Most Britons Believe Religion Does More Harm Than Good, Huff Post UK Poll Reveals [View all]

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[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#deedfc; color:#00000 0; margin-left:1em; border:1px dashed #7a7b7d ; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:4px 4px 4px #999999;"]A new poll done by the Huffington Post UK and research group Survation reveals that Brits believe religion does more harm than good:

One of these doors leads to religion…

More than half of Britons believe that religion does more harm than good, with less than a quarter believing faith is a force for good, the Huffington Post UK can reveal today.

Even 20% of British people who described themselves as being ‘very religious’ said religion was harmful to society, and a quarter of said atheists were more likely to be moral individuals than religious people.

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The eye-opening survey, that will reopen debate over the role and worth of religion to British society, found of the ‘non-religious’ people polled, more than 60% said they thought religion caused more problems than it solved.

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Go Brit Infidels!:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/11/04/most-britons-believe-religion-does-more-harm-than-good-huff-post-uk-poll-reveals/

and http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/03/religion-beyond-belief_n_6094442.html