New Study: Britains far less religious

[matt bors]

Interesting article. It's so damn short I can't not post it all. from the Mirror
link to article: http://tinyurl.com/6zfpy


ONLY 44% NOW BELIEVE IN GOD
Dec 28 2004 - By Sean Connolly

PEOPLE who believe God exists are now a minority in Britain, a survey claimed yesterday.

According to a poll by YouGov, just 44 per cent believe in God compared to 77 per cent in 1968.

A majority - 81 per cent - also believe the country is becoming more secular, with fewer people going to places of worship.

But among this percentage, 68 per cent of believers and 14 per cent of non-believers, regretted that society was becoming less religious.

Only a third of the 1,981 people who took part in the online survey believe in heaven and even fewer believe in the devil. Just a quarter think hell exists. Fewer than half, 43 per cent, believed their souls would outlast their bodily life.

Young people especially are significantly less religious than older generations, with more than a third saying they were agnostics or atheists.

Among middle-aged people and the elderly, the figure is far smaller, according to YouGov.

One in four who were asked whether or not they believed in God, replied "don't know".

[saltpoint]

1. And they have better rock groups, too.

[Warpy]

2. consider the Thatcher years

with the destruction of unions, the destruction of entire industries, and the declaration that many of the citizens had become "redundant." That's enough to destroy anybody's faith.

[Lenape85]

5. Amen to that

[stopbush]

3. The rest of the Western world evolves and moves forward

as we (USA) receed into the Dark Ages.

My brother just visited from Ohio. I asked him how he got here. "By plane," came the reply. "Do they still allow those in Ohio, what with teaching creationism, etc.? Don't planes depend on scientific theories to operate?" I opined.

My bad.

[matt bors]

4. hey I live in Ohio...

...and there are some of us here who believe the Earth is older than 5,000 years.

not many, but some.