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Recently on our @AtheismUK Twitter feed we posted the following meme: OK, it is a bit of a silly meme, after all we don’t believe that there is a god…
Some personal thoughts from one of our AUK members: (more…) (more…)
At the 7th August 2021 Atheism UK AGM, Chris Street retired from Atheism UK (AUK) Council after serving 10 years, seven years as President. Chris was introduced to AUK by (more…)
Schools could be found in breach of failing to fulfil requirements for daily ‘collective worship’. The Education Act (1944) requires all maintained schools to provide a daily act of collective (more…)
'The trend seems inexorable as the gradual but persistent march of 'nones' in Great Britain continues relentlessly apace year-on-year: in 2011 one in three people had 'No Religion', a decade…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnr8CDZnYlU The Atheist Alliance International Podcast With Andy Phillips. AtheismUK is affiliated to AAI and Andy Phillips is on the Council of AtheismUK. Andy speaks with Atheist Alliance International…
On average the number of non-religious people in Britain has increased by a million each year in the last seven years, according to the Annual Population Survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released April 2019.
As a lawyer I strive to ... make full use of my legal toolkit to persuade the decision-maker that atheist asylum applicants are not making up their claims to stay…
A Church of England survey this week reveals the staggering extent of childhood indoctrination / socialisation* in Britain. The survey shows that nearly two-thirds of all British Christians become Christian when they were still toddlers at 0-4 years old. (1,2) Seventeen out of twenty Christians become Christian when children or teenagers, only one in twenty when adults.
* h/t Matt Sheard comment about socialisation 19/9/17.
Whilst half of Brits are Christian, four in ten don’t belong to any religious group. Almost six in ten of 19-24 year olds are non-religious.