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‘The majority of Britons who do attend Church are woman, and even then only 3% go to church regularly.’

Do you have any facts to back up that absurd claim? According to the World Values Survey shown on the well-respected Nationmaster.com, 27% of Britons attend church at least once a week.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/rel_chu_att-religion-church-attendance

‘That and to be honest about it, Euros are generally much more cynical then Americans, the UK is no exception.’

One mans cynicism is another man realism! :-)

The UK seems to be awashin Knights...Jedi Knights that is:

“About sixteen per cent of the UK population stated that they had no religion. This category included agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi Knight.”3 “At the time the Census was carried out, there was an internet campaign that encouraged people to answer the religion question “Jedi Knight”. The number of people who stated Jedi was 390,000 (0.7 per cent of the population).”4 An urban myth developed and some people believed that this many votes would make Jedi an official religion, however this is not true.

“Just over 390,000 of the 52,000,000 people in England and Wales wrote in ‘Jedi’ on their census form. The ‘Jedi’ response was most popular in Brighton and Hove, with 2.6 per cent of Census respondents quoting it, followed by Oxford (2.0 per cent), Wandsworth (1.9), Cambridge (1.9), Southampton (1.8) and Lambeth (1.8).

So it would seem that “confirmation” has been traded for “padwan” in the UK......

Church attendance:

National Attendance
1979 12% [17] -0.20/year
1989 10% [17] -0.28/year
1998 07.5% [13, 14] -0.17/year
2005 06.3% [13]

http://www.vexen.co.uk/UK/religion.html

Now before the idea that low church attendance is the be all and end all of societal problems be advanced, it should be noted that Socialization of the UK, along with a “Top down” sort of outlook are just as important factors IMO.

For me, there is not much difference in welfare and everyman for themselves in the course of a nation’s decline socially if not economically, a country can be prosperous but souless easily. And that loss of “centre” is what leads to the idea that the UK is drowning in immigrants.

And one man’s cynicism is another man’s realism is a great example of cynicism, with no dominant view point, that is very true, when “Work hard and follow the rules and you and your family will do fine” starts to not work, then cynicism will follow.

The UK remains very prosperous on paper, why isn’t it felt throughout the region? Spoiled citizens or actual lack of a chance to “make it” even if they aren’t a PhD?