Majority of people in Scotland have no religion, census shows
A majority of people in Scotland say they do not follow any religion – the first time secular attitudes have overtaken religious identity.
Data from the latest Scottish census, carried out in 2022, shows 51% of the population reported they belonged to no religion – a sharp increase on the 36.7% in 2011.
The Church of Scotland, the once-dominant Presbyterian church, which is now holding its annual general assembly in Edinburgh, was the most heavily affected by the surge in secularism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...nsus-shows
A majority of people in Scotland say they do not follow any religion – the first time secular attitudes have overtaken religious identity.
Data from the latest Scottish census, carried out in 2022, shows 51% of the population reported they belonged to no religion – a sharp increase on the 36.7% in 2011.
The Church of Scotland, the once-dominant Presbyterian church, which is now holding its annual general assembly in Edinburgh, was the most heavily affected by the surge in secularism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...nsus-shows
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"
