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Areat t1_iyc117u wrote

Reply to comment by Fit-Satisfaction7831 in For The First Time, Less Than Half Of UK's Population Is Christian: Report by khushraho

Are we so sure it's the fall of religion in general and not just Christianity? Would be interesting to see the stats of under 25 years old. Correct me if I'm wrong, but atheism is still mainly a white thing. Not only, but mainly. And last year census had white pupils only being 28% of the total in London.

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PM-ME-PMS-OF-THE-PM t1_iyc9pyz wrote

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but atheism is still mainly a white thing.

I feel like it's more of a Western thing than a colour of skin thing. Religion seems to thrive in poverty and become gradually less and less prevalent the higher standards of living become.

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philman132 t1_iycebml wrote

The largest majority atheist country on earth is China, who are usually not considered white

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Areat t1_iycys13 wrote

State enforced atheism mean nothing. Ex USSR countries reverted hard to orthodox christianity and islam once it fell.

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Gotisdabest t1_iycc3qn wrote

Atheism is mostly a thing of the rich and well educated. Due to a long series of socioeconomic factors, those happen to mostly be white people. As we see massive growth in third world economies their religions too, will drop very quickly.

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TheElusiveEllie t1_iycsn12 wrote

I read their comment differently. There may or may not always be religion, but each of these INDIVIDUAL religions will die out tens of thousands of years from now, for one reason or another. The ancient religions of the past are dead, so too will be the current religions, and one day the religions of the distant future will die out as well.

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magicsheepcreations t1_iyc22ar wrote

The stats did show a rise in belief in other religions but the news report lumped stuff together and talked about a rise in numbers rather than percentages. Felt like the typical racist reporting with skewed data so harder to get a fair idea

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