RE: Atheism on the uprise?
September 7, 2015 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2015 at 1:57 pm by Regina.)
I'm from the UK, and I feel "passively religious" or "irreligious" best describes the average British person. We're a country with a Christian heritage and you can still feel the presence of Christianity there in the background, but nobody really practices or takes it seriously anymore. That's the overwhelming majority of British "Christians". Hardly anyone under 30 regularly goes to church, it's unusual if you do.
I still wouldn't use the word "atheist" to describe most British people though. To me "atheist" has connotations of being actively against political religion and very conscious of your lack of belief, which most Brits aren't.
I still wouldn't use the word "atheist" to describe most British people though. To me "atheist" has connotations of being actively against political religion and very conscious of your lack of belief, which most Brits aren't.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
