BBC News : What the Wolrd thinks of God
Have a look at the link above. It's very interesting. The surveys speaks for itself.
The UK is the only European country in the survey, and surely represents a good average, with more religious nations like Spain, and less religious ones like France. Anyway, the gap between UK and US is quite huge.
Below, we can see that only 21% of Brits regularly attend religious service (that seems much higher than EU average, IMO), while about 55% of Americans do, which is more than Indians (!).
Scarily enough, more than 90% of the mostly Muslim Nigerians would die for their faith. More than 70% of Americans also would while only 19% of Britons would be foolish enough.
The last poll has come as a surprise for me. The UK of course topranks the list of those who believe that the world would be a safer place without religion with 29%. But that's a big gap to the next country (Mexico, 15%), and interestingly, the US are last but one, with a mere 5% of surveyed people thinking so. That surely explains why so many people supported President Bush's "crusade" against Afghanisthan and Iraq, as they believe they are fighting for peace in the world, because of course their religion is the right one.
Have a look at the link above. It's very interesting. The surveys speaks for itself.
The UK is the only European country in the survey, and surely represents a good average, with more religious nations like Spain, and less religious ones like France. Anyway, the gap between UK and US is quite huge.
Below, we can see that only 21% of Brits regularly attend religious service (that seems much higher than EU average, IMO), while about 55% of Americans do, which is more than Indians (!).
Scarily enough, more than 90% of the mostly Muslim Nigerians would die for their faith. More than 70% of Americans also would while only 19% of Britons would be foolish enough.
The last poll has come as a surprise for me. The UK of course topranks the list of those who believe that the world would be a safer place without religion with 29%. But that's a big gap to the next country (Mexico, 15%), and interestingly, the US are last but one, with a mere 5% of surveyed people thinking so. That surely explains why so many people supported President Bush's "crusade" against Afghanisthan and Iraq, as they believe they are fighting for peace in the world, because of course their religion is the right one.
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