- You know next to nothing about it, and cannot imagine how it could be relevant to contemporary life.

- You resent being told what you should and should not do by a bunch of moralists and fuddy-duddies. The presumptuousness is absurd; civilisation has gone past all that. So long as others do not harm you, you will not harm them. You just want to make your way in the world and enjoy yourself.

- You cannot understand how any intelligent person could fall for such nonsense. It is largely fable and superstition, long discredited by modern science. And all the different religions contradict each other. Believers of every stripe are 'the victims of fraud' .

- You regard Christianity - indeed religion in general - as a malign and dangerous force. It has always held back human progress. Any God who would permit such dreadful suffering as occurs in the world must be repudiated. Religion provides an excuse for human beings to do nothing to alleviate suffering in the here and now.

- You have some respect for the more liberal churches, but in the main you associate Christianity with right-wing politics. It seems to be a belief system that helps keep many odious and reactionary governments in power. Being of the Left yourself, you do not want a bar of it.

- You can admire some - though certainly not all - of the ethical teaching in the New Testament. Jesus was evidently a fine person, but nothing more. The Old Testament is utterly outdated and often incomprehensible.

- You sense that something is lacking in your life, and would like to be able to believe in God. Sometimes you think that you might already sense His presence. But for whatever reason, you cannot get any further than that.

- You incline to the view that there is a higher force than Man, but remain sceptical about many of the claims of Christianity. In particular, you struggle with Creationism, the idea of miracles, the afterlife, and the divinity of Jesus. These issues are too hard to fathom, so you are inclined to let them go as 'unknowable'.

- You would call yourself a Christian, but it is not a major part of your life. In fact, on reflection, you really do not know a great deal about Christianity, or any religion. You would like to learn more and to try to develop a stronger, more meaningful faith, but you just never seem to get around to it.

- You are a Christian, and your faith is important to you, but even so you have never taken the time to analyse rigorously why you believe what you do. Nor could you honestly say that you have tried to obey the seminal injunction of St Peter, who urged that every believer must 'always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have' (1 Peter 3:15). You are content to leave that job to the churches, or at any rate to people more eloquent and knowledgeable than you.