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Religious affiliation (%) in the UK according to the censuses 2001–2011

  Christianity
  Islam
  Other religions
  Not religious

See that blue line, that's people identifying as Christian going down by 10% in ten years that seems to be the definition of a religion dying out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_i...ed_Kingdom

Lower percentage doesn't = dying

There was a similar conversation on here about two weeks ago about how it has been dying in the United States, but that wasn't the case.  The overall number of "religious" was increasing, while the percentage was decreasing.  That has more to do with changes in population density and changes in other categories. For example, if you get a 1% increase with atheists, you're going to lose that percentage everywhere else.  You percentage increased, but there are still more people adhering to Christianity, Islam, Etc...

If I have a iceberg and 10 penguins are sitting on it, the population is 100% penguin.  If I add 8 more penguins, and 2 polar bears, the population is now 90% penguin and 10% polar bear.  The population increased, the number of penguins increased, but the percentage of penguins dropped.  As we add more variables, those percentages will continue to change, but that doesn't mean the penguins are going to end up at 0 percent.  That is unless you ask the polar bears and it's dinner time, then the result may change.

As I said before percent isn't the only indicator that Christianity is dying. Churches are closing across the country and church attendance has plummeted.

As I said its dying.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio...d-low.html

Attendance at services has plunged to its lowest level ever as the Archbishop of Canterbury warned it was battling to maintain its place in an increasingly “anti-Christian” culture.
Official figures – based on an annual pew count – show that only 1.4 per cent of the population of England now attend Anglican services on a typical Sunday morning.
Even the Church’s preferred “weekly” attendance figures, which include those at mid-week or extra services, has slipped below one million for the first time ever.

http://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/church-att...1980-2015/

This graph shows church attendance has dropped from over 500,000 to about 300,000 almost a 50% drop in people going to church in the UK since 1980 and that is with a larger overall population and many of the immigrants being from religious countries like Poland. So you can say that for people born in Britain the drop would be sharper.

In my immediate circle of people I know, I know of one Christian.