Source: Iceland Monitor
The Zuist society, founded in 2016 now wish to build a temple in Reykjavik. Leader Águst Arnar Ágústsson says it’s been his dream to build a temple since the religion was founded.
The Zuist society came to media attention when a report in 2016 showed that over three thousand Icelanders had joined the Zuist religion. This was probably mostly due to the fact that they promised to anyone over the age of 16 registering with the religion ( and thus unregistering from the National Church of Iceland) would get a refund for fees called parish fees.
The society opened for new applications again in December. Some mystery has surrounded whether people actually got refunded or not as the society will not disclose any such figures.
Zuism is based on the worship of the ancient Sumeran gods. The people of Sumer were the first literate civilization of ancient Mesapotamia. The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, Enki, the god of water and human culture, Ninhursaq, the goddess of fertility and the earth, Utu, the god of the sun and justice, and his father Nanna, the god of the moon.
Categories: Accepting Islam, Europe, Iceland, Religion, The Muslim Times
Yes, quite a lot of people leave Christian Churches in Europe in order to be able to stop paying church tax also.