Brits - Isn't it great that we live in a largley atheistic country?

Question

Pope Sixtus, grow up, - the gameshow was invented in the US, as was most mass culture we have today. Your argument is naive and blinkered.

Dee, I said Britain is an Atheistic country, I did NOT say we weren't afraid of religious nutters

Answer 1

I'd consider myself an atheist living in a largely secular country and, yes, this is a good thing. Just look at the USA - a modern western country in which many schools don't agree with teaching evolution but would rather preach creationism to it's youngsters. Think yourself lucky you and your children will be given the opportunity to explore all avenues and make up your own mind.

Answer 2

What's more important is that its a secular nation - I'm as hardcore an atheist as anybody - but lets not become what we dislike about religion! People should be free to worship Jehovah or Allah or the Invisible Pink Unicorn or the FSM without the state intervening!

The very best way to undermine religion would be a better education system - if we tried to make ours the best in the world then that would do a lot as tests continually show an inverse correlation between intelligence/education and religion. Other posters are correct, the dumbing down of the mass media could lead to all kinds of horrors and although many of the population are too sophisticated to be impressed by the average evangelist a lot of it is merely isolation. We must be vigilant.

Answer 3

Well, you should thank the Church of England for that. They've done a great job over the years showing themselves to have no moral backbone and being totally irrelevant to the lives of most English people. Worryingly Islam seems to have more influence in Britain now than any other faith or secularism.

Answer 4

There was a poll conducted on Yahoo a coupla years back which was a straight yes/no "Do you believe in god" (no maybe, no perhaps, no I'll think about it) The result was 72% no.

Not representative, because by definition only people who are computer literate and affluent enough to be here would even be aware of the question.

A bit like the questions on sky news like "should we Nuke N. Korea?" only satellite/cable subscribers can vote.

BUT:
In the last UK Census - do you know what was found to be the 4th largest religion in Egnland&Wales?

Jedi (look it up)

Answer 5

I don't think most people think about it in enough depth to call themselves truly atheistic, to be honest. It's a very secular country though. What you're saying is that there is very little influcence from the more bigoted sections of the religious communities - and yeah, that's great.

Remember though, some of these loons tried to defend the right to discriminate (claiming THEY were being discriminated against!) last night, in trying to remove the anti-homophobia amendment from legislation (they lost, ha ha). And other loons have, er, blown themselves to smithereens on our underground. But mostly it's better the way we are.

Answer 6

Your new religion is reality TV game shows designed to show that your God is group dynamics. Thats what attracts you to mass sports, mass entertainment and mass holidays; they're different masses, that's all but all done en-masse.
That's what you guys live for, getting on in the group, based on whatever the group subscribes to. It's not about soccer, sex, music TV or some hot spot; it's about your inability to be at one with yourself - to find self definition. You desperately need feedback and affirmation like some errand school boy - hence your gittish question.
And yet like Big Brother it only serves to dumb down and promote Machiavellian types and sycophants. In time the UK will be ripe for conversion to Islam - mark my words.
Perhaps you should worship Richard Dawkins ring - you'd like that. Something to worship; some way to get round the need to address you...
Enjoy the delusion while it lasts the real reality will be catching up soon.

Answer 7

atheistic?!

that's why you printed the DA Vince code book but not the cartoons of the Muslims prophet. Britain is under Islamic rule.

if it didn't offend 75% of you, why didn't the British newspapers print it?

If your so atheist why did you get bombed?
if your so atheist why is Islam the fastest growing religion in the UK? with more mosques being built all the time.

Answer 8

Its great that it is a largely SECULAR country, but yes it is also pretty good that the majority of the populace is at least agnostic, it shows how little purchse the church has, and yes thats a good thing.

Answer 9

Here's one. The Church disagrees with incest, saying it's evil, but Adam and Eve were (apparently) the first two humans. Science tells us that to reproduce we need to have sex. Adam and Eve were not related, but their kids would have all have been brothers and sisters. According to the bible we wouldn't exist without incest, but it's still evil. Secondly why do Christians worship the Arabic king of the Jews, who has a Mexican name and links to Islam? (I once read an Islamic document referring to Jesus, prophet of Muhammed!!) In short, the Bible (and its religion) makes no logical sense whatsoever.

Answer 10

Not sure it's atheist, but there are a lot of agnostics out there. Most people however probably still describe themselves as having some sort of faith, hence most wedding and funeral services are basically religious.