'The UK is entering its first atheist age,' say researchers

'The UK is entering its first atheist age,' say researchers

"Whilst atheism has been prominent in our culture for some time – be it through Karl Marx, George Eliot, or Ricky Gervais – it is only now that atheists have begun to outnumber theists for the first time in our history."

'The U.K. is entering its first atheist age,' say researchers

‘The U.K. is entering its first atheist age,’ say researchers   05 October 2024 by Staff writer  Reprinted from Christian Today [in the U.K.]   The proportion of atheists in the U.K. has grown to such an extent that it is now possible to speak of the country’s “first atheist age”, a group of researchers has said after publishing the findings of a major study into atheism. The ‘Explaining Atheism’ project, led by Queen’s University Belfast, surve…

Researchers say ‘The UK is entering its first atheist age’ – Stand for Christians

The ‘Explaining Atheism’ research project incorporated numerous UK universities, including Brunel University of London and the University of Kent. The study concluded that parental influences and norms, societal anticipation and beliefs have a major impact on religious faith.  A precedent project called Understanding Unbelief, which ran between 2017–2021, in association with data from the British Social Attitudes Survey and World Values Survey pr