Religion
78% of the population is Roman Catholic, which puts Vorarlberg in line with national Austrian average of (73.6%). The second largest religious denomination is Islam which has a share of 8.4%. 7,817 (or 2.2%) of Vorarlberg inhabitants are Protestant.
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“In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)