How many "Lip service" Muslims are there in the middle east and North Africa?

While it's "unknowable" statistically speaking, you have to imagine that it's fairly common. Even those who harbour doubts but have no one to talk to.

I do. But I'd want to differentiate between those who know they don't believe and those who have never really thought about it.

Too damned many.
Cowards.

I think almost all of them fake it to some extent. It's almost like a contest for them to be holier-than-thou, or most "persecuted". However, I suspect that a significant portion of Congress are agnostic or atheist. Given their level of education and generally higher than average intelligence, it is probably a statistical certainty that the ratio of nonbelievers to believers is higher in Congress.

That is an interesting question and I am inclined to think that it is not so much a matter of fitting in but more a matter of belonging to some group. I think it was the late Dr Thomas Szasz who said: "In most people the desire to belong is greater than the desire to understand, hence the popularity of religions and cults and the lack of the role of reason in human affairs".

nope. i never wondered. i never met anyone who was faking it then again, i was raised in a secular jewish household. i didn't hang out with a religious gang (of any religion). so it never occurred to me to wonder.

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I’ve given it very little thought.