Reply #7: I live in France... [View All]

[europegirl4jfk]

... and I think having another European pope wouldn't change anything here. The French people are a pretty secular bunch nowadays. We have the separation of Church and State and religion isn't a subject at all in daily life. My daughter went to a so-called catholic private school and even there they didn't talk about religion very much.

I grew up in a Protestant part of Germany and the situation in this country isn't much different. OK, the separation of State and Church isn't that strict and we had - and they still have - religious classes at school. But that's more about acquiring knowledge about the different world religions than anything else.

I'm actually glad about this trend here in Europe. This new American religious fanaticism frightens me and it's even more shocking to see Latin America drift the same way. I really think in the 21st century mankind should overcome religion, or at least scale it back to Sunday school, church and the private corner it belongs to, in my opinion.