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The UK is no longer majority Christian

Altfish

Veteran Member
England and Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals | Census | The Guardian

"The census revealed a 5.5 million drop in the number of Christians..."

"37.2% of people – 22.2 million – declared they had “no religion”, the second most common response after Christian." This is up from (IIRC) 25.4% 10-years ago

"The chief executive of Humanists UK, Andrew Copson, said: “One of the most striking things about these census results is how at odds the population is from the state itself. No state in Europe has such a religious set-up as we do in terms of law and public policy, while at the same time having such a non-religious population.”
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
For instance, it is very likely that it will stop being a Christian nation in few decades.
It can become a totally atheistic nation.:)
Or it can become a nation whose majority professes a different theistic religion, other than Christianity (much more likely).
 

Starlight

Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Just remember that many people who do not belong to a religion do believe in a higher power. So many people who rote 'no religion' do believe in a higher power. They belong to 'spiritual but not religious' group
 

Altfish

Veteran Member
Just remember that many people who do not belong to a religion do believe in a higher power. So many people who rote 'no religion' do believe in a higher power. They belong to 'spiritual but not religious' group
Proof?
More likely many non-believers put down the religion they were brought up in.
Compare the numbers regularly attending church with the census figures, there is a huge difference.
 

Secret Chief

nirvana is samsara
No state in Europe has such a religious set-up as we do in terms of law and public policy,

I'm not sure what is being referred to specifically. And whatever it is, it doesn't seem obvious to me that we are so much more "set-up" compared to all other European countries.
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
England and Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals | Census | The Guardian

"The census revealed a 5.5 million drop in the number of Christians..."

"37.2% of people – 22.2 million – declared they had “no religion”, the second most common response after Christian." This is up from (IIRC) 25.4% 10-years ago

"The chief executive of Humanists UK, Andrew Copson, said: “One of the most striking things about these census results is how at odds the population is from the state itself. No state in Europe has such a religious set-up as we do in terms of law and public policy, while at the same time having such a non-religious population.”

There are 3 answers, truth, falsehood and statistics.
I think you are up there, but if we nitpick the methodology it becomes more complicated.
 

Altfish

Veteran Member
I'm not sure what is being referred to specifically. And whatever it is, it doesn't seem obvious to me that we are so much more "set-up" compared to all other European countries.
Because it was Andrew Copson saying it, it'll be religious schools funded by the state, our new monarch (Now that's another argument) being 'defender of the faith', our second chamber having 24 Bishops, the unfair influence of the church on matters such as abortion and assisted dying.
 

Altfish

Veteran Member
Just for the record, England and Wales are not the U.K. they are parts of it. Scotland and Northern Ireland are too. So is the U.K. no longer majority Christian?
Scotland (I'm not sure about NI) had a separate census, 12-months later in 2022, there figures will be released next year
 
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