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    2022 Census: Majority of Scots have no religion
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    2022 Census: Majority of Scots have no religion

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    1. sbos_ on

      It’s why sturgeon was able to run while n cause mass confusion. They have no moral standards

    2. glasabarn on

      Good. Hopefully we can one day eradicate bronze age fairy stories for good.

    3. Volant_Hollandaise on

      I thought this was a good thing, but I’ve seen so many of my fellow atheists be so philosophically defenceless against Islam, which, in my opinion, is as false as, but much more dangerous, than Christianity, that I’ve stopped seeing this as a good thing.

      Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about this.

    4. Decided2change on

      > God is dead

      -Friedrich Nietzsche

      Christianity has been in decline for over 100 years. In an age where the amount of misinformation and manipulation of the public is so clear to see, it makes less and less sense to put faith in a book that we know went through several edits and censoring.

      It’s unrealistic to expect people were not as corrupt in the past as they are now.

      If the Bible was written today we would absolutely question the motives of those who wrote it and undoubtedly they would be subject to some bizarre and ironic scandal

    5. SlightWerewolf4428 on

      See the atheists are out….

      Obviously religion is in decline, and all our problems are solved. Right?

    6. dmastra97 on

      Good, I’m just hoping things don’t change with the expected increase of Islam followers in the UK. Could just be we’re just replacing Christianity for something else

    7. captain_todger on

      Well yeah, there’s not much need for it anymore. We have answers to questions about the universe and healthier ways of coping with our life problems. What’s the purpose of being religious these days? Having said that, I still see the community aspect being a positive for older folk

    8. FairTrainRobber on

      I was raised an atheist by non-believing parents brought up in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland strain of Christianity. Spent all my formative years sneering at the religious, as if I was so much cleverer than them, but I no longer see our increasing secularism as a good thing. We’re now in a vacuum and I’m not seeing much to be optimistic about filling the gap.

      Anyway, aside from the arguments around where morals come from, entire communities coming together once a week in their best clothes, praying and singing together was irrefutably good for society (I won’t bother to respond to replies asking me to explain that premise; adopt the position for yourself and try to knock it down if you’re skeptical) and the decline of churchgoers has been having a fracturing effect on British communities for my parents’ entire lifetimes.

      Now, we have the added threat of an incredibly pious and hostile religion growing up and down the country to contend with. Just because Christianity is in decline, doesn’t mean religion is. I found I was surprised at how pleased I was to hear the new undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and his competitor both thank their Lord Jesus Christ in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.

    9. sololevel253 on

      rather ironic seeing lots of commenters on this post, who are supposedly good and tolerant, sneer and jeer at religion. the sheer arrogance and intolerance.

      such attitudes dont bode well for democracy

    10. Cermonto on

      Watch some christian like 17 year old make a “What has the world come too…atleast us sigma male christians exist still” edit on tiktok.

    11. BowerbirdsRule on

      Good for Scotland! We are drowning in religious idiocy over here in the States. It’s a literal plague on our society.

    12. Inevitable_Snow_5812 on

      I have this really weird feeling that we are all going to end up going to church en-masse in the event of WW3 or if the Muslims rise up, as part of a desperate struggle; or indeed just to find peace and comfort in the same things our ancestors did.
      Everybody can benefit from a good sermon, even those of us who don’t believe. There are values and truths and messages to be conveyed in and through them, that bestow strength upon the listener.

      I’m not a Christian but I don’t think we should throw our culture away. Even George Orwell was active in his church community as an atheist.
      Judeo-Christian values are responsible for the civilised world at large. We might not believe any more, but it should always be there, like the fish & chip shop is.