Is the UK Overthrowing the Christian Basis of the West?

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Is the UK Overthrowing the Christian Basis of the West?

by Giulio Meotti
December 18, 2017 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11425/britain-post-christian


    As the progressive publication Prospect asked, "if we are no longer a Christian country, what are we?"

    Christians in the UK are on course to be in the minority by the middle of the century.

    What defines Europe are its boundaries – not physical but cultural. Without its culture, Europe could not be distinguished from the rest of the world. And the pillar of this culture is based on the Judeo-Christian heritage and values.

British Christian publications have been wondering if we are witnessing the "extinction of Christianity in Egypt", where the Christian faithful have suffered persecution and terror attacks at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. Christian leaders also seem to be wondering if Christianity will be "extinct within a generation" in the UK, where religious people enjoy total freedom of worship and faith.

Read more at: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11425/britain-post-christian

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From the article:
"A quarter of the British rural parishes now have fewer than 10 regular members of the faithful on Sunday. There are no more children in 25% of the Church of England's congregations, as new figures have just shown. On average, nine children attended each church service across all Anglican churches in 2016. Generally speaking, churchgoers have dwindled in the UK by 34,000 in just one year."

The collapse of Judeo/Christianity in Britain (as well as the rest of Western Europe) creates a moral vacuum, an "emptiness". But as in nature, vacuums don't exist long before -something- rushes in to fill them.

"In Europe, the UK is now leading the same process. Britain is living through "the biggest religious transition since the Reformation of the 16th Century", according to Linda Woodhead, professor of the sociology of religion at Lancaster University. In 2000, Anglicans were 30% of the population. Half of them have disappeared in just seventeen years. The number of those who belong to the Church of England fell below 15%, including just 3% of English young people ages 18-24. Writing in the Spectator, Damian Thompson wondered if "the Church of England is dying". Churchgoing dropped by 50% also in Scotland. Another report revealed that more than half the British population has no religion at all."

That "half" that "has no religion at all" will be GETTING "religion" before too much longer, whether they like the idea, or not.
But the new religion they'll be forced to accept ain't gonna be Christianity.

"According to a new poll, a total of 41% of British millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, said that the UK has "no specific religious identity". As the progressive publication Prospect asked, "if we are no longer a Christian country, what are we?". Former archbishops of Canterbury have warned that the UK will be soon unrecognizable. Rowan Williams has said that the UK is already "post-Christian"."

The UK may be "post-Christian" now.
But a glass that's half empty is also half-full.
Another way to put it:
The UK is "pre-islamic". But that's not gonna last forever.

In fifty years, along with the cameras that are posted in many London locations, there are also going to be mounted loudspeakers...
... loudspeakers that regularly broadcast the muslim call to prayer.

And on google maps, what was "Great Britain" will now be listed as "Britanistan".