I'm with theleveller on this one. Here in the UK, we are fed the idea that USA is a much more God fearing scripture dependent nation than ourselves. Interestingly of course, the USA is supposedly a secular legislative system whilst we have the Anglican church embedded in our system, with The Queen the head of the Church.

Surveys usually bear out the hypothesis on which they were formed. So become self fulfilling prophesies. I wouldn't look too far into them myself. My view would be that those claiming to be atheist who seem to know more certainly can be seen as having had religion thrust down their throats when younger and therefore make a rational decision based on having thought about it. For an increasing portion of the population, they have never had any contact with religion other than the door knockers who get the same reaction as double glazing salesmen. For those, religion really is somebody else's problem...

My mother in law is a rather devout Christian. I am amused that in coming to terms with my lack of interest (and her daughter's but she glosses over that) she is interested in "where it all went wrong."   I hold no malice here, but rather think it is more a case of "where it went right." These people genuinely think that living without an imaginary friend is to be pitied. Then they get confused when confronted with "aggressive secularism" as one guest to our country used the term the other week...