The changing face of Britain
Census is in, Christianity is on the decline, Atheism and Islam are on the rise, and white people are almost a minority....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/11/census-religion-decline-rise-bo...
Government statisticians sliced a cross-section through England and Wales on Tuesday and exposed a place that is healthy, increasingly multi-faith and more likely than ever to be talking in Polish, Hindi or Urdu around the dinner table.
The results of the 2011 census of 56 million people, the most thorough analysis yet of how life changed in the first decade of the 21st century, revealed that our towns and cities are global villages with an extra 2.9 million foreign-born people living in England and Wales since 2001 – most from India, Poland and Pakistan – and an additional 1.1 million Muslims, bringing the total to 2.7 million.
Christianity, or at least the number identifying themselves as followers of the largest religion, is on the slide with more than 4 million fewer saying they followed the church than in 2001.
The march of the faithless has also continued with 14.1 million people, about a quarter of the entire population, saying they had no religion at all, a rise of 6.4 million over the decade.
Claiming the title for the most godless places were the student enclaves of Brighton and Norwich, where 42% said they had no religious affiliation, closely followed by Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Rhondda in south Wales, where community leaders said unemployment and a breakdown in community values had loosened religion's hold. Even the number of people jokingly professing to be Jedi Knights more than halved.
The Office of National Statistics census director, Guy Goodwin, said the snapshot of life taken on 27 March 2011 was "a picture of big change since 2001 and a population that is increasingly diverse".
Buried in the statistics, changing social mores were writ large. The number of married people fell below 50%; there were 400,000 more single parents and 504,000 extra cohabiting unmarried couples. Four out of five people said they were in good or very good health but the impact of an ageing population loomed, with 2.1 million people reporting that they were giving 20 hours or more of unpaid care for someone with an illness or disability, almost half a million more than in 2001.
Growing economic hardship figured with 1.8 million of the economically active population unemployed and 2 million households overcrowded – half a million more than in 2001.
But it was the impact of the rising population of people born abroad and the changing face of religion in England and Wales that grabbed attention. On the day Church of England bishops met to discuss the rejection of plans to ordain women bishops, secularists said the trend away from Christianity was evidence that conservative church attitudes did not impress the public.
The British Humanists Association (BHA) had encouraged people to tick the "No religion" box and said the fall was "astounding". It has calculated that Christians could be in a minority by 2018.
Christianity remains the largest religion in England and Wales with 33.2 million followers, or 59% of the population. The Church of England said the figures "confirm we remain a faithful nation", but adding that the fall of 4 million in those choosing to see themselves as Christians was "a challenge".
Rev Arun Arora, director of communications for the Archbishops' Council, said that one explanation may be that fewer people identify as "cultural Christians" – "ie those who have no active involvement with churches and who may previously have identified as Christian for cultural or historical reasons. They indicate a changing pattern of religious life in which traditional or inherited identities are less taken for granted than they used to be."
Andrew Copson, BHA chief executive, said: "This is a really significant cultural shift. It is time that public policy caught up with this mass turning away from religious identities and stopped privileging religious bodies with ever-increasing numbers of state-funded religious schools and other faith-based initiatives."
Islam, the next biggest religion, has a growing base. People who identified themselves as Muslims in 2011 numbered 2.7 million, up from 1.55 million in 2001. Muslims now make up 4.8% of the population, compared with 3% in 2001. There were 817,000 Hindus, 423,000 Sikhs, 263,000 Jews and 248,000 Buddhists.
Farooq Murad, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said the figures showed Muslims were "playing a significant part in the diversity of Britain" but he added that said the relatively low number would be a reality check for supporters of the far right "who try to alarm the country that Britain is being overrun by Islam".
Julian Bond, director of the Christian Muslim Forum, said the figures reinforced the need to "think about the best possible way to engage with Islam and think about whether people should be having days off for Eid, how Ramadan is accommodated and how religion is taught in schools".
The number identifying themselves in the ONS's category of "white British" fell from 87.5% in 2011 to 80.5% in 2011 with the foreign-born population now close to one in eight in England and Wales.
India accounts for the largest foreign-born population, overtaking Ireland, followed by Poland with an increase of 500,000 people coming to England and Wales in the last decade, spurred by its accession to the European Union in 2004. About half of the foreign-born residents arrived between 2001 and 2011.
