(RNS) The survey finds many Christians -- and unbelievers, too -- will exaggerate about attending worship in live phone interviews. However, when asked in an anonymous online questionnaire, people will answer more realistically.
Last month I debated South Dakota law professor Patrick Garry concerning the Supreme Court case Greece v. Galloway where two residents of Greece, New York (Susan Galloway, who is Jewish, and atheist Linda Stephens) objected to the practice of city supervisor John Auberger replacing the a moment of silence at the board’s meeting with invocation prayers.
I’m writing this a few weeks after the original discussion of the question took place. I'm also writing this soon after the death of Pete Seeger, who was an atheist the last time I heard him talk live, about 25 years ago.
For some years the International Humanist and Ethical Union has compiled an annual Freedom of Thought Report, and their 2013 edition surveyed 194 countries, ranking them by how tolerant they are of nonbelievers.