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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 22, 2015 at 9:08 am
(January 22, 2015 at 3:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Awesome. Religion is on its last legs round here.
I recently spent several Sundays mornings driving my disabled cousin around town (UK midlands pop. 90,000) to find a new church for her - she fell out with her old one. The main impressions I got from viewing several congregations was
1) hardly anyone there - most was about 50, worst was about 20, these being buildings that could comfortably accommodate several hundred.
2) Old. At least half of all congregations were retirement age - ranging from recently retired to decrepit.
3) Women. Outnumbering men about 2:1
Counting every church attendee on an average Sunday in my town you would be lucky to reach 500 in a town of 90,000.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 22, 2015 at 9:11 am
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(January 22, 2015 at 9:08 am)pgrimes15 Wrote: (January 22, 2015 at 3:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Awesome. Religion is on its last legs round here.
I recently spent several Sundays mornings driving my disabled cousin around town (UK midlands pop. 90,000) to find a new church for her - she fell out with her old one. The main impressions I got from viewing several congregations was
1) hardly anyone there - most was about 50, worst was about 20, these being buildings that could comfortably accommodate several hundred.
2) Old. At least half of all congregations were retirement age - ranging from recently retired to decrepit.
3) Women. Outnumbering men about 2:1
Counting every church attendee on an average Sunday in my town you would be lucky to reach 500 in a town of 90,000.
Regards
Grimesy
Your observation is pretty much the norm for most areas of (At least) England and Wales.
The cohort effect has thoroughly dismantled the religious landscape. As one generation loses their religion, their offspring continue by not being introduced to it, and so on.
IF we think about things like the sexual revolution in the 1960s, where people actively challenged the religious hegemony on so called 'moral decency', it's no surprise that the majority of people now going to church are people from that generation who rejected the swinging 60s ethos.
A dying breed, literally.
What is most surprising about this story is that 'faith' is still elevated to privilege status here in the UK in a lot of governmental discourse, despite the fact that more than half the population will not be religious by the next decade. I suspect this is more to do with containing extremism than it is appealing to disaffected congregations.
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 22, 2015 at 9:13 am
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Nice. I think religion in England is a chicken wandering aimlessly around, not aware that its head has been cut off. Just less sophisticated.
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 22, 2015 at 3:46 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 3:26 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: (January 21, 2015 at 10:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Neither do I and I already live here.
That's because you live in the UK.
It's more that I've been ruled officially unable to work due to severe depression with suicidal tendencies. The allowances I get are generous, but the bills are slightly more so.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 22, 2015 at 4:44 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 3:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (January 22, 2015 at 3:26 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: That's because you live in the UK.
It's more that I've been ruled officially unable to work due to severe depression with suicidal tendencies. The allowances I get are generous, but the bills are slightly more so.
Psychology is another area where the UK is more progressive than the USA IMO.
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 22, 2015 at 10:36 pm
(January 21, 2015 at 10:06 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (January 21, 2015 at 10:00 pm)psychoslice Wrote: Men will think more about things, and women will be more emotional,
I generally do both.
Yes I do to, but most men don't, or are not game to.
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 23, 2015 at 9:54 am
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(January 22, 2015 at 10:36 pm)psychoslice Wrote: (January 21, 2015 at 10:06 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I generally do both.
Yes I do to, but most men don't, or are not game to.
Women are allowed to express their emotions more than men but that doesn't mean men are less emotional
Churches provide social support for many people and my guess is that is why more women remain in church. Among my religious friends it is usually the wife who wants to find a church even though both spouses believe equally in god.
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 23, 2015 at 10:10 am
Ya see, this is why I can wander around town with my blatantly atheist t-shirts on and get high fives and nods of agreement and not a single voice of objection. I wouldn't dare do the same in somewhere like Texas.
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 23, 2015 at 11:50 am
(January 23, 2015 at 10:10 am)Darwinian Wrote: Ya see, this is why I can wander around town with my blatantly atheist t-shirts on and get high fives and nods of agreement and not a single voice of objection. I wouldn't dare do the same in somewhere like Texas.
Well sure. You shipped most of your religious crazies here long ago. Thanks for rubbing it in. 
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RE: 54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.
January 23, 2015 at 11:51 am
I just found a couple more, what's your address again? :p
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