Nearly half of the population believes that Christ rose from the dead, according to a survey.The findings challenge the widespread view that an increasingly secular society sees Easter as little more than an opportunity to indulge a taste for chocolate - even though relatively few will go to church. More surprisingly, the figures suggest that belief in the Resurrection may actually be increasing.
A poll in 2001, by the Fortean Times newspaper, found that a third of people agreed with the Biblical account of the event, and a European Values study in 1990 put the figure at 32 per cent.
But almost half the respondents in the new survey, 47 per cent, said that they believed that Christ rose from the dead. More than a third, 36 per cent, said they did not, and 15 per cent said that they did not know.
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