Losing our religion: Christians poised to become a minority
The number of Christians in England and Wales is close to falling below half of the population for the first time, with a large increase in the number who have no religious faith, figures show.
The ONS warned that the data sample for the 2019 figures was much smaller than for the population-wide census, stressing that it would be necessary to wait for results from the 2021 census for a more reliable comparison with 2011 figures.
Just 10.6 per cent of the population follow a religion other than Christianity, but this rises to more than 25 per cent in London. Across England and Wales, 51 per cent of people are Christian, 5.7 per cent are Muslim, 1.7 per cent are Hindu, 0.7 per cent are Sikh, 0.6 per cent are Jewish, 0.4 per cent are Buddhist, and 1.5 per cent cited another religion, while 38.4 per cent cited no religion.
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The number of Christians in England and Wales is close to falling below half of the population for the first time, with a large increase in the number who have no religious faith, figures show.
The ONS warned that the data sample for the 2019 figures was much smaller than for the population-wide census, stressing that it would be necessary to wait for results from the 2021 census for a more reliable comparison with 2011 figures.
Just 10.6 per cent of the population follow a religion other than Christianity, but this rises to more than 25 per cent in London. Across England and Wales, 51 per cent of people are Christian, 5.7 per cent are Muslim, 1.7 per cent are Hindu, 0.7 per cent are Sikh, 0.6 per cent are Jewish, 0.4 per cent are Buddhist, and 1.5 per cent cited another religion, while 38.4 per cent cited no religion.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/losin...-5mzf6dw99
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
