Hungary: 2022 census shows Christians are now a minority, Catholic Church in particular lost half of its adherents over the past 20 years

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1. [Census data, in Hungarian](https://nepszamlalas2022.ksh.hu/adatbazis/#/table/WBS003/N4IgFgpghgJiBcBtEAVAkgWQKIH0AKWASmgPIAiIAugDQgDOAljBAsilgDI4DKAWjgEEyAlFVp0IAYwAuDAPYA7VjRAAzBgBtpEAE50EoANYMFceCAxQADiFoQF0nQwj6kbIgFUuAcSwkArLZGJmYg3BDStiAAblAaAK4urCAAEh5UAL407lx8gsKi1MGmCGERUbEJSUggAGoCHBwC3Di1AIxRhLgAwp24hL20XTjegyDD3QJ9OBzpQ7gkYxMU8zgAUtOLK-O4AHIkhTs4u1OUWWcZQA)

   [Article in English about the census](https://telex.hu/english/2023/09/27/number-of-muslims-in-hungary-doubled-in-twenty-years-while-number-of-catholics-halved)

   Catholics went from 5,3 million in 2001, 3,7 million in 2011 to 2,6 million in 2022, but all other major denominations suffered loss of followers.

   While we cannot declare that majority of country is irreligious (since non-respondents could be believers in their own way), it is decidedly majority non-adherent. It should be noted that the census form listed atheism as a religion, and there was no agnostic option whatsoever, which decision was highly criticized and thus likely contributed to the large group of “prefer not to say”.

2. It’s hard to take the words of an organization, that periodically enters the public eye for raping children, very seriously. Maybe the first few times you wince, but shrug it off, but a few decades of it nonstop?

   Who wouldn’t at least lose their faith in that institution?

3. I honestly wasn’t expecting this from such a conservative country like Hungary

4. I feel like this data doesn’t mean much when 40% prefer not to say.

5. And they still have a conservative government dictating traditionalism. Atheism in Eastern Europe is not a flex like some want to act like. Western Europe is more liberal and open mind regardless of religion.

6. This data is kinda useless if 40% prefer not to say

7. Friendship with God ended, now my best friend is Orban.