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[Dirk Bruere]

Charlie Stross wrote:

>
> 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.
>
I think that's true of  Britain in general.
The idea of Blair praying alonside Bush sent a wave of unsease through 
the country, and this time it had little to do with Bush.

-- 
Dirk

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