Are that many British people still religious though?
I mean, having grown up in the UK, I'd say probably not. If you go up to any random 18-24 year old British person in the street and ask "do you go to church regularly?" I would bet only a vanishingly small amount would actually say "yes". I think the UK is "Christian" in name only these days. In fact I think it sounds weird when I hear British accents having heated debates about religion like Americans do.
It's only really with minority religions in the UK (especially Catholicism, Islam and Judaism) that I've seen any kind of real commitment too. The Protestant Church seems dead.
I mean, having grown up in the UK, I'd say probably not. If you go up to any random 18-24 year old British person in the street and ask "do you go to church regularly?" I would bet only a vanishingly small amount would actually say "yes". I think the UK is "Christian" in name only these days. In fact I think it sounds weird when I hear British accents having heated debates about religion like Americans do.
It's only really with minority religions in the UK (especially Catholicism, Islam and Judaism) that I've seen any kind of real commitment too. The Protestant Church seems dead.
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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
