"Results of a poll carried out by Ipsos MORI for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) show that UK Christians are overwhelmingly secular in their attitudes on a wide range of issues.See lengthy press releases with lots more numbers here:
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The poll revealed that, on balance, significantly more Christians:
agree that the law should apply equally to everyone, regardless of their religion or belief (92% v 2%)
oppose religion having special influence on public policy (74% v 12%)
oppose the UK having an official state religion (46% v 32%)
oppose seats being reserved for Church of England bishops in the House of Lords (32% v 25%)
support the costs of hospital chaplains being met by the chaplain's religious organisation rather than from NHS budgets (39% v 32%)
want state-funded schools to teach knowledge about the world's main faiths even-handedly, rather than inculcate beliefs (57% v 15% solely Christian inculcation or 8% inculcate other school faith)
approve of sexual relations between two adults of the same sex than do not (46% v 29%)
approve of an adult woman's right to have an abortion within the legal time limit (62% v 20%)
support the legalisation of assisted suicide in the case of terminally ill adult patients with safeguards (59% v 21%)"
National Secular Society, 14 Feb 2012
RDFRS UK/Ipsos MORI Poll #1: How religious are UK Christians?
RDFRS UK/Ipsos MORI Poll #2: UK Christians oppose special influence for religion in public policy
Here are the full results of the poll (PDF)
See also:
"The kind of conservative religious aggression that claims 'anti-Christian discrimination' every time Christians are asked to treat others fairly and equally in the public square is a threatened response to the loss of top-down religion's social power. So is overbearing 'Christian nation' rhetoric, and the 'culture wars' that some hardline believers and non-believers may seek to launch and win against each other.
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"Likewise, Richard Dawkins may not be a subtle, unbiased or persuasive analyst of religion overall, but it would be entirely unhelpful for believers to dismiss this survey because they disagree with its commissioner in other respects. Its content evidently needs further and deeper analysis, alongside other data, than the initial response to it has allowed."
Ekklesia (Christian think-tank)
Daily Telegraph: Christians don't want religion to 'influence public life'
2 comments:
Because you’re ignorant on how to rise above the SintaxError of the world and one-outta-one shall croak sometime, somewhere soon, God has set-up this magnificent feature on the Way either Upstairs or downtown: the Warning. Everyone, me, too, living on this planet will see and feel the Warning lasting about 20ish minutes, showing U.S. a gorgeous picture of Heaven, Purgatory (depending whether our sins demand a greater punishment before being allowed into the Great Beyond), and dagnasty Hell. Remember, God doesn’t condemn; we condemn ourselves by our sinful lifestyles of unbelief. The Warning’s just a wake-up call. Don’t believe me? Guhroovy. You will soon. God bless you with discernment.
So I take it you're not among the majority of UK Christians?
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