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RE: UK says atheists more moral than theists
January 19, 2015 at 5:21 pm
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RE: UK says atheists more moral than theists
January 19, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Fewer than 25% believe that religion is a force for good?
About 20% of the people who describe themselves as "Very Religious" believe that religion is harmful to society?
Very skeptical about this survey. Sample size, who did they ask, what were the questions asked and who interpreted the data?
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RE: UK says atheists more moral than theists
January 19, 2015 at 6:35 pm
This doesn't surprise me all that much. I'm amazed at how Christian America is, the UK is totally different. The Bible Belt in America strikes me as something out of a horror film, rather than something that could exist in a first world country. Although we have a cultural Christian background, for most people this just involves weddings and funerals in a Church. I'd be quite happy to tell anyone I was an Atheist, be it at work or in social situations and no one would bat an eyelid. It's not considered polite to mock religion in front of believers, but that's about it.
Christians here tend not to tell people as they are a bit embarrassed about their beliefs. Crucially they also don't tend to think of non Christians as any less moral.
If you talk about religion critically here, people would probably assume you were talking about Islam.
If you don't indocrinate people they don't become Christians. If you don't tell them that non Christians are evil, then everyone gets along ( and over time Christian numbers will fall).
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RE: UK says atheists more moral than theists
January 19, 2015 at 8:50 pm
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.
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