Christianity in the UK is in decline but its influence is not – and that's a real problem ✍️ KatieBEdwards for ipaperviews
Katie Edwards: ‘Is this really the death knell for Christian England? Well, not really’ Cue hand-wringing about moral decline on our fair isle; bring on the right-wing commentators dog-whistling about the erosion of “Judeo-Christian values” in good old Blighty; roll out the social media posts mourning the death of England’s national religion.
Respondents tick a box to a particular question, in this case: ‘‘What is your religion?”, which is somewhat leading. What if you don’t have one? The context of any decline of Christianity in England is a nuanced issue that can’t be fully captured by box-ticking. But Christianity is so closely tied with issues of nationalism, whiteness and privilege in England that it’s impossible to separate them.
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