Wednesday, March 28, 2007

"Watching the English" on religion

i've just finished reading this book, which i'll tell you more about later. for now, this part made me laugh. it's about why 60% of English people answer 'yes' when asked if they believe in god:

"- they are 'not particularly religious but sort of believe in Something';
- they are vaguely willing to accept that there might be a God, so saying 'no' would be a bit too emphatic;
- they would quite like to think that there is a God, even though on the whole it seems rather unlikely;
- they don't really know but might as well give Him the benefit of the doubt;
- they haven't really thought about it much to be honest, but yeah, sure, whatever."
(Fox, K., 2004, p355)

i'm sure it's the same for quite a lot of people out there, not just the English, but still, it's very funny to see it written down like that.

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