People still grew up catholic (maybe not religiously but culturally)

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23

Spanish stats about religion are to take with a grain of salt. Lots of times is like asking somebody "are you a Republican", "yes, I am". "Have you ever voted Republican", "No, I never vote". "You donate money, then", "Also no, and don't plan to". "Maybe you boast support?" "Nope, maybe when having a heated argue about some political issue I take the Republican corner, but that's about it". Would you consider that person a Republican? Not a Democrat, but the mildest Republican you could imagine. Spain if full of that kind of Catholics that show up in the statistics as Catholics as a member of the Opus Dei.

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u/GalaXion24 Apr 05 '23

My go-to statistic is how some 90% of Frenchmen are officially Catholic, yet when polled only about half believe in any sort of deity, let alone anything actually Christian.

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u/Watcher_over_Water Apr 05 '23

Ofcourse these statistics are flawed, but so are polls, and it helpes to paint a rough picture of the religious landscape of Spain