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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“You got it...Baby, you’ve got it.”
I’m not afraid... I trust God. If you want change, pray.
Right now a number of seminaries here in the states are attempting to have the same thing happen by bringing in bringing in teachers who are atheists.
Their goal is to destroy the student's belief. If you have a pastor who does not believe then the church is just a social club.
This is why you find such a gap in belief between the clergy and the laity.
One believes, the other just has a job.
So the idiot Brits profess no religion but import a massive influx of Islamic religion. They think their system will make everything right. Hitler was nothing compared to this enemy. Nice knowing you GB.
With no religious beliefs mankind will become wild animals with no morals.
No Bill of Rights, no religion, eventually no hope to stop the slide into the Third World!
What is the %age in the US?
What is the %age in the US?
Godless nations fall.
Can’t worship and praise the Supreme, intelligent, creative God of the universe now. Only the weak minded and backwards believe in such mythology. Only elitist, arrogant, godless leftist pibble is chic and equality laden worthiness. Fools all.
I think the USA in high 60-70% positive belief. But, most religious people in the USA are shallow and cultural.
Yes, w4e probably have 10% of our young people actually trying to live within a framework of morality outlined by a religion - but 70% claiming they are “religious”. When you see the rates for co-habitation and out-of-wedlock births, it is clear that religion is playing little role in this country anymore.
Some looking through rose-colored lenses will point out that the divorce rate is falling, but coupled with the drop in marriages it has a different meaning - many don’t get married at all now (no need for divorce). A recent news story here in NJ talked about the places with the most single adults - in a dating context - then proceeded to list the ghettoes where people haven’t been marrying for half a century. Talk about spin...
We may have to reintroduce Sadie Hawkins day.
They have to do something, or accept the inevitable disappearance of Anglo people and culture. They have to make marriage and families worthwhile again - primarily for guys, since they are the ones recoiling from it more strongly.
True. I’ve thought about it, and don’t see how you fix it.
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