Religion
From the 2000 census, 4,422 or 83.6% were Roman Catholic, while 184 or 3.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There are 483 individuals (or about 9.14% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), and 198 individuals (or about 3.75% of the population) did not answer the question.
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“Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.”
—Ernest Renan (1823–1892)
“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“They live together without king, without government, and each is his own master.... Beyond the fact that they have no church, no religion and are not idolaters, what more can I say? They live according to nature, and may be called Epicureans rather than Stoics.”
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