Religion
From the 2000 census, 1,642 or 26.1% are Roman Catholic, while 3,561 or 56.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there is 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic faith, there are 92 individuals (or about 1.46% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 193 individuals (or about 3.06% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There are 2 individuals (or about 0.03% of the population) who are Jewish, and 251 (or about 3.99% of the population) who are Islamic. There are 16 individuals (or about 0.25% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 323 (or about 5.13% of the population) belong to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 216 individuals (or about 3.43% of the population) did not answer the question.
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“... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
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“The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)