The Swedish Church's membership statistics show that the church has lost nearly one million members since 2008. The declining number of members believes representatives are mainly due to people dying - however, it is unclear how many who have actively left. The low interest in the Swedish Church, in turn, means that churches are closed down and in some cases converted to mosques.
Social news has on several occasions noted how the Swedish Church becomes everything with left-wing radicalism and engages in asylum activism. Just a couple of weeks ago
, we
reported how a church in Pajala had lent its premises to conduct a Muslim prayer call.
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Another number of examples are how churches
hide illegal immigrants from the police's internal alien checks and the execution of deportation decisions. Furthermore, a left-wing extreme climate sector has been
funded , arranged with
subsistence for beggar bosses, campaigned with bell rings for Afghan
migrants without asylum reasons and also had a
support concert for IS-children's right to come to Sweden.
A Twitter post published by the Swedish Church in 2018.
Strong race in the number of members
We have taken a closer look at the Church of Sweden's
statistics on the members to see how the number has changed in recent years. The Church makes clear in its account that the change in the number of members between two different times can be explained by three different net calculations:
1) Generational change: More or fewer children are baptized compared to how many members die.
2) Entrance / exit net: More or fewer actively enter the Swedish Church (entry of people who are 12 years or older, unbaptized children) compared to how many actively leave.
3) Relocation Net: How many members move to or from a geographical area (not shown in the table below but explain the remaining membership change).
The church is careful to point out that immigration to Sweden is increasing the population, which means that the percentage of the population who are church members is falling. But besides that detail, the fact remains that the church has lost a total of 852,710 members during the period 2008-2018.
The Swedish Church claims that it is deceased
The local newspaper
Mitti has recently spoken with the
center-partisan church pastor Jerker Alsterlund in west Stockholm to hear how it is going to reduce the number of members. He states that the loss in the number of members nationally is not mainly due to people leaving the church but because they are deceased and new ones are not added.
- There is a nationally implied fact that the biggest reason we are reducing is not that people are leaving but people are dying. But then there are many fewer who are baptized and join. Spånga-Kista is also a multicultural congregation where many belong to other churches and other religions.
Archbishop Antje Jackelén with church pastor Jerker Alsterlund.
A closer look at
resignations during the period 2008-2018 shows that as many as 714,126 persons of the
total membership loss of 852,710 are registered as "resignations". It is unclear whether this includes both deceased and those who have actively chosen to leave the church.
Churches are closed down
On Christmas Eve, the state television announced that as many as 104 churches have been decommissioned during the 2000s. Just last year, about ten churches were taken out of service due to declining membership numbers and that more and more people are moving to big cities, reports
SVT .
Markus Dahlberg is responsible for cultural heritage at the Swedish Church and he comments on the closures that "it is as good to get used to".
- This is something we will be able to live with for a long time to come, comments Dahlberg.
The closed churches are reportedly in some cases converted into homes, museums and schools. However, not much focus is placed on the fact that many churches have been converted into mosques.
A triumph for Muslims to take over churches
In November,
Aftonbladet interviewed imam Abd al Haqq Kielan in Eskilstuna and he was clear about what mosque financiers in the Gulf states particularly want.
The mosque in Gävle is no exception. A simple Google search shows how several churches across the country have been turned into mosques. Imam Kielan is not very surprised at the development and points out that it looks the same in the rest of Europe.
- Muslims buy churches everywhere in Europe now. One has a declining number of visitors and the other has an increasing, simply, Kielan told
SVT in 2012.
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It is a phenomenon that is clearly visible in the UK. On YouTube, there are several videos showing how churches are turned into mosques:
As you can see the christians are a dying breed and we will burn those churches and hang those priests very soon. The organisation is already in place and it will be done with the help of muslims. Muslims will help us end the christians and the jews and then we have decided to divide the world into two. One for muslims and one for us white nationalists who will live under a new flag free from opression.