The UK is officially post-Christian. It is “the first time in a census of England and Wales that fewer than half of the population have described themselves as Christian.”
This news was greeted gleefully by the National Secular Society. “It’s official – we are no longer a Christian country,” said Stephen Evans, the chief executive. “The census figures paint a picture of a population that has dramatically moved away from Christianity – and from religion as a whole. The current status quo, in which the Church of England is deeply embedded in the UK state, is unfair and undemocratic – and looking increasingly absurd and unsustainable.”
