Religion
From the 2000 census, 2,390 or 55.6% are Roman Catholic, while 1,079 or 25.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there are 2 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith, there are 68 individuals (or about 1.58% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 119 individuals (or about 2.77% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There is 1 individual who is Jewish, and 244 (or about 5.68% of the population) who are Islamic. There are 11 individuals (or about 0.26% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 258 (or about 6.00% of the population) belong to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 125 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) did not answer the question.
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“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
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