More Than Half In Uk Are Non-Religious, Suggests Survey

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41150792

I have been an Atheist all my adult life, so I am not remotely surprised by this. I have also worked on the BSA survey for 8 years and seen the percentage of people describe themselves as not religious grow over that time.

Anybody else surprised ?

[Sqad]

mikey

"Zacs....notice how quickly this thread has become an anti-Muslim thread ?"

No! where?

[Zacs-Master]

Mmm. 'Put away your statistics'. Yeah, let's just argue based on anecdotal evidence eh?

Mikey, it's a fact that marriage is rising. I'm not sure what time frame AOG or Sqad are referring to. Maybe they can clarify.

[mikey4444]

Zacs....rising a bit perhaps, but the trend since 1972 is down.

[Sqad]

Zacs...OK....I didn't think that my suggestion would interest you.

I have already answered your question re, marriages rising in my post above.....re."this is not the latest figures.....see the latest figures...2014-2017 ( I think)

[ummmm]

I wonder what the Spanish think of the ex pats??!!

[Zacs-Master]

AOG normSqad made no mention of a timeframe or trends. They simply assumed marriage rates were in decline. I simply proved they are, in recent years, not.

[Zacs-Master]

Sqad, I posted the latest (2014) figures which also show the trend is up.

[Sqad]

ummmm....I have never asked them.
There are some ExPats that fit in with Spanish customs and some that stick tightly with the expat community.
I CAN tell you what the majority of Spaniards think of UK holiday makers, if that is any help.

[Sqad]

Zacs.....
mikey thinks marriages are down, I think marriages are down (read my post re. statistics)AOG thinks they are down.....but you think that they are rising.
That is fine.

[mikey4444]

Now...... that would be interesting Sqad !

Let me have a guess......well-behaved, hardly ever drunk or disorderly and with a great deal of dignity and common sense perhaps ?

[Sqad]

mikey.......maybe! maybe! but i thought that this thread and my posts in particular was about the state of religion and latterly Islamisation of the West.
I maybe wrong.

[1ozzy]

//More Than Half In Uk Are Non-Religious//

Finally people are waking up to the fact that some unknown deity didn't created the world in six days then put his/her feet up on the seventh.

Praise the Lord
;-/

[Zacs-Master]

I don't THINK they are down. I provided evidence that they are on the increase which makes your and AOGs assumption that divorce stats are down because less people are getting married incorrect.

[Sqad]

OK Zacs.....

[mikey4444]

Sqad....this thread IS about the decline of religion in Britain, but has nothing whatsoever to do with the "Islamisation of the West"

If someone has decided to broaden the debate, then I suggest that they start another thread.

[Zacs-Master]

And your still not Gods dad....ok! ;-)

[Sqad]

mikey....I agree....I agree...BUT Islam IS a religion and should figure in this thread which IS about religion For Funks Sake it's your own thread.
Islamisation of the West (entered by me) should possibly been better posted as "Isalmisation of the UK"......for which i apologise.

[Sqad]

Zacs......LOL.....he could be.....because i have never met my father, I was born out of wedlock, a [email protected] I could be eh?

[1ozzy]

//And your still not Gods dad....ok! ;-)//

Yeah, right, that mad a lot of sense.

[jim360]

We're moving well off-topic here, but marriages were on the rise in 2013 after about four decades of falling. I'm not sure you should read anything into the short-term trend when the long-term is, indeed, that marriage rates are decreasing. (see figure 1a, ZM's link)

On the other hand, so what?