The Form Book

Let's go down and join Clive Graham in the paddock. What sort of form are they showing, Clive?

Well, Peter, as of 2005 they go:

• Christianity 33.1% (34.5% in 1900)
• Islam 20.4% (12.3%)
• Chinese Traditional 6.3% (23.5%)
• Hinduism 13.5% (12.5%)
• Non-religious 14.3% (0.2%)

We note the slight dip in the turnover for Christianity and the interesting rise in the figures for Islam. Perhaps the most intriguing figure concerns the marked increase in non-believers. "Today more than one in six people claim to be atheistic or non-religious", says the National Geographic. I wonder what they mean by "non-religious"?

It seems to me a lot of Islamists go about things in a "non-religious" way, chopping off people's heads, that sort of thing. And where do the "don't knows" fit into this scheme of things?