Norway’s Largest Church Now Allows People to Opt Out Online, and Thousands Have Already Done It

Norway is one of those countries where religion is supported by taxpayers, but that’s been changing as more citizens become wise to the fact that they don’t need to prop up churches they don’t even really belong to.

Last year, we learned that the Catholic Church owed the Norwegian government more than $5 million for “fraudulently registering thousands of people on its membership lists.” And more than 11,000 people resigned from the Catholic Church after a new app made it ridiculously simple for them to remove themselves from the membership rolls.

The exodus became even more drastic this past week after the nation’s evangelical Lutheran Church launched a website to make it easier to track members — a site that also allowed them to opt out of the Church altogether:...
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