Religion
From the 2000 census, 2,279 or 20.7% were Roman Catholic, while 6,064 or 55.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 214 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.95% of the population), there were 23 individuals (or about 0.21% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 651 individuals (or about 5.92% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 10 individuals (or about 0.09% of the population) who were Jewish, and 387 (or about 3.52% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 52 individuals who were Buddhist, 125 individuals who were Hindu and 15 individuals who belonged to another church. 1,092 (or about 9.94% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 382 individuals (or about 3.48% of the population) did not answer the question.
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“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
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