54% of Uk males non-religious or agnostic.

[downbeatplumb]

But only 34% of women.

This tallies with my experience where women feel they are more "spiritual" than men.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30910342

The figures, published by the UCL Institute of Education, were analysed by David Voas, professor of population studies at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex.

Sixty per cent of the women in the study believed in life after death but only 35% of the men.

[Norman Humann]

Stop making me want to move to UK. I don't have the cash.

[Natachan]

I hear you need civil engineers there. It just keeps getting more and more attractive.

[dyresand]

Hey its better than murica at this point.

[watchamadoodle]

I was watching Trinity Broadcast Network with my mother, and they said church attendance in UK is 6%.
According to this poll 40% of men and 60% of women are NOT atheist/agnostic. Is the low church attendance of 6% a result of Christian laziness or is it a result of competing religions like Islam?

[I_am_not_mafia]

I was watching Trinity Broadcast Network with my mother, and they said church attendance in UK is 6%.
According to this poll 40% of men and 60% of women are NOT atheist/agnostic. Is the low church attendance of 6% a result of Christian laziness or is it a result of competing religions like Islam?

People will say they are Christian but they won't be regular church goers. They're default Christians in that they only think about it for specific situations such as filling in forms, weddings etc.

[Norman Humann]

Of those who were religious, 71% of those who described themselves as evangelical Christians had no doubts about God's existence.
However, only 33% of those who said they were Roman Catholics had no doubts.

I'm honestly surprised. I'd think it would be at least 70%. Damn it, UK. Even catholics there are less catholic. How do you do it?

Among Anglicans and Methodists, the equivalent figure was 16%

I wondered why we don't see much Anglicans and Methodists around here trying to save everyone.

Some 88% of Muslims in the survey said they knew God really existed and had no doubts.

No surprise there.

[Mudhammam]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVc1ab2RcMs

[FreeTony]

These are also figures for 44/45 year old people only (born in 1970). I think the figures drop amongst the younger generation.

People will say they are Christian but they won't be regular church goers. They're default Christians in that they only think about it for specific situations such as filling in forms, weddings etc.

My parents would describe themselves as Christians in the census, as you describe, but they have zero interest in religion.

[Regina]

These are also figures for 44/45 year old people only (born in 1970). I think the figures drop amongst the younger generation.

People will say they are Christian but they won't be regular church goers. They're default Christians in that they only think about it for specific situations such as filling in forms, weddings etc.

My parents would describe themselves as Christians in the census, as you describe, but they have zero interest in religion.

This is the overwhelming majority of British "Christians" tbh.

If I was going to make a rough estimate, I'd go as far as to say less than 10% of British "Protestants" actually practice. It's only the very elderly in my experience. I'd even say among the 18-30 year old population the statistic drops to a vanishingly small amount. I don't know anyone my age who "goes to church", mosque is a different story.

In the UK, as I said on another thread last night, it's the minority religions people take more seriously, especially Islam and Catholicism. Those together probably outnumber the serious Protestants in the UK.