Majority of British people have no religion

The results from the most recent British Attitudes Survey are out. 52% of British people now identify as non-religious. For 18-34 year olds, only 36% have a religion.

Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/uk-secularism-on-rise-as-more-than-half-say-they-have-no-religion

Full report: http://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/british-social-attitudes-36/religion.aspx

As most people do not magically discover religion later in life, it is reasonable to assume the percentage of non-religious people will continue to increase in the future. Religious organisations are going to have to work on figuring out where they are going wrong or risk becoming increasingly irrelevant.

Afraid not, religion no matter what crowd, discriminates.

You talk about generalisations but then say 'the only darkness here is atheism' and agree with a fellow user that because China's government doesn't treat believers in its country well that must mean all atheists won't treat theists well.

I'd be wary of accusing someone of generalising.

Nope, I didn’t say that at all, the other user highlighted an exception, which was a good point, and one that clear to see. I additionally a lot more can be said, but didnt say anything beyond that.

On the other hand, you came out with a generalised statement, brushing all religious folk with a single stroke. I am not here to play games about semantics.

And yes, it is darkness, whether you like it or not.

And why is it darkness?

Nope, I didn’t say that at all, the other user highlighted an exception, which was a good point, and one that is clear to see. I additionally said a lot more can be said, but didnt say anything beyond that.

On the other hand, you came out with a generalised statement, brushing all religious folk with a single stroke. I am not here to play games about semantics.

And yes, it is darkness, whether you like it or not.

Because it isn't Islam, of course!

The true light can only be seen if you stop people making apostates of themselves, if you make sure everyone pays money to the religious authorities, and if you embark on a seriies of supposedly defensive wars in order to spread the nonsense.

Dreaming of an Islamic Republic, are we?

Yes, indeed. Hit the nail on the head.

everyone submits to something. i choose our creator Allah.

The lack of evidence points to Atheism.

But can you imagine if detectives behaved this way? Imagine, after investigating a crime scene, a detective were to conclude “I do not accept that any crime occurred here.” When asked why, the detective replied, “I do not find any of the alleged evidence convincing.” The next natural question is, “What sort of evidence would you have expected that you don’t find?” Imagine if the detective were to reply, “I have no idea!” Would you have any confidence in this detective’s ability? I know I wouldn’t. Being able to discern what potential evidence would look like is the first prerequisite to investigating a crime scene, and any detective who can’t do that is not worth hiring.

The same is true for skeptics. Anyone claiming to be a skeptic who cannot tell you what evidence for God might look like is no real skeptic at all. They are just ignorant, and they refuse to accept the responsibility for their own ignorance.

I actually think young people are highly religious, they just follow ideologies that aren't called 'religions'

For example the red-pilled right wing groups are incredibly religious to me. They have their tennants that you have to follow, material you have to read, their preachers you listen to, jordan peterson for example.. whose speachers are increadbly similar to that of a religious preacher. Being red-pilled is basically like converting to a new religion. The core tenant is the belief in the individual above all else, and whether their is a god or not makes no difference, because the individual is holy entity in effect.

Equally on the far-left you have the exact same thing within feminist/LGBT circles. They have their comandments, their leaders and preachers, things you can't say, ways you must live... people who should be condemed etc. Their 'god' is equality. Equality will solve all problems, and is a holy thing that should always be worked towards all the time.. if equality is reached the world will be great.

For me, I think that there was a genuine decline in religious following among the boomers and gen X. But millenials and gen z are now finding that without religion there is a hole in their lives and a lack of meaning... for the boomers+X, they got away with being less religious because their parents, grandparents and society as a whole was still overwhelmingly religious, so they recieved the bennifits, whilst being able to rebel themselves. But for the new generations, they are being raised without religion, in societies that are also empty of religion, and they find it empty and meaningless.. so they are going out and finding new 'religions', its just those religions aren't the traditional ones, and we don't call them 'religions'.

what do you want it replaced by? Atheism? Or Islam?

Nice, so religious folk are not educated nor rational?

Religions generally worship things unproven to exist.

Just lol at this gold-plated nonsense. You'd never make a detective.

You're either a troll and therefore an idiot, or actually an idiot and therefore an idiot.

Ah, another educated and rational atheist.

Please see the post right before yours. I realise you may not have seen it as you were typing.

Try setting up atheism as a null hypothesis H0 (although from the standpoint of overall human history it's the exact opposite), and set a suitable confidence level for accepting or rejecting this H0. Then run a suitable test and see if the result falls in the 'critical region'.