The full quote goes:

“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.”

…and @mjrobbins points out that this weekend the newspapers look like:

• Telegraph
• Mail
• Times

But Wikipedia figures:

The 2001 census found that 76.8% of the UK population had a religion. Surveys that employ a “harder” question tend to find lower proportions. The British Social Attitudes Survey survey, produced by the National Centre for Social Research in the same year, reported that 58% considered themselves to “belong to” a religion. An Ipsos MORI poll in 2003 reported that 43% considered themselves to be “a member of an organised religion”.

In the 2001 census Christianity was the largest religion, being designated by 71.6% of respondents. The 2007 Tearfund Survey which revealed that 53% identified themselves as Christian and the 2007 British Social Attitudes Survey, found that it was almost 47.5%. The EU-funded European Social Survey published in April 2009 found that only 12% of British people belong to a church.

My emphasis, last line; media thundering aside, I wonder how many will truly care.

Already once this week I’ve argued about the difference between freedom of speech versus the obligation to provide a platform for someone else’s speech. Perhaps this is another occasion.