Almost half of adults didn't know that the story of Noah's Ark was in the Bible

[3bunnies]

According to this news story. I know that this sample will include people from other cultures and I guess that my knowledge of their religions isn't perfect, but when 65% of the population say that they are Christian I find it surprising.

Many people confused plot lines from Harry Potter as being in the Bible and a third of children (8+) didn't know that the nativity was in the Bible and had never heard of the crucifixion.

Sorry my post wasn't very clear and had grammatical errors too! What I mean is that sometimes people say 'oh I don't go to church or anything but I wouldn't want to upset a God if there is a God so I won't actually say that I am not a Christian'. They haven't actually looked at any of the religions and decided consciously one way or another but they still say that they are Christian. I have much more respect for someone who has examined the evidence and made a decision either way or for someone who says that they don't have a religion than for someone who says that they are Christian but actually never goes to church and knows nothing about it.

I would rather that my dc went to a school with a mixture of people. For secondary school our nearest 5 state schools are all selective by sex, academic performance or religion.

3bunnies - yes... a half-baked Pascal's Wager isn't a respectable position.

3bunnies - yes, I'd go along with that. My school was a private school in south london and had a very broad mix of ethnicities and religions. We covered various religions and beliefs to some degree in RS (islam, taoism, buddhism, humanism) although the majority of it related to Christianity/Judaism as you might expect.

On that note, which religions did you examine and reject before deciding upon Christianity?

I always quite fancied Judaism but wouldn't want to go through the conversion process, though worse for men. Never really went for polytheism though - hard enough with one God let alone many.