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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (27459)2/2/2004 6:55:42 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 793687
 
That may have something to do with the fact that most Christians in the UK are less than evangelical. I saw some fascinating statistics about the differences (religious and political) between the UK and the US. We have so many evangelicals here in the US that there is a good base of consumers for Christian manifestation stories- and the news is in part economically driven by the desires of its readership.
So what you may be seeing, rather than animosity to Christianity, may simply be the heavy hand of capitalism (or the invisible hand, if you prefer).

Look at this link- I think it has less to do with insensitivity in the media, than with the general milieu of the culture in which media grow, and how the people of a region approach their own religion. Hard to imagine a bunch of Englishman speaking in tongues, for example- except perhaps at a soccer match- the true religion in England.

religioustolerance.org

Specifically, and I use this as a representative example:

Belief in creation science seems to be largely a U.S. phenomenon. A British survey of 103 Roman Catholic priests, Anglican bishops and Protestant ministers/pastors showed that:

97% do not believe the world was created in six days.
80% do not believe in the existence of Adam and Eve. 4
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