(January 27, 2016 at 4:57 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Once again the UK is a secular society. Politically you can call it a "Christian country" with the Royal Family and de facto state religion of Anglicanism. However, as a whole society we function as a secular country, where religion plays very little (if any) role in the everyday life of the average Briton. We are certainly more secular than The USA is, despite the American constitution itself being the most secular in the world. There's a difference between saying "we are a secular country" and actually being a secular country. The USA claims to be secular but isn't, while The UK claims not to be but it essentially is on a societal level.
The hardcore Christians of the UK are an incredibly small and fringe minority of white British people. In fact it's so rare to hear hardcore Christianity in a British accent that I double-take when I hear it.
Yep there is a difference between written law, and the behavior of those living under that law. America is supposed to be a secular country and is by law, but you wouldn't know that considering how much Christianity is pandered in politics.
It pisses me off how our right looks to the East and says "Look at those horrible Islamic theocracies" but have been doing everything to create a Christian version here.
