Apr

An Atheist Lot The Aussies

Now, this surprised me a little. I knew that Australia was a secular country (regardless of what some of the fundies try and tell us) but I wasn’t prepared for a startling result like this and take a look how many people cast their vote. I’d have to assume that the SMH would have had some kind of safeguards in place to prevent those naughty extreme atheists from having their say more than once.

In a reader poll held by the Sydney Morning Herald who asked this question: Would the world be better off without religion?

The results were:
Yes - 81%
No - 19%
Total Votes: 9311

Reference : Sydney Morning Herald Poll Results page. Scroll down a bit and look for the ‘IQ2 Would the world be better off without religion? results.

Now, that is amazing isn’t it? I believe it shows what most people really think about religion and although they may well answer the same question if asked face to face differently, when they can anonymously provide their true position on the subject they don’t hold back!

I’d like to see the census results if they could be done completely anonymously too. I would bet my bottom dollar that you wouldn’t see half as many ‘C of E’ and ‘Anglican’ etc answers then and the number who put down ‘No religion’ would be far, far greater!

Good on ya Aussies. I just KNEW that I came to live here for a good reason…

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