Modern Britain is “spiritual” but not religious. That’s the headline finding of an opinion poll, and accompanying report, released this week by the Christian think-tank Theos. The ComRes poll – which confirms a trend identified in several previous surveys – found that well over half those questioned (59%) said that they believed in some kind of spiritual being or essence. There were substantial, though minority, levels of belief in specific concepts such as spirts, angels and “a universal life force”, whatever that is. One for the Jedis, perhaps.
Even a third of people who described themselves as non-religious were prepared to own up to having some such ideas, while a mere 13% – and only a quarter of the non-religious – agreed with the statement that “humans are purely material beings with no spiritual element”. And more than three-quarters of the survey agreed that “there are things that we cannot simply explain through science or any other means”.
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