The largest increase in the foreign-born population was in London, where more than a third of residents were born abroad – almost a quarter were not British nationals. Britain is far from alone in this: Spain, Sweden, Belgium and Austria are among the eight EU countries that last year recorded a higher percentage of foreign-born nationals.
The ONS's use of the term "foreign-born" does not give a full picture of the changing nature of citizenship. About 60% of foreign-born residents become British citizens within five years of arrival. The figure also includes an estimated 300,000 overseas students as well as a significant minority of Britons who were born overseas, including about 250,000 children born to parents serving abroad in the armed forces.
The status of English as the main language is also changing – 1.2m households now include no adults for whom English is their main language. The census found 31,000 households in Birmingham and more than 21,000 each in Manchester and Leicester had no one resident for whom English was the main language. There were 422,000 households in this category across outer and inner London. The ONS said they had not measured the standard of English for those people who said it was not their main language.
Actually Eggy I have to completely agree 100% with you........Bugger orf and worry about your own countries.....If you're not British mind your own bloody business!!!!
Why do you all the time bother yourself with what is happening in the UK when you are 'Canadian' and your 'put upon partner' is South African?
Why not concentrate on the s*it in your partners homeland and how crap Canadians are.
Why do you read our papers? You know nothing of the political agenda but you always choose to comment on them- whilst insulting the very press you take your forums from.
Why are you so obsessed with the UK?
Do you really know anything about this topic?
No you don't.
Back off - England has lesser immigrants then some countries.
Because he tends to scape when you put him in a corner with a tough question
"But if it were to happen to your relatives you would have no problem believing in it!
What a hypocrite."
Blosted, you a55hole
a real holocaust is taking place daily in Palestine, since more than 60 years
Only a dick head like you insists on denying it
Many even...
And how many of you actually know anything about Britain enough to pass comment?? Not any I would say.......
Ukeng talking to ur self ;) lock it now
O dear I thought this thread was about the changing faces of Britain but looks like our resident QL ayatollah's have hijacked this thread :) Mods time to lock this thread :)
That it is not worth it to reply to it.
@SA ,well you skipped reading my comments...
And Hajji, I guess loads of people being gazed is not enough to believe in it?
But if it were to happen to your relatives you would have no problem believing in it!
What a hypocrite.
Wait a mome guys, hajji radii I asked Blosted the question, and he skipped the answer.
Ah ok.
well, we are the same in a different way then.
then you are not different from me, nomerci
because I also can't find anything convincing in all the amount of media & museums related to this "holocaust"
I have seen such a museum in Berlin, once. It is so stupid & childish, that I was amazed with the stupidity of people who would believe it
then tahsinmim, you might want to consider this in your sweeping generalizations.
I do understand, but I do not find the answers convincing.
ok Haji, but can you please answer the questions i asked with answers?
And many of the people who "participated" in the holocaust did not move to some promised land...so why are they lieyng?
I already did, nomercy
It is up to you to understand it or not
tahsinmim, i am not an atheist.
is that the "short of your best"???
(Don’t ever be the best you can for anyone else. Don’t even be the best for yourself. Be the best you can for the One who deserves nothing short of your best.)
I'll answer you with more questions:
1.What country had the biggest losses in lives, during WWII?
2.Does this country has as many museums to document their loss, as the number of museums dedicated to some "holocaust"?
3.Why are investigations and researches not allowed in the west when it comes to this "holocaust"
The more museums/media, the more brain washing on the people.
Pictures, movies, museums...etc can be easily made...just go watch "Wag The Dog"...it's a great movie
They fabricated this "holocaust" to justify the moving to the "promised land"
Bravo Hajji! I took my hat off for your really thoughtful reply.
It only shows how good are you at making an complete scene out of yourself, and just going around and cherry picking people's comments and trolling them ,to be honest your arrogance is really becoming tiring.
@Babu ,partially, because a suicide bomber chooses to disregard his emotion to achieve a certain goal.
A psychopath has absolutely no awareness of his actions.
Haji, I hope you can explain something to me.
You are saying the holocaust is a lie. Ok, fine.
Can you please explain to me why they made several museums (in Germany) about it with gruesome evidence?
Why are the concentration camp survivors lieyng about what happened?
All those pictures and books that exist about it, why are they faked?
Ex Nazis, talking and writing about having taken away people at night to camps, people having worked in camps and talking about the experiences...
What is the reason for all those lies?
If it never happend, then why are all those people saying the opposite?
And I am sorry for the hijack.
