du blog de Damian Thompson: déchristianisation galopante de la jeunesse britannique, comme de celle de France: mais chez eux il y a des questions religieuses au recensement; Il faut plus que ces évidences pour que les conférences épiscopales remettent en cause 40 ou 60 ans de pastorale 'Liberal"!

From Saturday's Daily Telegraph

The results of the 2011 Census, published last year, were pretty devastating for Christianity, indicating that it will be a minority religion in Britain by 2018. This week we were given a more detailed breakdown of the figures. I took one look at them and thought: OMG.

That’s short for “Oh My God”, in case you didn’t know. It’s an acronym popularised by young people on Twitter. Young people who, increasingly, don’t believe in the God they’re invoking.

For the first time, the proportion of under-25s who don’t describe themselves as even nominal Christians has risen above 50 per cent. Also, the new breakdown shows that the rate of decline in British Christianity has been masked by the presence of 1.2 million foreign believers in this country. Take them out of the picture, and we can see that home-grown Christianity has shrunk by 15 per cent in just a decade. To quote the demographer Prof David Coleman of Oxford University, “It is difficult to see whether any other change in the census could have been remotely as big.”

Take a bow, Anglican and Catholic bishops. I don’t know if the British Humanist Association hands out awards, but you certainly deserve one – a statuette of Polly Toynbee, say, for untiring efforts to water down the Christian message to the point where it’s not worth believing in.

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