Reading Time: 4 minutes “For people who say they were raised Christian,” says Dr. Linda Woodhead, “there is a 45% chance they will end up identifying as nones. But those raised with no religion have a 95% probability of staying that way. So ‘no religion’ is currently ‘sticky’ in a way Christianity is not.”
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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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Could the rise of the nonreligious defuse the population bomb?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fifty-four years ago, in 1968, American biologist Paul Ehrlich warned that a human “population bomb” threatened global catastrophe. The world’s population at the time was 3.54 billion.
On November 15, 2022, the UN estimate of Earth’s human population flew past eight billion.
Religious beliefs and practices are a major part of the problem. Increasing secularism can only help.