A recent survey indicates that for the first time ever, Britain is more secular than religious. Fifty-one percent of those polled stated that they have no religion at all, a very slim majority (and admittedly one that falls within the margin of error on these things), but one that certainly rebuts naysayers who feel that atheists exist in such small numbers that they are doomed to irrelevance. This is obviously good news to anyone who places rationality and knowledge above faith and ignorance.
Is it possible that while the United States is far behind, we might one day find similar poll numbers here? Britain, after all, doesn't have the separation of church and state written into its very fabric of government like the US does.
Obviously, we have a long way to go, but this does bring some measure of hope that one day we might live to see a saner, more rational society.
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