Nordisk Rikskringkasting : On the Religious Regulation Act

Ever since the glorious revolution that shapes the Nordic region for what one can generally call the Nordic Golden Age. It came to no surprise when the new Union of Nordic Socialist Republics saw themself having religious practice outlawed. Yet nobody would have expected the intervention by the central Nordic Council to preserve the buildings as museums. This decision came as a result following the passing of the Religious Regulation Act, a law that was proposed by the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

One core part of the Religious Regulation Act as we can see, is the gradual increase in supressings of religious practice. Additionally being the move to implement State - Agnosticism. As such, institutions like the Church of Norway, Church of Sweden, Church of Finland, Church of Denmark and Church of Iceland are all forcefully merged as parts of the Constitutional Church of the Nordic Realm. With all clergy members being informed to abandon religious practice and become Constitutional Missionaries, or be relocated to Bouvet Island. This being as plans are made to turn the remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean into an Arctic Gulag Prison.

(A picture taken of Bouvet Island)
 

An article exempts the Sami people living in the Union from this law. Arguing that the Sami people have a long cultural tradition which is in no threat towards the principles of the Nordic Union. As such, it would be counter - productive to yet again try and kill off this identity.

Instead the Sami people are granted cultural immunity against actions that are done by the Central Government, which is deemed threatening with the possibility to eradicate the Sami culture. With the Sami Parliament still in existence, the Central Government of the Republics are therefore aiming to have a deep dialogue with the Sami parliament. By this the Central Government of the Republic is aiming to see this upheld regarding actions that are involving Sami affairs.

(An aerial picture taken of the Sami Parliament )
 

We can now only waint to see how this will work over time. Though it is clear that religion will have a tough time to survive as the Central Government has clear aims to see its eradication in the Nordic realm. Yet with State - Agnosticism seeing itself taking more and more over, this new institutional change does not abolish the idea of spiritualism. It is rather clear that the Central - Government is rather aiming to see the growth of Humanism as a core value across the Nordic Member Republics. By simply replacing Christian values with Humanism.