(January 19, 2015 at 8:50 pm)NuclearJaguar Wrote: Are that many British people still religious though?
I mean, having grown up in the UK, I'd say probably not. If you go up to any random 18-24 year old British person in the street and ask "do you go to church regularly?" I would bet only a vanishingly small amount would actually say "yes". I think the UK is "Christian" in name only these days. In fact I think it sounds weird when I hear British accents having heated debates about religion like Americans do.
It's only really with minority religions in the UK (especially Catholicism, Islam and Judaism) that I've seen any kind of real commitment too. The Protestant Church seems dead.
It definitely isn't dead, I'm about to marry into a family with one-half being happy clapping, God bothering protestants.
They're very much in a minority in the major towns and cities, but get yourself out to the country and they're still about.
I think the age and history of a country matters a lot here, we've had hundreds of years of religious bollocks. From Paganism, to the Romans bringing stories of JC, the reformation, wars in Scotland and Ireland......it has taken a long old time, but religion just seems to have dwindled into insignificance for most.
The hope is the same happens elsewhere.
