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Decline of Christianity (in England)
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Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 1:32 pm (This post was last modified: December 23, 2011 at 1:32 pm by Welsh cake.)
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm
lol @ 70% Christian.

How many ever go to church? 5% tops is my estimate and i think i'm being very generous. They just say they're Christian because they get put on the spot. During the last census my mother in law asked what we are, so i asked her 'what are you?'. She looked perplexed and replied 'Christian?', so i asked 'do you belive in God or Jesus?' She said, 'no'. So i said either put Atheist or no religion.

It's convenient to say Christian even if you are not.
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 1:44 pm
I think another poll put xtians at about 44% which seems more like it.

70% is embarrassingly high for a secular state like the UK. They must have selected most of the fuckwits.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm
(December 23, 2011 at 1:44 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: 70% is embarrassingly high for a secular state like the UK.
The UK isn't secular.

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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Yeh we are a Christian nation run by a constitutional monarchy and th head of the monarchy is the head of church.

But we are quite secular for a religious nation, guess it's because we generally don't give two fucks, or just don't think about it.
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 2:14 pm
(December 23, 2011 at 1:51 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: Yeh we are a Christian nation run by a constitutional monarchy and th head of the monarchy is the head of church.

Come on, no nation can be more secular than a christian nation that blurs the line between religion, government and carnival sideshow.
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 2:52 pm
i think christianity is more of a tradition here than anything els, we are quite a conservative traditionalist nation/
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Regular Church attendance is down to about 10% according to the TearFund stats. The 'Christian tradition' we seem to adopt is quite laughable in a way.
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 23, 2011 at 6:08 pm
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RE: Decline of Christianity (in England)
December 24, 2011 at 1:06 am
I have been thinking a lot recently about why countries and or cultures leave their faith. It seems that the ones that keep their faith the longest have historically had a less oppressive form of that religion.

What do you'all think?
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise

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