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FredisDead

(392 posts)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 09:47 PM Mar 2012

Britain won't be Christian nation by 2030 [View all]

http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5896555

Britain may no longer be a Christian country by 2030 as the number of non-believers is set to overtake the number of Christians, a media report said.

Christianity is losing more than half a million believers every year, while the count of atheists and agnostics is going up by almost 750,000 annually, the Daily Mail reported.

Research by the House of Commons Library found that while Christianity has declined, other religions have seen sharp increases.

In the last six years, the number of Muslims has surged by 37 percent to 2.6 million; Hindus by 43 percent and Buddhists by 74 percent. But the number of Sikhs and Jewish believers fell slightly, according to the Mail Friday.
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The first domino to fall? laconicsax Mar 2012 #1
The numbers are probably worse for Christianity then they appear by those numbers ShadowLiberal Mar 2012 #2
It's better than that intaglio Mar 2012 #5
I've been watching QI lately. progressoid Mar 2012 #3
Damn. I'm jealous. Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #4
They sent all their religious nutjobs here to colonize the America... white_wolf Mar 2012 #6
... Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #7
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