YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary. Means your own situation, and therefore your take on a fact, opinion or whatever, may vary from that of the author of the post due to different circumstance.
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Thanks Ice Wolf.
Ok, I’ve come up with another question. Aren’t I nosey? I just keep finding things online that spark curiosity.
How important is church/religion to daily life? I myself am not particularly religious and have a family of mixed religions, but many of the families around here go to church on sundays and on the major religious holidays.
No one in day to day life will really care. You will find many Christian and other religious groups on campus but they won’t push their agenda in your face. From my experience the vast majority of younger people are not into any religion.
Perhaps as a contrast, I have been lead to belive that it is vital for an American polititical leader to express their religious veiws to the general public. I have know idea what our Primeminsiter’s veiws are and to judge from her personality fairly minimal.
Tolerance of religious issues seems to be the norm.
Yes, unfortunately religion has become more and more of an agenda in politics here. If you ask me, as long as you do the job well, and you’re not sacrificing small children in the back yard, it doesn’t really matter what you do in your private life. I also wish people would keep their religious agendas out of our political rights, but all that is another thread. :rolleyes:
Thank you Ice Wolf for clearing up my unintertional net speak opaqueness, and your definition of YMMV is indeed precisely what I meant.
Religion here is important to people to whom it is important – if you see what I mean – but very much less “in your face” than in the US. I remember the first time I saw a TV ad in the US where the chap marketing his furniture store said “We’re open everyday but Sunday, 'cos that’s the Lord’s day”, while holding a large bible; I had to pick my jaw up from the floor. Major culture shock. 
You don’t often see such blatant examples as that in general ads and such, Apollyon, but there are a lot of ads from churches and religous special interest groups, especially here in Kansas. Even living in a real city (no, I don’t have any cows:p ), there is a scary amount of closemindedness due to religion, predominantly Christianity. It’s one of the things that really makes me want to get out of here.
Well, I was living in Iowa at the time.
I think Kipper pretty well summed up the situation here – there are plenty of people with religion, but they tend to be fairly private about it.
(There is of course the odd Friday night, on the corner, hellfire-and-brimstone zealot – but they’re fairly rare in my experience and certainly not considered main-stream).