Re: Not wounded pride.
"I dunno about that ... virtually everyone I know in the UK will claim to be CofE if asked"
Many people seem to be averse to answering "none of the above" to the question of religion. And many who never visit a church for a service in the lives will still get married in a church, have their children baptized and have a religious ceremony for their funeral. Primarily because "it's the done thing", although since the relaxation on the rules over where you can be married have been relaxed, churches have lost a fair chunk of the wedding business. When the choice was the council registry office or a church, most chose the church because they wanted some sort big ceremony because of the "fairy tale princess effect". Now they go off to fancy country hotels and the like which gives even more opportunity to "splash the cash" and prove they too can spend the first 10 years of married bliss paying off the bills for the bash!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