The logic of an a55:
"So it is a great offense to speak "
I thought that people are supposed to speak freely, all issues are open for debate, an we should not shut any mouths
even while suicide bombing the guy lost control ,because emotion is not applicable to him in his situation.
"the hatred of the west planted in the children's crane at most Arabic countries"
no one is planting it....it is planting itself as a result of their acts towards muslims & arabs (USA & UK, at least)
When you plant and support a strange body in the muslim/arab lands and provide it with weapons to kill the original owners of the land, then don't expect that you are planting love seeds in the souls of muslim/arab children
blosted
get your head out of your a55
you are the only moron here
there is no such thing as a "holocaust"...it is a lie
if you are brave enough and standing on solid grounds, then discuss it, provide true evidence and win the debate instead of calling peoples names and doing threats
Oh ! so how about we let the guys with the sticks and and AK47 prevail over the place, abuse the women/girls and children with their divine dogmas , and let's just wait sitting there saying nothing!
If they intervene they are called murderers.
If they do not intervene they are called zionist pigs who are afraid of Israel.
Praise thy mighty logic.
@Babu , yes either ways you are killing, that's how the normal person sees it.
But to the Psychopath that lost control over himself ,it's something normal ,because emotion is not applicable to him in his situation.
And to the moron out there who says the "holocaust is a lie"
Yes they wouldn't want you to dig that in public (In specific countries only like France and Germany), because a lot of people died out there, and I am speaking by the hundreds of thousands and millions!
So it is a great offense to speak out of this dark event in public, specially when a lot of the sons and grand sons of the victims are still alive!
It's like blaming the Armenians for not wanting to talk about the Armenian genocide in public in their country.
Or would you say it's a lie too?
here is a difference between suicide bombing yourself in a tactical way, and loosing control over your nervous system and doing heinous random things like killing.
what is the difference please elaborate, either ways u r "killing"
Again,a lot of people are missing the point here.
It is not to you to judge people, you are not a professional psychiatrist, you do not own a psychology or neurology clinic.
There is a big difference between a terrorist and someone who have let's say bipolar disorder.
So quit nagging .
@Babu , if you ask me ,the hatred of the west planted in the children's crane at most Arabic countries is more dangerous than video games.
@SA, No he can't...for whatever you find holy's sake,"closing their eyes?", if you ask me ,till now faith shuts the eye of reason of the people.
Faith literally mean : The belief in something without any approachable evidence.
So basically there is a difference between suicide bombing yourself in a tactical way, and loosing control over your nervous system and doing heinous random things like killing.
SA
your posts...I mean...I'd like to help you out...which way did you come in?
Way A will end your life quickly
Way B will make you happy and comfortable
What way will a wise person select and what way an insane person will select?
QDCLover
And let's not forget those countries who would throw you in prison if you debate or make a research on the so-called "holocaust"
They don't want you to discover the amount of lies in this issue
An other terrorist white American killed 20 innocent children of age 5 to 10 years old but doesn't get called terrorist even though the people who were near the incident said they were terrorized.
which involves orders of beheading, mental abuse and brain washing children etc...
Video and images take at the scene showed the terror of the moment, as adults led long lines of terrified children out of the school to safety. Parents rushed to the scene to reunite with their children as police crews, including SWAT teams and K-9 units, combed the schoolyard.
Can the term terrorist only be used for non-white or immigrants?
What is this double standard? What do you think?
please
If some one decided to close his/her eyes can they see what is infront of them if their eyes remained closed?
Same question for you Blosted
@SA , sorry, but I am sure this is not getting us elsewhere (Read your reply again), you are using "Comparing two cars" to a controversial matter ,which involves orders of beheading, mental abuse and brain washing children etc...
Take this example:
If your company have two cars and you are asked to select a car as a gift from your company and one of the cars have a high rate of failure and the other car is alright with very minor defects and it is the number one choice by people, which car will you select?
about people who are not agreeing with your opinion?
There is more than just Iran. Hezbollah, Hamas, those guys in Aceh and the Israelis issue death threats against individuals as well.
@SA, would you please stop with your already old-fashioned argument? whenever you got no effective comments,just don't reply, but don't go around with your "seek the truth,seek the truth".
It's really getting old to be honest,it's more irritating than it is effective.
@SA, "Any how please mind your words, and your last comment should be implemented by you first" this type of threats, whenever you feel the slightest discomfort by something that is true or different than what you think, you resort in a swift to threats.
