Number of godless congregations growing across the Western world
The steady decline of religion in the Western world is being mirrored by the growth of so-called atheist churches, statistics show.
Majority of British people say they have no religion Atheists now outnumber Christians in England and
Wales
According to the Washington DC-based Pew Research Center, the religiously unaffiliated are now the second-largest religious group in North America and most of Europe.
A study by theology professor Stephen Bullivant, from St Mary’s University in London, found that more than half of the UK’s population does not identify as religious. “The rise of the non-religious is arguably the story of British religious history over the past half-century or so,” Bullivant says in the introduction to his report, titled The ‘No Religion’ Population of Britain.
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What is Atheism? Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its
most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.
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