[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

"I know it technically still is a "Christian" country, I just wish it didn't have to be described as such. The percentage of Christians currently hovers around 55% to 60% so there are a huge number of people in this democracy who do NOT identify as Christians. And no, that is not because we are being taken over by Islam - the second highest percentage on the census states "no religion". The number of people stating "Christian" dropped 12% between 2001 and 2011, and the number for "no religion" rose by 11%. Following that curve, by 2021, less than 50% of people in the UK will be identifying themselves as Christians. THEN can we finally do away with this needless imposed religious identity?"

There is no need at all for your inclusion of the statement; "And no, that is not because we are being taken over by Islam" because I never stated or intimated or inferred that such was the case.

However; the facts that - statistically - the ,numbers of Christians in the UK is falling whilst Islam is the fastest rising religion in the UK (and globally) are related.

There are diverse reasons behind the statistics;

A)Britain is becoming more Godless with each successive generation - just as Society degenerates with each successive generation, and educational standards fall, crime rises, divorces spiral, children born out of wedlock increases, anti-social behaviour escalates, serial drunkenness and and drug use proliferates, and boorish ignorant behaviour to others replaces common decency and manners.

The reasons for this are also diverse, but one of the main reasons is the successive breakdown of the family 'unit' among certain classes of society; morally 'inadequate' and ignorant uneducated parents raise, (or don't raise at all) their children without moral guidance, discipline, regard for law and order, any sense of common decency and respect for others, and any kind of religious instruction.

These children grow, meet partners of the same ilk, breed children, and perpetuate the cycle.

With each increasingly degenerate generation, Christianity - which like all the other qualities above - is completely lost from families where just a few generations ago it was an integral part of their forebears lives.

B) Less Christianity is being taught in schools.

Again, the reasons for this are diverse, but one of them is Political Correctness rooted in a determination by the authorities not to 'offend' ethnic minorities of a different religion.

C) All manifestations of Christianity being forcibly removed from life in the UK.

Nativity plays banned in our schools, the wearing of crucifixes banned in our hospitals, council offices and other workplaces, the sinister fall in traditional Nativity imagery on Christmas cards - increasingly replaced by secular depictions of Santa Claus, Robins, etc, and a host of other examples, all contribute to an increasing loss of awareness of Christianity.

D) Statistics are compiled from polls.

Not everyone bothers to fill in questionnaires or answer surveys, and even the National Census is far from comprehensive, so statistical results can often be skewed.

E) Immigration.

There has been decades of unfettered and increasing immigration into the UK for several decades now, of which Muslims are the great majority. This - obviously - has changed the demographics in the UK and increasingly continues to do so.

There is - patently - therefore, a definite link between the falling numbers of Christians and the rising numbers of Muslims, but no, that is not because we are being taken over by Islam.

But that does not mean that we are not being taken over by Islam because we are - or rather creeping 'Islamification' of the UK is occurring, and increasingly so, but that's another post .