Religion
From the 2000 census, 9,790 or 70.3% were Roman Catholic, while 1,381 or 9.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 163 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.17% of the population), there were 5 individuals (or about 0.04% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 335 individuals (or about 2.40% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 8 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who were Jewish, and 744 (or about 5.34% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 28 individuals who were Buddhist, 10 individuals who were Hindu and 15 individuals who belonged to another church. 888 (or about 6.37% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 725 individuals (or about 5.20% of the population) did not answer the question.
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“... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
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