| As someone else pointed out, you're over-negating establishmentarianism. But it doesn't matter anyway - the UK is a pretty atheist society and getting more so... Those who self-describe as "atheist" in the census: 2001: 15.9% 2011: 25.7% 2021: 37.8% In Scotland, figures are higher with a majority of the population now describing themselves as atheist (51.1%) And these figures are only for people who describe themselves as atheists, not just agnostic. The number of people saying they believe "in god" was only 16%, and expanding that to "any god" bumped it to 27%, according to a YouGov poll in 2020. Also, the most irreligious government ever is the most-recent one, with 40% of MPs opting to make a secular affirmation of service rather than swear a religious oath. Basically the god-squad is done in the UK, it's just a matter of time - which is odd for a place with an official state religion, as opposed to somewhere like the USA which is officially non-affiliated with any religion, but has "christians" who wouldn't recognise Jesus unless he was white, toting an uzi, and telling them to give him money now to get a great afterlife - "prosperity gospel" my arse. (Figures from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_Kingd...) |