This post comes from my Substack. I made it with matplotlib in Python, using data from the 2021 Census of England and Wales.
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This post comes from my Substack. I made it with matplotlib in Python, using data from the 2021 Census of England and Wales.
Posted by Aggravating-Food9603
32 Comments
How does one enroll for witchcraft? Asking for a friend
Interesting to see different splits on Wicca, Druid and Pagan tbh
wonder why taoism and rastafarianism are disproportionately male.
Why is No Religion and Atheist split? That’s the same thing.
Heathen?? WTF does that mean in this context?
What exactly is “Heathen” that doesn’t fall into Wichcraft, Wicca, or Pagan?
The only thing I can think of is those white supremacist viking LARPer type dudes.
Humanism isn’t a religion
Spiritual and spiritualist … “Do you play the organ or are you an organist?”
jewish 271k… someone cooked here
>satanism
>66.6% male
Oh fuck off
I wonder about the Pastafarians.
Would also be interesting to order them by total response, just to see how those bars line up.
I know you can see the numbers in this one, but it’s just not very visually clear.
So no one is going to talk about how Satanism landed at 66.6%? Say what you will about them they stick to their branding
Is there some oddness in the data that paganism is it’s own seperate section rather than Other Religions? Paganism is often catchall name for native Irish, eastern Europe and Scandanavian religions.
I guess if a man is single and looking for a quality partner and one is a man they can become a witch. If a woman is single and looking for a quality man they can become a…Heathen.
Atheist boyfriend witch girlfriend confirmed
It seems like I’m in the minority but the title was very confusing to me. I think the graph depicts “what percentage of religious beliefs are held by men vs women?”
Woh, Atheism is that skewed??
Paganism is 62% female, and Heathen is 79% male. What’s really the difference?
How is Deist different from Believe in God
“We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” …
i don’t think 80% of woman would believe in witchcraft.. this is just too high.
Shoutout to the Zoroastrians
Why men are less inclined to believe in BS than women? There is any scientific study in that respect? Thank you for your attention to this matter
This is sick! I’ve just been writing about religion trends from last year and globally believers are in decline. Great to see the breakdown by gender.
Wait, 66.6% of Satanists are men? That feels a little too on-the-nose. Did they deliberately engineer that percentage?
Atheism is 69% male.
Nice.
For people not familiar with UK censuses, the question is…
“What is your religion?” and is voluntary, allowing options like “No religion,” “Christian,” “Muslim,” “Hindu,” etc., plus an “Any other religion, write in” box.
Various secular organisations such as Humanists object to this as the question is leading and campaign every time for people to answer “No Religion” as that’s the only answer that can’t be twisted.
I often heard it’s a good idea to join a church to meet women. Didn’t know a warlock would be such a women magnet.
Where is Jedi? I have a feeling that will be rather skewed…
what is the difference between “I believe in god” and “Diest”?
I’m guessing astrology would be near the top, not that it’s a religion. I’d argue it’s definitely a contender for this list though, being a faith based system that guides your daily life