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Originally Posted by MissCreativeSpirit
Where do those statistics come from please? That only 35% of Europeans believe in God!
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I think asking if people believe in God or not is not the best way to measure secularism, because "God" can mean different things to different people.
But it's clear for anyone who has observed both that Europe, particularly Northern Europe, is much more secular than USA is, for one example the school I went to had 100 kids, to my knowledge 5 of them were from Christian families. Church going rate in my country is something like 3-4%, meaning that 3-4% of people go to church monthly or weekly.
It's not as much about committed atheism/agnosticism as it's about just not paying any attention to religion and religion enjoying very little public status. In Finland, if you tell to people, particularly young people, that you go to church, they'll look at you like it's a wierd, old fashioned thing to do.