Last month, Cardinal Walter Kasper opined – among other things – that "an aggressive new atheism has spread through Britain". Buoyant sales of The God Delusion aside, there's no real evidence to support this. Yet religious groups have no cause to feel smug either. Kasper's "aggressive new atheists" and Dawkins's "dyed-in-the-wool faith-heads" hold one thing in common: pro or contra, they take religion very seriously. In contemporary Britain, as elsewhere in western Europe, this puts them both squarely in the minority. And as the Church of England's new report makes clear, nowhere is this more true than among the young. Indifference and apathy, in religion as in so much else, are the hallmarks of today's youth.
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