No and no as far as religious practice goes. I was librul atheist till my late 20s, but as life experience and my knowledge of religions increased, i'v started to become more and more sympathetic to faith in God and hostile to mass indoctrination of atheism that permeats current (((West))).
He could be croatian jew. I have two long time internet forum guys here in Latvia, who obviously speak latvian and are well integrated and don't show signs of being of another etnicity, but after more than 15teen years of communicating with them, i only recently discovered that they're both jews.
They are absolute talmudic caricatures in how far they go to hate other religions, especially Christianity. They would literally boil Jesus Christ in bowl of feces, as Talmud prescribes, if they could.
At the same time they pretend to be latvians, whenever possible. Makes your noggin joggin'.
What the actual fuck with me being a Jew, insane...
About you, it makes more sense, you had some "eye opening" or whatever and you turned closer to God and religion and majority of people close to religion are extremely against western ideas, since the west gave up from the religion and anyone is free to do whatever they want (now, you'll jump that the governments are controlling us with COVID, yet religion is doing the same for 2000+ years: controlling the masses, and giving them a meaning of life for people who can't find the meaning otherwise.)
About Gicians comment how 90% of people in my country are religious, lol.
It's connected with the war in Yugoslavia.
In Yugoslavia, religion was more or less forbidden and no one went to church.
Then after the war, being suddenly religious was something like "a beginner's starter pack" if you wanted to say: I am a Croat, I hate Serbia.
It was like a thing in our "tribe", to be different than Serbia, whom we hated.
The same as how Ukraine is now moving their Christmas to the 25th of December, in a symbolic way, just to say: we are not Russia.
This religious "starter pack" since the 1991 included:
I love Croatia
I hate Serbia
I am religious
And everyone jumped on that ship, otherwise you were in problems.
Half of my family suddenly started to be religious after 1991'.
And since then, the leading right-wing party in Croatia, which more or less rules the country since then, started revisionism in books in schools and similar, and suddenly this "starter pack" became accepted and more or less, among average Croat, if someone asks you if you are religious, you have to say yes, since otherwise, someone will accuse of you being a Serb (or a Jew, lol, in this case) and that you don't like your country.
It is also connected with a corruptcy. Since, if you want to get a job, you need to be a member of a leading right wing party, and then you need to act according to that "starter's pack": I hate Serbs, I love my country, I am very religious.
Till 1991', you needed to be a part of a communist party to get a job and 80-90% of people were members of it to get jobs and homes.
Today, right wing party is doing the same as a communist party in Yugoslavia: you need to be a member.
The only difference is, they have changed the description and some ideologic ideas: they added religion in there ideas, while majority of other things are the same, they just changed the logo colors of their "shirts".
They act exactly in the same way as a communist party regarding how to control the country, share propaganda and revisionism of history, and grow corruptcy and stay as a ruler forever due to corruptcy and majority of population have to be your member in order to get the job.
Literally, they can't lose the elections anymore.
Stats from 2022' say:
90% of people said that they are religious, but...
Only 69% believe in God
Only 17% are hard core religious people, who live according to religious rules/holly books and go to church
30% do believe in God, but they think that religious rules are shit and just invented, so they don't apply them
Only 1% of people go to church every day
And as always in Western-ish Europe:
-- there is more religious people among elderly and less against younger ones
-- among highly educated people, 64% are some of sort of religious people
-- while among poorly educated (as always), 85% of people are religious
-- also, the highest number of religious people live in villages with less than 1000 people
-- while in bigger cities, there is far less religious people
If you analyze those numbers, similar applies to the World's population and trends:
-- the richer the country is (like Usa or Western Europe): less people are religious and people are moving away from religions
-- the poorer country is like Middle East or eastern and central Asia: you have more religious people
-- the more educated people are: they are moving away from religion
-- the less educated an average person in a country is: you have more religious and especially religious extremists asking for extreme rules written 1000-2000 years ago