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Moreover, when asked to select a statement that best represented their opinion, 39.4 per cent of Icelanders said they believe in the existence of a benevolent god to whom one can pray, 19.2 per cent said that god must exist or else life would be meaningless, 19.7 per cent said that it is impossible to know whether or not god exists, 26.2 per cent said that no god exists which has not been created by man, 9.4 per cent said that god created the universe and presided over it and 9.7 per cent said that none of the aforementioned statements represented their opinion. [http://kirkjan.is/skjol/truarlif_islendinga_2004.pdf Trúarlíf Íslendinga: Viðhorfskönnun (2004), p. 30.] --[[Brúkari:Cessator|Cessator]] 20. jan 2010 kl. 21:37 (UTC)
:I was '''not''' referring to pagans ("hedningar"), although this is the same word, and of course neopaganism is of some interest as regards Iceland.
:I should explain the secondary Faroese use of "heiðin", as it has been explained to me. Since the various elves or gnomes or huldufólk or similar "nature spirits" supposedly were not baptised, they were often referred to as "heathens". This is often a way to refer to nature spirits in kvæði.
:Have you planned to add your English text ''supra'' to e.g. the article [[:en:Religion in Iceland]]?[[Brúkari:JoergenB|Jörgen B]] 21. jan 2010 kl. 16:25 (UTC)
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