Jeroen wrote <<How can a country be religious when most of its population is *not* religious?>>
Matt Grimaldi wrote <<One way is if a large portion of the population immigrated from countries that cracked down on _any_ religion at the time they left.>> Jeroen asked <<But if those people left because they could not practice their religion, would it not be logical that they would start practicing their religion again after they left said country?>> I don't know many families that left SU because they could not practice religion there - some left because of anti-Semitism, some because of communism, some because they believed that their motherland is Israel. Some of those who came here became religious, some observe less - because *there* you observed religious rules to keep your uniqueness (sp) and there is no reason for it here. Ilana from Israel, former from "Russia"