Leave alone a civilized debate.
is good for those who seeks truth and not some media which is misleading some people
Not really true, the Iranian govt has issued death threats to name just one non-western media.
posted this on white woman.
the most dangerous thread is miss leading people and putting religion to satisfy some personal interests.
Any how please mind your words, and your last comment should be implemented by you first.
How would I know if someone is telling me a lie? If I know it's a lie of course I do not believe it, but if it is plausible then maybe I do think it is true.
It seems that Islam has become Fight Club. The first rule is do not talk about it....
well Britexpat, as long as they are not in China, it's OK
But once they go to China, she'll get lost and he'll never recognize her among the million copies of her
britexpat i thought u wld be keeping my marriage a secret :/
What is this facination with white women ?
As societies develop and integrate , inter-faith and inter-racial marriages become more commonplace. In fact i have a muslim friend who has just married a christian chinese lady and they are both very happy. :o)
@SA , your mind has nothing to do when is faced in front of threats from the other side for a stupid debate.
QDCLover may I give advice, your mind must be the judge and not the news papers or media.
If some one tells you a lie would you believe it immediately?
yes Chinese
I also have planted some oil seeds in my backyard
life is full of strange things, QDCLover
HR strange but I agree with you as well on your last point. They should not be afraid of discussion and it is ignorance.
Assuming there are 2 billion muslims,i love assumptions
lotta rich oil syeds are marrying white women thus converting them too
Yes
Threats, shut down, refuse to discuss...etc, these are all different faces of ignorance.
When you stand on solid grounds, and when you are holding one of the richest books of information in human history (the Quran), you should be eager to debate, discuss, provide logic & evidence, convince, and win.
560602, whether it is the right religion is matter of opinion. Assuming there are 2 billion muslims, that leaves 5 billion that would disagree with you!
BE very true and each has their own voice but unfortunatley debate for some is not allowed and threats are used to shut down such debates. This is not healthy for any society for people to live in fear, especially of those that are supposed to share the same beleifs as you
it is not matter to impress islam for marriage purpose.
but reality is Islam it is the right and last religion that Allah revealed to his Slaves.
we live to worship Allah, and we will get the rewards in hereafter.
and notice you to understand between Islam and Muslim.
Islam is the religion to the human and its a complete religion and can guide you what ever u want.
Muslim is the person/people who flow and believe the Islam religion.
So please learn Islam and Muslim as well. so then you will be out of the dark.
Allahu Akbar
"Among the speakers invited to attend included Muslim scientists, imams who have promoted the compatibility of Islam and evolution as well as those who preach a form of Islamic creationism."
This shows that there are all sorts of Muslims. Same as any other religion.
just now SA told People in Europe and in USA like to read so when some un pleasent things happen in the name of Islam
and QDC proved it :)
YES, QDCLover...another case of ignorance.
Ignorance is the worst enemy of Islam
well-said, both of you, SA & Babu
and here is what drives people from Islam in Europe
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/debate-on-islam-and-evolution-has-to-be-called-off-after-revolt-by-student-societies-8418022.html
Islam is not gaining people r gaining and following the right path
People in Europe and in USA like to read so when some un pleasent things happen in the name of Islam, some European and American will start to read about Islam and will know the truth, and for those who are interested to clarify things related to the points discussed in this post they can try the following link
www.islamhouse.com
The above website has more than 40 languages
You are right, SA
But still, it is nice to know that Islam is gaining more & more "white British women" :-)
Guys at the end the one who knows what is in their heart and judge is God.
The catholic also insist on this else you can not marry in a Catholic Church..:( Tony Blair is a good example..:)
"Become a muslim "to marry someone and then enjoying a bacon sandwhich with me, drinking beer and not fasting during Ramadan lol cldnt he or she eat the same while in their own religion
As you said, there are real coverts and fake converts.
I also know a professed Atheist who turned to prayer when things got a little tough in his life ...
It takes all sorts to make this world go round.
It seems only the Jews and Muslims insist on conversion, it is not so prelevant in other faiths and a lot of it is pointless conversion.
Become a muslim to marry someone and then enjoying a bacon sandwhich with me, drinking beer and not fasting during Ramadan. Sometimes it seems just a numbers game so some religious figure can say we have more people in our club than in yours.
I understand why they do it, they feel in love and rather than alienate his or her side of the family they opt for the easy life.
