Now UK Christians are in a minority: Number of people who say they do not identify with any religion reaches almost half after doubling in the past three years

We will all find out at some point.

Psalm 14 verse 1 ... The fool has said in their heart there is no God ...

@Farmer15: The fool has said 'The fool has said in their heart there is no God'...

I`d prefer to spend my life believing in a god and when I die find out there isn`t one than to spend my life not believing and then when i die find out there is one.

Which god to choose then? You do realise there are hundreds?

Do you think it was Atheist who gave the West it's education, human rights, democracy, social organisations, charities, and human dignity?, think again, many of the things you now enjoy were pioneered by Christians who were inspired by the Bible. Some even laid down their lives so you can have freedom.

I think you'll find that it was the ancient Greeks who more or less invented democracy!

Doesn't mean your imaginary friend exists though. Religion was understandable in times passed when we had little understanding of the universe around us. Now we have started to answer those questions religion becomes more and more irrelevant. Remember my friend we are all atheists I just don't believe in one more god than you.

So said the brain-washed to the enlightened atheist masses!

Why? My mum has just died and she didnt pray to anyone.

The world is magnificent; it is unfortunate about many of the people in it who do have a choice as to how they conduct themselves.

The christian belief is GOD created evil so you would have free choice for GOOD or EVIL, if he made a world without evil, we would just be robots that do his will, he wants friend in eternity who are like him who choose to resist evil.

I celebrate Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, I have no truck with your cuckoo-like hijacking of a decent festival that long predates the adoption of it by the early christian church. Get off my festival.

@FrancisWalsingham...Good luck getting a card for that in WHSmith!

Yes, Christmas, that lovely pagan festival Christianity hijacked.

I don't want eternal life, thanks.

God kills children in other bits of the bible.2 Kings 2:24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

I was always partial to Timothy 2:12 myself: I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

That may well be what the bible SAYS, but then the bible is almost all man-made fantasy with a few hazy historical facts thrown in.

That's the point of religion. Believe something with no fact or proof.....or else. What a load of rubbish

More proof for Odin though, after all he promised to destroy the ice giants and I don't see to many of them walking around

Speak for yourself...

religion, like nature, abhors a vacuum........................

I am an atheist, but I have christian values. You do not have to believe some imaginary bloke created the universe and sent his son to save us to know the difference between right and wrong.

Then if I may ask - what is the point of having christian values if you don't believe in it's source?

Christians do not have the monopoly on values. Morals come from humans, not from God otherwise we would still have slavery. North Korea has a religion - its the worship of Kim Jong-Un. If Britain was a secular nation, no religion would be able to 'place their foothold on this nation'

They're not "Christian values" they're human values that are inherent to our species and we don't require the promise of reward or threat of damnation to adhere to them. Have some self respect, we don't need "divine permission" to know right from wrong. Our species would never have survived for as long as it has if we didn't inherently understand the need for mutual co-operation and respect for one another. Even animals know they need to work together for the benefit of the pride, pack or herd.

You've misread the report. Xians, along with many others are abandoning faith altogether, not swapping one flavour for another.

Spoken like a deluded Christian.1. People don't 'decide' not to believe in God because it's 'trendy'. There is NO 'decision'. No one 'chooses' to believe God doesn't exist one day. They either do, or they don't, or they're not sure. There's never a concious choice. If there were, you could just choose to believe the moon doesn't exist. 2. No, non-belief in any religion, is NOT a religion. The Christians that spout such nonsense show that they're either parrots just repeating what nonsense other Christians have said, and/or they're incapable of any intelligent thoughts.

That'll be none then

It does you no credit Pendle Bill to make your definition of true Christian the definitive one.

By life changing experience, do you mean growing up in a Christian environment with Christian parents and family and going to a Christian school. Yes truly life changing.

Actually, no. I BECAME a Christian at the age ot 22 when I encountered Jesus for myself. I'm not on my own there......there are millions of us worldwide.

Gullible fantasists you mean?

only a weak person believes in a supernatural forces such as God.

Sorry...you're not so stupid as to think the world is better WITH religion, are you?Can you please sit down and think about this properly for a minute? In general, or on average, do people (especially women) have more freedoms and rights in heavily religious countries, or countries that are not very religious.It doesn't take much to think about really. Countries with less religion, are on average, happier countries, with less persecuted and oppressed people.Yes - there are exceptions, like North Korea...of course someone doesn't need religion to be bad.But doing bad things is more easily justifyable by religion. Honestly, think about what you're saying here. One would have to be stupid to believe that the most heavily religious countries are the least oppressive, and most successful and happy countries.

Hey, I may not like her, but at least Kim Kardashian exists

Really?? Science proves God because science proves creation. If you understood real science you would know that God exists.

I do understand science having worked as a research scientist for years, it is you my friend that doesn't understand, or else you wouldn't need religion to explain that which you can't comprehend

That's what Harold Camping said precisely five years ago, and the world is still here. What a surprise!

And may all flat packs rise one day.

At least we have evidence that IKEA exists!