No a lo primero. Sí a lo segundo. Islam y Revolución Francesa aparte, es un país mayoritariamente católico.
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Main article: Religion in France
Notre-Dame de Reims facade, gothic stone cathedral against blue sky
Notre-Dame de Reims is the Roman Catholic cathedral where the kings of France were crowned until 1825.[252]
France is a secular country, and freedom of religion is a constitutional right. French religious policy is based on the concept of laïcité, a strict separation of church and state under which public life is kept completely secular.
Catholicism has been the predominant religion in France for more than a millennium, though it is not as actively practised today as it was. Among the 47,000 religious buildings in France, 94% are Roman Catholic.[253] While in 1965, 81% of the French declared themselves to be Catholics, in 2009 this proportion was 64%. Moreover, while 27% of the French went to Mass once a week or more in 1952, only 5% did so in 2006.[254] The same survey found that Protestants accounted for 3% of the population, an increase from previous surveys, and 5% adhered to other religions, with the remaining 28% stating they had no religion.[254] Evangelical Protestantism may be the fastest growing religion in France.[255]
The French Revolution saw a radical shift in the status of the Catholic Church with the launch of a brutal campaign of de-Christianisation. After the back and forth of Catholic royal and secular republican governments over the 19th century, laïcité was established with the 1905 law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.[256]
According to a poll in January 2007,[257] only 5% of the French population attended church regularly (10% attend church services regularly among the respondents who did identify themselves as Catholics). The poll showed[258] 51% identified as being Catholics, 31% identified as being agnostics or atheists (another poll[259] sets the proportion of atheists equal to 27%), 10% identified as being from other religions or being without opinion, 4% identified as Muslim, 3% identified as Protestant, 1% identified as Buddhist, 1% identified as Jewish. Meanwhile, an independent estimate by the politologist Pierre Bréchon in 2009 concluded that the proportion of Catholics had fallen to 42% while the number of atheists and agnostics had risen to 50%.[260] According to Eurobarometer poll in 2012 Christianity is the largest religion in France accounting 60% of French citizens.[261] Catholics are the largest Christian group in France, accounting for 50% of French citizens,[261] while Protestants make up 8%, and Other Christian make up 2%. Non believer/Agnostic account 20%, Atheist account's 13%, and Muslim 6%.[261]"
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