Scotland’s Religious Collapse

And so it has turned out in Scotland. The latest census, published last month, shows that for the first time a majority of Scots identify as ‘no religion’ whatsoever. This makes Scotland that bit more secular than England and Wales, which are majority non-Christian but not majority non-religious. The Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian, has lost a million members since 2000. Just a fifth of Scots identify with it; it’s down 35 per cent in a decade, which, in a population of about five and a half million, is quite something.