Religion in Isselmere-Nieland
The United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland is officially a secular state without any official or established religion since the Disestablishment Act of 2003. The United Kingdom is predominantly Christian and most public holidays are based upon the Christian calendar, but otherwise the separation of Church and State is rigorously maintained. Religion in Isselmere-Nieland, with the exception of certain belief systems that are considered cults,[1] is considered the free choice of His Majesty's subjects.
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Disestablishment
See also Reformed Church of Isselmere.
Geoffrey Walmsley, the Conservative prime minister, instituted the public bill to disestablish the Reformed Church of Isselmere after consultation with King Robert VI. Walmsley wished to reduce the electoral pressure on his party from the Labour Party of Isselmere-Nieland as well as to dissociate himself and fellow moderates within the Conservatives from an increasingly vocal anti-immigration wing within that party. The Royal Household, which had championed the rights of immigrants, supported the measure. The king readily granted royal assent once Parliament adopted the bill.
Christianity
Orthodox
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox
Protestant and Other
Lutheranism (Conventionalists)
Lutheranism was the first Protestant sect to make its mark on Isselmere-Nieland, or indeed the Lethean Islands as a whole, arriving through trade routes with Scandinavia and from Gudrof in the south and Nieland to the west. Locally, Lutherans are termed Conventionalists for their more orthodox interpretation of the Christian mass with regard to the bread and wine becoming the body and blood of the Christian Messiah, albeit affirming consubstantiation as opposed to truly orthodox doctrine of transubstatiation. The term Synodist or anti-Statist refers to the final disestablishment of the Lutheran Church in Isselmere in 1684, as well as the refusal of the Church to disband upon the order of King Harold (r. 1614-1618) in early 1615. With the rebellion of the Synod of Daurmont and the General Synod of Nieland threatening his hold on the realm placed great strain upon his brief reign, although other aspects of his rule led to his murder in 1618. Since the Lutheran Reformed Church in neither Gudrof nor Nieland were disestablished, they retained the epithet Statist to reflect their retention of authority as the established church within their domain.
Synodist (Synodist Conventionalist or Conventionalist anti-Statist)
- Church of Isselmere (established 1552, disestablished 1684)
Statist (Statist Conventionalist)
- Church of Gudrof
- Church of Nieland (disestablished 2003)
Calvinism (Symbolists)
Conventional Symbolist Statist Fatalist or Conventional Symbolist Statist Pre-destinarian
- Reformed Church of Isselmere (established 1684, disestablished 2003)
Conventional Symbolist Anti-Statist Fatalist or Conventional Symbolist Congregationalist Pre-destinarian
- True Reformed Church of Isselmere
Reformed Calvinist
Reformed Symbolist Anti-Statist or Conventional Symbolist Anti-Statist Anti-Burgher anti-Pre-destinarian
- Free Reformed Church of Isselmere
Zwinglianism
- Symbolist Statist (Zwinglian) - 12%
- Symbolist Anti-Statist (Reformed Zwinglian) - 9%
Historical statistics
On 5 December 2003, citizens of Isselmere-Nieland described themselves thusly:
- Christian - 56.5%
- Reformed Church of Isselmere - 58%
- Conventional Symbolist, Statist, Pre-destinarian (i.e. Calvinist)
- Dissenting Churches - 15%
- Calvinist
- Conventional Symbolist, Statist, Anti-Pre-destinarian (Reformed Calvinist) - 35%
- Lutheran
- Conventionalist Statist (Reformed Lutheran) - 23%
- Conventionalist Anti-Statist (Lutheran) - 21%
- Zwinglian
- Symbolist Statist (Zwinglian) - 12%
- Symbolist Anti-Statist (Reformed Zwinglian) - 9%
- Calvinist
- Roman Catholic - 20%
- Other - 7%
- Reformed Church of Isselmere - 58%
- Muslim - 6.3%
- Sunni - 87%
- Shia - 13%
- Sikh - 5.7%
- Buddhist - 5.6%
- Jewish - 5.4%
- Reformed - 82%
- Hasidic - 18%
- Pagan - 2.4%
- Deist - 2%
- None (Agnostic or Atheist) - 14%
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