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It's a lot to process, but I'll try to condense my reply.

All religions in Norway are treated equally. Yes, there are Tax exemptions and financial support, but all religions, faiths and even humanistic organizations get the same benefit. There is no special treatments.

We still have some remnants due to historical and cultural reasons, as is natural (public holidays based on christian traditions), but if you follow a different religion, you have the right to extra days off in addition to the traditional holidays.

The only constitutional remnant is that the King should mention "so help me God" in his oath. But the King is strictly symbolic.

Let's remember the context for my reply. You stated that you saw no reason why India could not have an official religion, because European countries (Norway) had Christianity as an official religion.

My point is what you want is actually a huge difference from what Norway has and it is misleading to include it and many other countries (like Sweden) as examples.

Personally, I would be concerned if religion was mixed with politics. History has shown that it often does not work well.

I am from Norway, and we don't have an official state religion, although christianity is the largest religion. We used to have a church that was administered by the government (statskirke), but was separated from the government. The King is no longer the (symbolic) leader of the church, although he is a member of it still.

Even when Norway had an official state church, other religions were free to practice and was even sponsored by the government. All religions and faiths get the same financial support based on the number of members.

There's even at least one Hindu temple that I know of that receive financial support on equal terms.

It makes me question your other "facts"