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purplecthulhu at 10:18am on 26/02/2004
purplecthulhu at 10:18am on 26/02/2004According to the BBC, the UK is amongst the most secular of nations, with fewer than half the population believing in god (I'm not sure how they get that number from the statistics in the article though).
This is based on extensive polling in 10 countries, but the comparisons between rich and poor, and between 'european' countries (apart from the UK, Russian and Israel were the only coutries polled that could be classified as such) and the US are quite stark. Without the US, it could be argued that poverty breeds belief in god. I wonder how the large disparities in wealth in the US affect this?
It would have been interesting to see what more EU countries are like on this. Is the UK more or less religious than France, Germany and the Netherlands, for example?
Read more here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/3518375.stm
This is based on extensive polling in 10 countries, but the comparisons between rich and poor, and between 'european' countries (apart from the UK, Russian and Israel were the only coutries polled that could be classified as such) and the US are quite stark. Without the US, it could be argued that poverty breeds belief in god. I wonder how the large disparities in wealth in the US affect this?
It would have been interesting to see what more EU countries are like on this. Is the UK more or less religious than France, Germany and the Netherlands, for example?
Read more here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/3518375.stm