ICR Sues Texas

He might not like it. A poll in 2001 asked "Do you believe in God or a supreme being".The results:Yes: 38%
I don't know: 28%
No: 34%The same question in the U.S. gets 90% Yes.Two thirds of teenagers here do not believe in God, and 5% of the population are weekly churchgoers.The religious education national curriculum is a course on the world's religions (what you suggested above).Lots of religious schools are financed by the state, though, which would be impossible in the U.S., and is controversial here.Mostly, he'd find himself surrounded by apatheists who don't like preachy types.How many U.K creationists have you noticed on this board?So, you can keep him, thankyou very much. Edited by bluegenes, : No reason given.

No, it's not a big enough issue, and not one that really runs on left/right/centre political lines. Groups like secular humanists campaign for it, and individuals, like R. Dawkins, needless to say.As for the public, about 85% think that children from all the different religions should be educated together. You're welcome! Actually, the census in which lots of people put Jedi as a joke (there was an internet campaign) was a couple of years before the survey I mentioned.In that census, 70% described themselves as Christians. What people do is fill in whatever religion their family uses for weddings and funerals, regardless of what they actually believe.So, work it out, and we have a lot of cultural Christians who don't really believe in God!Not only that, half the country cannot even name one of the four gospel writers!!!!!And, on one survey with the question "why do Christians celebrate Easter", more than half either stated that they didn't know or got the answer wrong!That's what I mean by a nation of apatheists. Most people just aren't really interested in religion, and probably don't have any fixed beliefs.Go across the channel, and the French are even less religious than we are, unless you count food as a religion.As for the Swedes, they're a nation of baby eaters.