{"id":25166,"date":"2017-07-07T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25166"},"modified":"2017-07-07T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:24:34","slug":"53-of-britons-are-non-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/53-of-britons-are-non-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"53% of Britons are non-religious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/humanism.org.uk\/2017\/07\/05\/53-of-britons-are-non-religious-says-latest-british-social-attitudes-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 34th annual British Social Attitudes Survey has shown that non-religious people represent a clear majority of British people in 2017, accounting for 53% of the population. This is a new high for the non-religious population, which was previously estimated at 51% in 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That isn\u2019t particularly surprising since a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/1403106\/One-third-of-clergy-do-not-believe-in-the-Resurrection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar poll<\/a> in 2002 found that 50% of Anglican clergy are also non-religious insofar as they don\u2019t believe in the Virgin Birth or that Jesus is the only way to be saved. If Church of England clergy work really hard, I imagine they will be able to talk the remaining 47% of Britons out of their faith, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A third of Church of England clergy doubt or disbelieve in the physical Resurrection and only half are convinced of the truth of the Virgin birth, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>The poll of nearly 2,000 of the Church&#8217;s 10,000 clergy also found that only half believe that faith in Christ is the only route to salvation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this: The 34th annual British Social Attitudes Survey has shown that non-religious people represent a clear majority of British people in 2017, accounting for 53% of the population. This is a new high for the non-religious population, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/53-of-britons-are-non-religious\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}