RE: UK - Christianity declining, Atheism rising, but so is Islam...
June 11, 2015 at 7:13 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 7:19 am by Mr Greene.)
Christianity is dead in the UK.
How the collapse presents itself varies from denomination to denomination but all are now in the terminal phases of the process.
Anglicans and Catholics are closing parish churches and falling back on the cathedrals like the iconoclasts they are.
Methodists are abandoning their "moral" positions regarding gambling and surviving churches hold weekly bingo sessions to maintain income.
Baptists imploded and went through some of schism with more hard-line elements forcing moderates out and establishing new churches which for a while gave a facade of growth before economic reality hit and the new churches are dropping like flies.
Islam presents something of a difficult picture due to the threats from family members for apostasy which are difficult to escape from in the ghetto conditions which muslims tend to form in cities. Once individuals move out of those conditions apostasy is as rife as with christianity.
The question is how to break up those ghettos.
How the collapse presents itself varies from denomination to denomination but all are now in the terminal phases of the process.
Anglicans and Catholics are closing parish churches and falling back on the cathedrals like the iconoclasts they are.
Methodists are abandoning their "moral" positions regarding gambling and surviving churches hold weekly bingo sessions to maintain income.
Baptists imploded and went through some of schism with more hard-line elements forcing moderates out and establishing new churches which for a while gave a facade of growth before economic reality hit and the new churches are dropping like flies.
Islam presents something of a difficult picture due to the threats from family members for apostasy which are difficult to escape from in the ghetto conditions which muslims tend to form in cities. Once individuals move out of those conditions apostasy is as rife as with christianity.
The question is how to break up those ghettos.
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