And of course there are those who need the vast majority to share their delusion so they don't look so silly themselves.

I have often wondered how a bloke with a doctorate etc feels whilst putting on a pointy hat and telling a few hundred gullible people what the big man is thinking and what his lad would have done.

If the majority are superstitious then why do twenty people walk out of our village church on a Sunday lunchtime whilst the pub next door is already bursting at the seams? Why has a church in Sheffield S6 recently shut through lack of business whilst just down the road from it, 26000 of us go to worship on a Saturday afternoon at the match?

Why does alcohol consumption not decease during lent? Why are so many people using January as a detox month when Lent would be more appropriate?

Why are Keith and others purposely confusing polls regarding spirituality with practicing Christian ? Why is he using the word atheist? After all, I'm not an atheist. My dog isn't an atheist. A new born baby isn't an atheist.

If you are saying the number of people who have thought about it and are not inclined to theism , you may be right.

The vast majority of people haven't thought about it as they don't give a toss about something that is irrelevant to them. That isn't atheism, that's irrelevance.

And so endeth the sermon.