Our society thinks of itself - in public at least - as a rationalistic, scientific, atheist (or at least agnostic) modern world . . .
It's a well-kept secret that we are actually a very religious society. In an AGB McNair survey carried out over the past few years, 55% of the English, 56% of Australians, 45% of New Zealanders and 34% of the French, with a massive 88% of those in the United States, agreed that sins could be forgiven through belief in Jesus.
Add to that the large numbers of Muslims and the growing ranks of believers in the vague claims of New Age spirituality, and we see a picture, not of spiritual abandonment as most people believe, but of a very religious society - albeit unfocussed and ill-educated. We are not a secular society.