Like I said I know others who converted because they wanted to so its not all fake conversions.
they dont convert they revert to their original religion
I second QDC on this one he is right, there are number of people (female in particular) who convert for the convenience rather than choice! But then its their choice anyway!
So it is a personal choice
You don't get my point. I know white British women that converted because they thought it was right for them. It's their choice. I also know a number who converted out of convienence due to marriage. The pressure usually comes from the husbands family that she has to be muslim to marry their son.
I also know many men that converted due to marriage but are as much practising muslims as I am.
mean that the British women are Stubid?
I personally do not think so.
QDCLover
I am not saying that there is any pressure involved.
I am simply saying:
A white British woman finds out that these muslim men are so decent and honest when it comes to relations and family issues that she becomes interested in them and in their religion so she decides to convert, becomes one of them, and marries one of them
How does one convert due to "marriage of family based pressures" ?
Yes it would be interesting to break it down to those that converted because of faith based reasons and those that converted due to marriage and family based pressures.
is this an indication that white British women are finding out that men with Muslim background are more decent and secure ro be connected with, than white British men, and this is why they are converting in order to get married to the Muslims?
Rise of convert Islam in Europe
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2007/09/the-rise-of-convert-islam-in-europe/
"The number of converts to Islam in the UK has nearly doubled in the last decade, with over half of them being white females, a new study has found.
The report by Kevin Brice of Swansea University shows that the number of people converting to Islam has risen from about 60,000 in 2001 to about 100,000 in 2010.
The publication, entitled A Minority within a Minority: A Report on Converts to Islam in the United Kingdom, was based on three surveys, one of which found 56 per cent of respondents to be white British and 62 per cent female.
Published on Tuesday on behalf of Faith Matters, a UK charity, the report stated that there have been 5,200 conversions to Islam in the last year alone."
source for full report:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2011/01/201115141940879721.html
lol tahsin ;)
QDC u can keep on waiting then :)
rofl
Slave girl. Do Carrefore do them? Or are they cheaper in the souk?
oh dear!
is the Cristianity bible accept the guy marriage?
do you thing guys is a marriage? not at all it is abusing humanitity and gender
so shame to hear that.
tah I don't see my comment as funny, no child when conceived has a religion. It is only imposed later through indoctrination.
Thanks for the clarification on Saffers Xena :) saying that there are more Saffa's in London than he middleast :) my neck of the woods in London they are plenty of Saffa shops :)
will only marry a couple if they are both Saffers:-(
Nationalist pratts;-p
Are Chinese classed as "whites" ?
there is white, off-white, and yellow
ROFL !
Chinese
maybe you are color-blind
go to Lulu, Najada Market, Gold Souq, industrial area...etc and tell me about the colors you see
so finally the invaders GOT invaded by foreignors and people from commonwealth English speaking countries :)
middle east now has more whites than arabas
every thread is predictable here on QL.
Just mention Religion, Gender, and orientation and bam it goes :)
minus some of the comments, quite interesting read!
britexpat
clregymen will LOVE this legistlation....but the chior boys will be screwed
Finally we Brits are Religious Through and Through even if we fail to admit it, We would be turned unpatriotic if we did not believe in our National Anthem "God Save the Queen..
Isn't that the way it should be Uk?
Miss Mimi the face of UK is changing, I remember when I was in Primary School, we used to have Morning Prayer in the Assembly and we were never taught about any other religion, but now! there are no more kumbaya's (unless its a CoE school) in the morning and you get a day off for most religious holidays!
Mimi, let's get out of here.Predictable, boring, uninformed and plain stupid.
good news for the priest !
Gays can only marry in a church if the church agrees. Otherwise they get married at a court.
Hajji gay marriage isn't going to be passed in the UK for at least 18 more months.
There are moves afoot to legalise Gay marriage in church..
yes haji they follow Gayism and worship lady gaga
Do gays in the UK, marry in a church?
Do they follow a disorganized religion?
No idea, either way couldn't get married at any of those. I know South African doesn't.
tahsinmim, before you continue to contribute to the thread and QL in general, you may want to resaerch the subject talked about first.....
I know a Christian and Muslim Pinoy getting married in the Phil Embassy..:)
Plus Indian Embassy also holds Civil Ceremonies for their citizens and I think the German and French Embassy does the same as well as the American Embassy?
and marriage :O(
No one tahsinmim, atheists don't believe in sin.
"Then who will pray for his sins"
I thought that athiests have no sins....no?
