Religion
As I already said in my tip for the celebrating of name days in Bulgaria, the majority of the Bulgarians claim to be Orthodox Christians. This is proven by the official statistics showing the following distribution (as per the CIA World factbook):- Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, - Muslim 12.2%, - other Christian 1.2%, - other 4ut some of these people claiming to be Orthodox Christians haven’t set their foot in a church for the last couple of months or even years - actually I guess not more than 60% out of these 82.6% are true Orthodox Christians, the rest are more or less atheists. The explanation I have for myself is a bit odd and probably not everybody would agree with it but here it is: During the time of the communist regime people were pushed to be atheists. After all, religion (Christian or Muslim, religion as a whole) what proclaimed as opium for the masses. People who cared for their...
