It's a habit most people above a certain age seem to have, and although I never quantified it at work, I meant to.
We sometimes got students requesting to stay with either "A christian family" or a family of a particular denomination (ie, there's). So we asked a question along the lines of "if you are a member of a particular faith please tell us so we can match students of the same faith with you". A lot of families said they were CofE. I knew this was bollocks, as I knew a lot of them never went to church (we knew the ones that did for the most part).
So the next year I changed it to "if you regularly attend a place of worship, please state". Number of people ticking that box went right down. My mum says she's Christian, but goes to church for Christmas eve, weddings and funerals.
My father is an agnostic of the Dawkins school, and refused to allow either of us to be Christened, muchto my grandmother's chagrin.
That's also partially it; if you're christened as a kid, you're a member of the faith, even if you don't actually believe. I'm rambling, aren't I. I'll stop.
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Date: 2006-Dec-23, Saturday 18:08 (UTC)We sometimes got students requesting to stay with either "A christian family" or a family of a particular denomination (ie, there's). So we asked a question along the lines of "if you are a member of a particular faith please tell us so we can match students of the same faith with you". A lot of families said they were CofE. I knew this was bollocks, as I knew a lot of them never went to church (we knew the ones that did for the most part).
So the next year I changed it to "if you regularly attend a place of worship, please state". Number of people ticking that box went right down. My mum says she's Christian, but goes to church for Christmas eve, weddings and funerals.
My father is an agnostic of the Dawkins school, and refused to allow either of us to be Christened, muchto my grandmother's chagrin.
That's also partially it; if you're christened as a kid, you're a member of the faith, even if you don't actually believe. I'm rambling, aren't I. I'll stop.