Is the clock ticking on Dutch Christianity?

[Newswire]

"Surely, human rights, women's rights, gay rights, the rejection of racism and colonialism have as much--if not even more--to do with secular philosophies as they do with Christianity."

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[Haener]

Even though this article is a little dated (2 years ago) it is basically right.

With the possible exception of deism, theism is a minority position in the Netherlands. Whatever strongholds the church still has they are under pressure.

And indeed, concepts like abolitionism, emancipation, women's suffrage, though by now embraced by most christian parties, certainly do not find their origin within christian politics. It is a little irritating when the main christian party somehow implicitly takes credit for such concepts, as if they are intermittently intertwined with their political-philosophical point of view.

They are not.

Hell, we (as in the liberals over here) had to exchange (that is, with the christian politicians) women's suffrage for state funding of religious schools, the (in)famous article 23 of our constitution.