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 […]
Demographics of Religion
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What to do with a disused church: A quiet sign of Catholic surrender in the UK
Reading Time: 3 minutes Near my home in suburban UK sits a Catholic church attached to a primary school. Although we are less religious than our American cousins, who are themselves secular, our education system is still hugely under the influence of religion. About 37% of primary schools are faith schools. For just under a decade, the church on […]
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Humanists Raise Awareness of the Nonreligious Latinx Community
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is from the American Humanist Association: Today, the Latinx Humanist Alliance (LHA) officially launches the 1 in 5 campaign, which strives to raise awareness of the growing nonreligious Latinx population in the US. This marks the second year of this campaign, which initially launched in 2019 upon the creation of the LHA. “This campaign is […]
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Armstrong’s Bad Sociological Claims: Religion Makes You a Better Person
Reading Time: 12 minutes Dave Armstrong has recently been involved with me in a protracted debate about the unequal distribution of evidence for God’s existence, and God being unfair. Within the debates was a side point about whether this unequal evidence is of benefits in our earthly existences or whether it is just rebalanced in an afterlife. Armstrong takes […]
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Nonreligious Americans Are A Growing Political Force
Reading Time: < 1 minute I posted from a recent written article that touched on this, the other day. Here’s a very interesting podcast discussing the political importance of the nonreligious demographic in US politics.
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It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am fairly addicted to FiveThirtyEight, even though I am a Brit, although I’ve more recently been watching their podcasts and videos on YouTube. That said, a recent piece was particularly interesting: “It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion“. It starts: Only 47 percent of American adults said they were members of […]
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Huge Generational Surge in UK Non-Religious
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is from Humanists UK. What to me is fascinating is the shrinking of the Anglican segment and the relative growth of “other Christians”: The latest British Social Attitudes Survey has shown that the share of the population belonging to no religion has continued to grow, now standing at 53%, with 12% Anglicans, 7% Catholics, […]
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Democrats Ignoring Young Nonreligious Voters
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve always been interested in the demographics of the nonreligious (hence my massive fanship of The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies by Zuckerman, Galen and Pasquale). As a result, this FiveThirtyEight article is of particular interest. The main point has been pretty obvious for some time: the nonreligious are far more likely to be left-leaning and Democrat […]
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Assessing the Claim that “Christians Are the Most Persecuted Group”
Reading Time: 14 minutes I was involved in an argument on Facebook concerning the news of the cathedral in the Frensch city of Nantes. This was fresh news: it was only just happening. And yet, already, the person in question wrote this comment alongside a video of the burning building: There are people who hate the truth, hate the […]
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Atheism: Proportion of Northern Ireland “Nones” at Record High
Reading Time: 2 minutes Northern Ireland is synonymous with religious divide and sectarian belief and conflict. Now, unsurprisingly given similar trends over both the rest of the UK and other similar countries, those who profess to no religion have grown to record numbers: The proportion of people in Northern Ireland who identify as ‘non-religious’ has hit a record high […]