LONDON,
February 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - A January poll of
thousands of people from ten countries featured Nigeria as the most
religious nation and Britain as the most secular.
The
survey, conducted by the independent opinion research company ICM for
the BBC What The World Thinks Of God program, included interviews with
people from the U.S., Britain, Israel, India, South Korea, Indonesia,
Nigeria, Russia, Mexico and Lebanon about their religious beliefs.
According
to the poll results, to be published in full Sunday, February 29, more
than 90% of Nigerians believe in God, pray regularly and are willing
to die for their belief.
Believing
in God, Indonesia and India followed with 97% and 92% respectively.
People
in Britain, Russia and South Korea showed lower levels of belief and
religious activities than in other countries.
All
Nigerians interviewed said they believe in God, followed by 91% in the
United States.
In
all, more than 80% of those polled said they believe in God or a
higher power and agreed that such a belief made people better human
beings.
Some
71% of the Lebanese and Americans interviewed were willing to die for
their God or their beliefs.
Around
95% of Nigerians and 67% Americans said they pray regularly, while 29%
of Israelis said they never prayed.
Most
Secular
The
survey featured Britain as one of the most secular nations in the
world, with levels of religious belief and activity far lower than in
almost all other countries.
It
reveals that only 46% of Britons polled said they have always believed
in God - 27% less than the average.
Furthermore
just 52% of British respondents believed God created the universe,
compared to 85% in the USA, 83% in Mexico, 99% in Indonesia and 96% in
Lebanon.
The
survey found that only 19% of those in Britain said they would die for
their God/beliefs.
Almost
a third (29%) of people in the kingdom believe that the world would be
a more peaceful place without beliefs in God.
Across
the ten countries, an average of 46% regularly attend a religious
service but the figure was 21% in the UK, the second lowest behind
Russia (7%).
Around
25% of Britons said they never prayed.
