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<\/a>The study contends in 2030 Britain will officially be less Christian than secular<\/a><\/strong>. [Bad use of stats, but interesting.]<\/p>\nThe march of secularism means Britain may no longer be a Christian country in just 20 years, a report said yesterday. <\/span><\/p>\n
If trends continue, the number of non-believers is set to overtake the number of Christians by 2030. <\/span><\/p>\n
Christianity is losing more than half a million believers every year, while the count of atheists and agnostics is going up by almost 750,000 annually\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n
The findings help explain the increasingly forceful warnings from people of faith about the state of religion in Britain. <\/span><\/p>\n
Last week a group of MPs and peers \u2013 Christians in Parliament \u2013 claimed public policy was promoting \u2018unacceptable\u2019 discrimination against Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n
Yesterday the group\u2019s chairman, former Tory justice minister Gary Streeter, warned that believers were having their faith \u2018steamrollered\u2019 by a \u2018secular and hostile state\u2019.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nHe said many were facing restrictions on their ability to practise their religion in public.<\/span><\/p>\n
Cabinet minister Baroness Warsi also recently attacked \u2018militant secularism\u2019 and said the Church should continue to have influence over government policy.<\/span><\/p>\n
Earlier this week campaigners said Christianity was being sidelined after it emerged that a council-run crematorium in Bath was to remove a glass window engraved with a four-foot cross to make it more suitable for other religions.<\/span><\/p>\n
Secularists argue that Christians should no longer have privileged access in Parliament when the number who believe in God is declining so sharply.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nResearchers came to their conclusion after studying the Labour Force Survey, which is carried out every year by the Office for National Statistics.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nIt is the most authoritative survey because of its regularity and its large sample size of 50,000.<\/span><\/p>\n
It found that in 2010 there were around 41.1million Christians in Britain \u2013 down 7.6 per cent over the past six years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nThere were around 13.4million non-believers, up 49 per cent over the same period.<\/span><\/p>\n
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