Reading Time: 2 minutes As analysis of the data from the 2020 UK census filters into the public domain, a question arises: Why does the US census not ask questions pertaining to religion? Only about a quarter of Americans know the answer. In the mid-to-late 1950s, the Census Bureau asked a question on religious affiliation ahead of the 1960 […]
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Census: Christianity in UK on the back foot
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 2021 national census in England and Wales seems like a long time ago now, but the data is only just being released after aggregation and analysis. As reported recently, non-religion in the UK is in the ascendancy and Christianity is in decline. The latest statistics reaffirm this. Though the religion question in the census […]
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Census reveals Christians are finally in the minority in England and Wales
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the first time ever, Christians in England and Wales are in the minority, according to the latest census results. Between 2011 and 2021, the percent of people calling themselves Christian fell from 59% to 46%; during that same period, the “No Religion” group jumped from 25% to 37%. The 2021 data, released yesterday by […]
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Christians now a minority in England and Wales
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the past few months, as the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has analyzed the data from Census 2021, they have gradually released interesting nuggets to the British public. Today, the ONS released data showing the continued decline of Christianity, the dominant religion in the UK. This census has indicated a 5.5 million-person decline […]
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Canadians are less religious than ever before, census reveals
Reading Time: 2 minutes More than a third of Canadians have no religious affiliation, according to new census data released by Statistics Canada, the nation’s statistical agency. The 34.6% of Canadian “Nones” more than doubles the 16.5% who fell into the same category in 2001, revealing a trend that has yet to plateau. The agency says the change cannot […]
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‘No religion’ is the second-largest faith group in Australia, census shows
Reading Time: 3 minutes The percentage of Australians who have no religious affiliation has jumped from 30.1% in 2016 to an astonishing 38.9% in 2021, marking a rapid shift away from organized religion. That’s one of the major results released by Australia’s Bureau of Statistics, which conducts a census every five years and began releasing 2021 Census data today. […]
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Possibiliter Ergo Probabiliter and the McGrew Nativity Debate
Reading Time: 9 minutes Possibiliter ergo probabiliter is a fallacy that Richard Carrier coined to express the ubiquitous technique that theists use to try to explain away issues that pop up in the Bible and this is no more evident in Christian approaches to defending problems within the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew. Indeed, in my recent debate with […]
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Nativity, Census, Quirinius: Refuting Very Poor Christian Apologetics Again. Even More.
Reading Time: 14 minutes As I explained yesterday (perhaps read it for context), I was linked to a vicar apologist challenge for skeptics to lay out a Nativity contradiction. It went like this: I was linked into some challenge from a vicar apologist who was seeking skeptic challengers to find nativity contradictions that he could slam dunk refute (by Dave […]
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Debating Quirinius with a Christian
Reading Time: 6 minutes I had the dubious pleasure of debating a number of different aspects of the Nativity with a Christian apologist (a Cambridge astrophysics graduate and vicar) whom I had been linked to on Facebook after he had posted this: Time for my annual Christmas challenge. Skeptics say that there are contradictions in and amongst the Gospels […]
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My Nativity Debate with Lydia McGrew: Post-Match Analysis
Reading Time: 8 minutes I had a debate over whether the Nativity in Luke and Mark was fact or fairytale on Friday night for the Unbelievable? show on Premier Christian radio. I was warned that McGrew might try the Gish-gallup approach so I should get it in myself. I ended up being indeed fairly scattergun, though not out of […]