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by rayiner 2138 days ago
> Surely not a religious saint when religiosity is declining and sainthood is suspect.

Are you talking about the UK specifically? The world as a whole is more religious than ever: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/27/religion-why-is...

> And while the religiously unaffiliated currently make up 16% of the global population, only about 10% of the world’s newborns were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers between 2010 and 2015.

> China has seen a huge religious revival in recent years and some predict it will have the world’s largest Christian population by 2030. The number of Chinese Protestants has grown by an average of 10 % annually since 1979, to between 93 million and 115 million, according to one estimate. There are reckoned to be another 10-12 million Catholics.