A herd of Sheep

Norway is a monarchy. We have a history as a Christian country, our traditions and culture is largely based in Christianity, something which is also stated in our constitution. Our king, a nice guy but completly powerless and only functioning as a symbol, is also Christian. Despite all this we do have complete freedom of religion in a society growing more and more sekulare. Sounds all nice and open-minded right?

The only thing is that in Norway, despite the idea of full freedom of religion etc, our state religion and the traditions we have built our society on are being discriminated.
This is portrayed quite accuratly by a statement our king made a couple of days ago that he thinks Norway should have a Christian king. His phrasing might not have been too good, but fact is that this tiny, insignificant personal statement created a huge fuss among the growing sekulare movement in Norway, accusing the king for discrimination and favoring of his own religion etc. But why on earth should one not favour ones own religion? That`s the whole point of religion isn`t it, that you believe in something over something else. One cannot be a Muslim and say "but of course, Buddha is also equal to Allah, I don`t want to discriminate". It seems in sekulare circles that there is this growing fear of religious brainwash, because the moment someone mentiones Mohammed, Jesus, Ganesh, Jehova or anything related to religion, they are pin-pointed as preachers, discriminators and manipulators. But where has the belief in human beings gone? These people must have very little faith in our ability to think citically, or think at all, on issues presented to us. As if humans are helpless, all-consuming creatures that will turn to Islam as soon as someone whispers Allah, or Christianity when a completly powerless person as the king mentiones that he believes the king in a Christian country should be Christian.
The funny thing about this is that the king got complete support from the other religious communities in Norway, like the Jewish and the Islamic, who stated that it is a completly reasonable statement, while the sekulare community went bananas with accusations of no tolerance, discrimination etc. I think that the witch-hunt for religion in countries where the population is becoming more and more sekulare is a danger much greater than if someone were to say that they prefer one religion over another. To their information, we are not a herd of sheeps waiting to be brainwashed by whoever decides to share their oppinions, religious or not. In that case we would all be atheists, wouldn`t we, since that`s where the largest amount of propaganda comes from...