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Post-Christian Britain arrives as majority say they have no religion
London Times ^ | January 17, 2016 | Nicholas Hellen

Posted on 01/18/2016 7:19:02 AM PST by C19fan

A POST-CHRISTIAN era has dawned in Britain, with most white Britons now saying they have no religion, according to a new survey.

The increase is most pronounced among those aged under 40 and comes amid claims that they feel alienated from the church’s conservative social values.

The poll, conducted by YouGov last month with a sample of 1,500 across the whole population, including recent immigrants, found almost half (46%) have no religion, up from 42% in February 2015 and from 37% in January 2013.

This rises to more than 50% among white British.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesundaytimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: atheism; britain; christianity; postchristian; secularization
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As a Anglophile, this is heart breaking. Sorry to say this bye bye Britain. I might not be around to see the end but it is coming. It is not Britain has abandoned religion it is they are making sacrifices, literally, at the alter of multiculturalism and political correctness.
1 posted on 01/18/2016 7:19:02 AM PST by C19fan
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The Bible relates more than one case where the Jews backed away from God’s teachings. It was not pretty what happened to them.


2 posted on 01/18/2016 7:27:54 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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ha ha ha... the poor fools.

Misguided and ignorant.

They will soon have a religion - Islam.

Over 85 active Sharia courts right now!


3 posted on 01/18/2016 7:29:13 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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The Brits do have a thriving religion — Islam.
What is happening in the UK today is a preview of what will be happening in America in the future — the creation of just another muzzie hellhole complete with mosques.


4 posted on 01/18/2016 7:34:31 AM PST by 353FMG
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The wages of sin is death. The wages of abandoning God is extinction.


5 posted on 01/18/2016 7:34:54 AM PST by marron
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"they feel alienated from the church's conservative social values."

"And God gave them over..."

6 posted on 01/18/2016 7:35:55 AM PST by circlecity
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2 Thess 2:3 “...that day will not come except there shall come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition”


7 posted on 01/18/2016 7:39:34 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Post-Christian Britain arrives as majority say they have no religion

Nature abhors a vacuum.
8 posted on 01/18/2016 7:39:53 AM PST by needmorePaine
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It sounds like Britian is at a point, where the majority of those who do follow any religion, are followers of Islam. Not good news for the future,.


9 posted on 01/18/2016 7:40:29 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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This has been coming for decades. When I lived in Britain in the 80’s, I only knew a handful of people who were religious. All of my close in-laws are non-believers. I went to my local church one Sunday, a lovely medieval stone church, and there was only one other person sitting in the sanctuary for the service. I found that many people there think that believing or having faith is for the unintelligent and naive. Yes, Islam will take over as the dominant faith there, in the coming decades. When you are frequently ridiculed for your faith, as are Christians and Jews in Britain by those of ‘loftier’ place, you are more likely to rethink your position. I am a believer, but thankful I don’t have to live there anymore.


10 posted on 01/18/2016 7:41:24 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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They have no religion. They have no guns. They have no defense against Islam. They are finished.


11 posted on 01/18/2016 7:47:53 AM PST by txrefugee
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Does this mean they’ll gladly vote for the Muslim MP?


12 posted on 01/18/2016 8:01:35 AM PST by cornelis
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Well John Lennon sang about imagining it, and now it’s come true.


13 posted on 01/18/2016 8:02:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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Britain will soon have a religion - whether they like it or not.


14 posted on 01/18/2016 8:06:03 AM PST by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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Atheism/Agnosticism skyrockets in just two years?
Does not pass the smell test.


15 posted on 01/18/2016 8:10:23 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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And that figure was taken from a 2009 study.

I’m sure there are more now.


16 posted on 01/18/2016 9:04:24 AM PST by bimboeruption (Nothing imtimidates evil more than when the redeemed become fearless.)
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Mohammed is gonna force a lot of these godless fools find Jesus, sadly...


17 posted on 01/18/2016 9:08:07 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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They are going to have islam broke off in their azz soon.


18 posted on 01/18/2016 9:09:15 AM PST by DungeonMaster
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Turning their backs on faithe and worship has resulted in a very empty, hollow life in Great Brittain.


19 posted on 01/18/2016 9:14:46 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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Could this possibly be, due to the refudiation of ‘the royals’ as the leaders of the Anglican Church?

I believe that with the end of WW2, the very faith of England was shaken.

There was not a cessation of ‘war’, just a re-characterization of it, from ‘open’ to ‘covert’.

Also, now, with the advent of nuclear war as a tremendous, or a faint reality, the idea that England has no defense against that, makes life a non sequetor.


20 posted on 01/18/2016 10:03:24 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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