Szwecja - jedyny region w Europie w którym przybywa katolików.

A tak kwestię luterańskiego post-chrześcijaństwa w Szwecji widzi muzyk black-metalowy z grup Funeral Mist i Marduk. Bynajmniej nie chrześcijańskich. Tym niemniej: opis sytuacji ciekawy, szczególnie w kontekście tego, kto to mówi.

Rostén adds that anti-Christian activism isn’t especially relevant to the Sweden of today, seeing as how it’s difficult to compete with the national Swedish church in terms of heretical conduct.
– Needless to say, one naturally tends to attack the things which are, if not in one’s immediate surrounding, then at least in the greater area; to lash out at targets within arm’s reach, so to speak. But, as you know, Christianity here in Sweden is virtually non-existent these days – vanquished, or at least reduced to something so far removed from its former self that it’s hard to even recognise. But it doesn’t end there! It’s now gone so far that the remnants of this cult refuse to simply admit defeat and just lay down to die; instead, they go to extraordinary lengths in humiliating themselves through what seems to be some sort of celebration of their own demise, striding forth in colourful parades filled with distinctly un-Christian-like perversions and constantly trying to reinvent themselves in ways one more bizarre than the other. For example, there are now priests who seek to consecrate divorces the same way they bless marriages, while others produce children’s books in which Jesus is described as ‘queer’ and Joseph as ‘transsexual’. Then we have bishops who claim they have more in common with Muslims than other Christians, as well as churches replacing the cross with an arrow towards Mecca in some attempted display of interreligious tolerance. Lest we forget the new guidelines being proposed, where God is no longer to be addressed as ‘He’.

(...) – The list goes on and on – a constant flow of perpetual self-deprecating efforts from a clergy doing their utmost to adopt the most current popular political views, all in a desperate and equally pathetic attempt at staying relevant. All well and good, if that’s the approach you want to take, but everyone knows it’s anything but the Christian way. It’s as dishonest as it is spineless and you’re fooling no one. What keeps fascinating me though, is how lightly these characters look upon the transformation of what they allegedly believe to be the actual word of God into something so completely foreign it’s hard to even recognise; at times, even to a point where it directly contradicts the original meaning… all in order to fit into the current state of their respective society whilst still being able to retain their religious identity or whatnot. Is that really how lightly you take the will and words of your almighty God? Speaks volumes, doesn’t it? (...)

What kind of societal impact do you observe from this?
– One problem is that when an entire society discards religion in the fashion we have over here, then other, equally unfounded, ideologies tend to move in to take its place. As you know, most of us are inclined to feel kind of lost without something higher to believe in since that God-shaped hole in our hearts – sometimes referred to as anxiety – will sooner or later have to be filled. We can see the seeds of this sprouting even now. Take the climate movement for instance, painstakingly saturated by all the characteristics of a religious cult: doomsday preaching, overzealous public sermons, full-on witch hunts, and so on. They’ve even invented a new messiah, for pity’s sake!

http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2020/03/03/funeral-mist-interview/