The real bitch of it, and the thing that REALLY honks me off, is...

Why do they consider it relevant in the first place.

I had to put on the form that I had children, and there wasn't a box to tick
as to whether my gits believed in santa claus, the tooth fairy, or the
easter bunny, or even little red riding hood.

Spose it must be to gauge how wide-spread mental is illness as much as
anything.

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>From: ranterjmc <no_reply@...>
>Sent: Thu 13/02/2003 20:05
>To: atheismuk2@...
>Subject: [Atheism UK] Re: Census religion results in...
>
>--- In atheismuk2@y..., Phil At Home <phil.healey@n...> wrote:
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a bit of a hoo haa
>about
>> the fact that the census form didn't (at least at first) have a
>"None" box
>> to tick on the religion question, and you had to tick "Other" and say
>> "Atheist" ???
>>
>>
>> Might be wrong, but it was a long time ago, and I put so much
>gobbledegook
>> on it, they would have been lucky even to decipher where I lived!!!
>>
>
>I think it was a "silly question silly answer" myself lumping JWs and
>Catholics together.
>
>But we discussed it at the time and the concensus we had was to tick
>"none" rather than "other".
>
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