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Originally Posted by chris
No - faith is very much a part of life in the USA, for example, despite the material wealth and the lead that country has in many advanced areas of research and manufacture. On a world scale, faith is very much a current issue. Atheism, or various kinds of agnosticism, are very prevalent in 21st century UK, but we are more of an exception than the rule in this. It's easy for people engaging in this sort of debate to lose sight of that.
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Just picking up on this point: I'd say that that the situation in the UK is pretty much the norm for the Western world (with the US being a bit of an exception). It would be stretching the truth to say that the UK is an exception in the Western world.