Costa Rica

Costa Rica is Catholic as a country. The dominant religious context is: Catholic-majority (~52%) with growing evangelical minority (~25%) and a comparatively secular urban culture.

Catholic deconstruction in Costa Rica usually has a family-and-ritual shape rather than a doctrinal one. Many of you stopped practicing years ago and are now navigating around the baptisms, first communions, weddings, and funerals that the family still treats as load-bearing. The pillar page on Catholicism, the page on the guilt that lingers, and the page on funerals and weddings will probably fit closely.

Leaving in Costa Rica mostly costs you on a family scale rather than a community or legal scale. The conversations are real and sometimes painful, but the wider society is not configured to punish unbelief.