“When we came to Spain,” says the Ukrainian refugee, “we wondered how we’d get along with the Catholics. After 10 months here, though, we haven’t met a single Catholic, so now we realize we should have wondered how we’d do among all the atheists.”
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“When we came to Spain,” says the Ukrainian refugee, “we wondered how we’d get along with the Catholics. After 10 months here, though, we haven’t met a single Catholic, so now we realize we should have wondered how we’d do among all the atheists.”
Certainly Ukrainians would’ve encountered atheists back home?
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Of course, but what they find shocking is that religion is completely absent from people’s lives in Spain. After being a country defined by religion for the entirety of its history and until very recently, Spain went in the opposite direction practically overnight.
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