In 1997 a poll by La Croix, a Catholic newspaper in France, showed that 70 percent of French youths admit that religion plays no real part in their lives.
उनमें से तीन - चौथाई युवा धर्म की शिक्षा से ज़्यादा महत्त्व व्यक्‍तिगत अनुभव को देते हैं ।