Posted on 03/24/2018 5:18:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Youth in the United Kingdom are among the least religious in post-Christian Europe, with some 70 percent self-identifying as having “no religion,” according to a new report.
Religion in Europe is “moribund,” said Stephen Bullivant, the author of a report titled Europe’s Young Adults and Religion. “With some notable exceptions, young adults increasingly are not identifying with or practising religion,” said Bullivant, a professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary’s University in London.
“The new default setting is ‘no religion,’ and the few who are religious see themselves as swimming against the tide,” he said.
The report analyzes data from the latest European social survey of 16- to 29-year-olds across 21 nations in Europe, plus Israel.
While British youth are irreligious across the board, the Church of England has suffered particularly noteworthy losses.
Young Muslims in the UK are poised to overtake Anglicans, with the youth population of Britain’s established church only one percentage point ahead of Islam, at 7 percent and 6 percent respectively. Given Muslims’ significantly higher birthrate than that of Anglicans, it shouldn’t be long before more young British self-identify as Muslim than as Anglican.
The number of young Catholics has already passed that of the Church of England, with some ten percent of British between the ages of 16 and 29 professing the Catholic faith.
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No moral compass, no future except preying on each other.
Like Bobby sang, “You’re gonna have to serve somebody.”
Church of England might as well be no religion.
Give it 20 years and 70% will be religious.
That religion will be Islam.
Ultimately, what is necessary is to point out the glaring intellectual flaws with socialist/leftist philosophy, and start calling them out for being the sophomoric groupthink automatons that they are.
If they don’t change soon, they’ll be confessing islam or die in the future.
Sad story in my estimation.
There will be European nuclear nations under muzzie control within 20 years. That is a scary thought.
But if sh#t happens, then all of a sudden they find God.
I guess better late than never.
What did Moses warn about? Be careful that when your bellies are full that you forget about God. He said this as they were about to enter Canaan.
We’d better keep our boomers in top shape. We are likely going to need them, and not just for deterrence either.
Mayor Khan from Londonistan will be PM of GB in a decade or less. Guaranteed.
The other 30% are Muslim.
Started with openly gay priests and gay marriage.
And to think “Mere Christianity” was broadcast to the UK soldiers by the BBC during WW2. Makes me sad. We are next. Your children and grandchildren.
France has the largest nuclear power program in the world. 20 years is a very generous estimate.
Thank the government school system, and other institutions.
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