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To: LindyBill who wrote (92381)	12/26/2004 10:52:17 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

I wonder how much of the difference in people admitting agnosticism between the US and Britain is cultural. By that I mean, less stigma is involved in Britain. Religion in the UK AMERICAN FUTURE By Marc Schulman on Religion According to a report in The Telegraph (UK), As our YouGov survey reveals today, the number of Britons who say they believe in God has nearly halved since 1968, from 77 to 44 per cent; meanwhile, the proportion prepared to admit that they do not believe in God - once a shocking proposition, to be confessed sotto voce - has more than trebled, from 11 to 44 per cent. As our poll shows, most unbelievers are not dogmatic in their unbelief. We are becoming a nation of shoulder-shrugging agnostics who, instead of thinking systematically about religion, react to tragedy by improvising rituals with the nearest objects to hand, such as flowers or teddy bears. No such decline has taken place in America. This divergence makes me concerned about the sustainability of the "special relationship.