Err... don't wish to be pedantic, but can you revise that 3 billion to a figure a wee bit lower?

You see, The Church of England says in their annual report last year, (a relative works for his diocese and sent me a copy out of devilment...) that 92% of the English population are Christian.

Don't want to shit on their iced cake here, but I assume they include everybody who is christened? Everybody who doesn't state any other religion? You see, I have the sneaking feeling that the vast majority of the population, who are not anti religion, but never give religion a second thought, are included in their delusional figures. I had my two sons baptised but that is because a christening is a family affair, a tradition. It doesn't mean parents buy into non rational nonsense.

Not ranting against them, just pointing out that whilst I don't know how many English citizens are religious, even Church of England, I do know that less than 1% attend a church so howsabout either side in this stop claiming indifferent people as their own?

I am not an atheist for the simple reason that atheism seems to considered a stance and I would prefer to be classed as indifferent to cults I am not a member of. So irreligious is a far better stance than atheist.

(That said, when something affects me, such as shops having limited hours on a Sunday or Bishops being able to vote in our upper house for the reason of being a Bishop alone, then I feel entitled to question the logic of society allowing superstition to dictate things.)

Oh, and before anybody points out my hypocrisy here, YES I signed up to The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, mainly to wind people up, but secretly because I am a Pastafarian!