So they're agnostic. Either way UK the world is moving away from organized religion.
Miss Mimi most of the people who are classifying them as non-religious do not necessary say that they don't believe in God but they are just not bother to be religious!
"Buried in the statistics, changing social mores were writ large. The number of married people fell below 50%; there were 400,000 more single parents and 504,000 extra cohabiting unmarried couples."
The only places that will marry non-Muslims in Qatar UK are the British Embassy, the Anglican church and the Catholic church. Since neither of us are Catholic or British we were left with one option.
Exactly NM, a colleague of mine father just past away in Hong Kong and the family has agreed to cremate him in HK and take his ashes back to the UK for the rest of the family. He was an active member of the church in HK.
Never been to a funeral in a church UK. All the funeral's I've been to have been at funeral homes.
As for getting married in a church, there's loads of reasons atheists might choose to. They could be doing it to please there soon-to be spouse, parents, in-laws, or because it's the only place they can (like me).
It doesn't matter how many times an atheist goes to church, if they don't believe in God or the teachings of the religion, than they're atheist.
Britexpat you plonker I was the groom not the Bride!
UK, that's because graves are darn expensive!
To buy and to maintain.
do athiests have temples? where they can sit and drink tea/karak and not worship anybody?
Yes I second NM and more and more people are preferring to be Cremated (religious and non religious) and their ashes scattered in the Communal Burial Grounds!
Did you wear white ?
Tahsinmim, how is that different?
It just shows that people get married in a church for different reasons, religious and non religious.
tahsinmim, a funeral for an atheist is performed with a non religious ritual. He gets buried on a government/communal burial ground.
Miss Mimi its all to do with the colour of your passport and not having an Embassy here! But would the SA Embassy not marry you?
I got married in a Civil Ceremony Miss Mimi..:) but had my wedding party in the Church Hall..:)
tahsinmim, there is nothing strange about Miss Mimi's comment. For example, I lived in ?Saudi when I wanted to get married, Can't do it in Saudi unless one is Muslim, which I am not. The closest place was Dubai, but there one can get only married in church, not at a government office, like in , for example Europe.
So, I got married in church.
Or, people get married in church not to upset the family.
People do not have to be religious to get married in a church.
I thing people don't want to classified as Religious now a days, else you have the Jehovah witness knocking on your door :-) but when in the time of grief (funeral) or Happiness (marriage and Christening) people still flock to the church. Brits also flock in numbers to Churches for remembrance ceremonies ?
But when asked on a piece of paper they prefer to be classified as atheists ?
isnt this to be posted in religious teaching group
So, it was a Shotgun wedding :O(
You don't have to believe in religion to get married in a church. You could just like the church. Or you could have no other options. Like me :)
well-said, UKEngQatar
Classified as maybe, but personal opinion may differ.
Cultural Traditions and Religious traditions are two different things, celebrating Saint Andrews Days, Saint Patrick's day and St Georges days is cultural..:) getting married in a church even though you never been there is classified as Religious!
Just because you're atheist doesn't mean you can't take part in cultural traditions UK.
Miss Mimi, Lets face it the census is saying that people are not associating themselves with religion and in the Census declared to be non-religious, but in reality they are still having church weddings and celebrating xmas's and Easter in masses..:)
There will definitely be conversion, but I wonder how many of them are just for married harmony.
I said Atheism isn't a religion.
However, as a belief (or lack their of) system, it's growing faster than any of the religions.
I think it is both ways..Increase in immigirant population and conversion.
I agree that Atheism is on rise even in Muslim Society and countries.
Every child is born an atheist but in religious families they are forced to follow their parents religion.
Biggest Immigration population now is coming from Eastern Europe!
Atheism isn't a religion.
Khanan, they don't say it's through conversion though, and given the rise in immigrants I would say it has more to do with that.
However, atheism, by this census, is growing far faster than any of the religions.
and very thought pondering that Islam is the only religion is on rise.
Atheism in not a religion.
Atheism or Islam?
Muslims are still by far a minority compared to Christians and Atheists, and I know there was a campaign before the census to be honest regarding your religion.
I believe there are more "Muslims by name" than the practicing Muslims, specially in Britain.
Interesting reading. The daily Mail has been harping on about it.
the simple fact is that society is changing and becoming diverse. As far as religion is concerned, yes many are moving away from "practicing" Christianity. Having said that, i am sure that there are quite a few who are Muslims by name only. This is to be expected.