[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructs inpublic!Filmateleven.

[Charlie Stross]

On 8 Jun 2005, at 18:42, Charlie Stross wrote:
> It gets better. According to Monday's Herald, 39.5% of the population 
> are hard atheists (no religion, period), and of the rest, only 60% 
> believe in God -- the rest just have a numinous vague sense of 
> something out there. The proportion attending church on a regular 
> basis -- monthly or more often -- is down around 10%.

Clarification, the "60% believe in God" applies to the 60% of the 
population who do not expressly deny having any religion. Meaning it's 
more like 40% of the total who believe in God at all.

Politicians who come on heavy with the prayer thing in Scotland 
actually *lose* votes because ordinary people think they're nutters.


-- Charlie