How many parents have been asked the question, has your child been baptised.
Most children these days aren't baptised.
That's birth what about death, what kind of funeral, religion is still mentioned.
Increasingly 'hatch, match and dispatch' are marked without religion. Certainly hatch and match are much more likely to be marked without religion than with - not sure about despatch, but the trend is most definitely away from religion.
School, school assembly or history lessons, history lessons without mentioning religion!
Many non faith schools focus on morality, sharing community etc in assemblies in an entirely non religious way. Sure religion is mentioned in history, but so is fascism, communism and the Battle of Hastings - so what.
Does your council building fly a flag, here in Glasgow it is usually three flags, Saltire or St Andrews cross, Union flag and sometimes our cities emblem, all three flags are religiously inspired.
But flags such as the Saltire or Union flag are primarily symbols of nationalism, not of religion. If their primary influence and importance was religious then the Saltire, for example would be just as important to English Christians as to Scottish Christians and unimportant to a Sottish nationalist who is an atheist. But it isn't - why because although its origin is religious its significance is no longer largely religious but effectively as a symbol of nationalism.
Our national sport, well here in Glasgow, sadly you can't escape religion, but at most sporting events we ask God to save the Queen, the monarchy, religion again.
But that's a rather peculiarly scottish thing isn't it. I don't think religion had any meaningful bearing in yesterday's match between my team Watford and Leicester - do you?
On national anthems - again primarily nationalist not religious. If primarily religious in influence then surely French Christians would much prefer our national anthem with its mention of god to their own which isn't religious at all.
Our two biggest holidays, religion.
Both multifaceted - being just as much seasonal festivals as religious ones - indeed one (in the UK at least) is named after a pagan spring deity. And most people don't celebrate either as religious festivals - sure, of course there are many who do, but most people don't. And as with bonfire night - just because there is a cultural tradition of celebrating it doesn't mean that people are necessarily influenced by their religious origins rather than their cultural inertia, so to speak.
