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 cults and belief systems,^[1] is considered the free choice of His Majesty's subjects.

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, 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)

Synodists (Synodist Conventionalists)

• Church of Gudrof
• Church of Isselmere
• Church of Nieland

Calvinism (Symbolists)

Conventional Symbolists

• Reformed Church of Isselmere

Reformed Symbolists

Zwinglianism

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%

  • Roman Catholic - 20%
  • Other - 7%
• 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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