In the U.K. and Europe, the rise of the religiously nonaffiliated, or “nones,” in surveys and censuses has caused fears that the era of faith is fading fast, if not already past.
Some details from the 2018 British Social Attitudes survey on religion in the U.K. placed “nones” as 52 percent of the British population, those who identify as Christian at 38 percent and as members of non-Christian faiths at 10 percent. The 2021 Official U.K. Census (compiled during the Covid-19 pandemic) was more nuanced, but shows the sharp decline in religious identity from the first decade to the second decade of the 21st century: While Christians dropped by nearly 10 million and other faiths increased slightly, those who identified as “no religion” grew more than 8 million over 10 years.
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