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Originally Posted by SaraMaglione
I was born in Italy and my family still lives there. I moved in GB two years ago and I noticed that the conception of religion in Italy is quite different than in the rest of the world (I've travelled a lot and I now what I'm saying). In Italy everyone is catholic and people who have a different religion are regarded as different. Personally I am an atheist (and I don't want to bore you with all the reasons that made me change my mind, cause I was Catholic when I was a kid) but I think that having the Vatican in Italy can be in some ways a good thing, but he influences a lot the catholics, even concerning politics. I think it's wrong, because the Pope shouldn't influence politics, and of course the politicians shouldn't influence people's religious belief.
I don't like the way people think in Italy : the catholic church, in THEIR opinion, is better and more civilized than all the others and all the people who don't belive in God (the christian God of course) are only the minority. I don't think so and I don't like the way they think. What do you think about this? Is there any Italian who would like to say something about that?
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I lived in Italy(in the south) for some years, what you are saying about the differency is correct but not only. I am cristian orthodox & Greek and most people there believed that orthodox Greeks ment that we are either muslim or Jews. When I asked them how come they don't know other religions and what they are they told me that that's what they've being told in chattechismo(I don't know the english word). Practically they were taught that the only cristians are the catholics. So not only if you are not catholic in Italy you are considered different but there is a vast misinformation.
[The misinformation doesn't stop there, the first question that Italian university students did to me is if in Greece we have electricity
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The influence of the church in politics is not an italian thing. It happens in many countries (for example the Muslim ones). I think that the Italians through the centuries have left the Vatican do that. And don't ever forget the economic influence and power that the Vatican has. Without that do you think that would have influenced anyone???I certainly don't.