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1Novak
The most recent surveys in England show 52% of the population follow a set of ideas termed “Non-religious”, making England a non religious nation.
The other 48% are, therefore, made up of: Church of England (Protestant), Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such as Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu sets of ideas.
What would happen if the non-religious set of ideas re-name themselves (say) “Freethinkers”? As a group they far outnumber all other sets of ideas.
Would the government then give them the same credence given to minority groups, for instance, the church of England?
The other 48% are, therefore, made up of: Church of England (Protestant), Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such as Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu sets of ideas.
What would happen if the non-religious set of ideas re-name themselves (say) “Freethinkers”? As a group they far outnumber all other sets of ideas.
Would the government then give them the same credence given to minority groups, for instance, the church of England?
2Cynfelyn
>1 Novak: It's not going to happen. The non-religious are not a coherent group, any more than people that don't shop at Morrisons, or don't like Brussel sprouts, or don't watch football, are likely to allow themselves to be subjected to a collective name.
My team on Kiva is called (A+) Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious, but that's America for you, where the situation is slightly different.
Here, best to leave the gods to die of the general public's indifference. My children and their friends would certainly be hard pushed to tell you what the religious significance of Christmas and Easter was, perhaps even that they were religious holidays. They certainly couldn't coherent answer to why Lent? why chocolate eggs? why Advent calendars? why Christmas trees? other than to repeat the answer given by the fiddler on the roof: "Tradition!"
On the other side of the coin, you want to appeal to the Westminster government for sense???
My team on Kiva is called (A+) Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious, but that's America for you, where the situation is slightly different.
Here, best to leave the gods to die of the general public's indifference. My children and their friends would certainly be hard pushed to tell you what the religious significance of Christmas and Easter was, perhaps even that they were religious holidays. They certainly couldn't coherent answer to why Lent? why chocolate eggs? why Advent calendars? why Christmas trees? other than to repeat the answer given by the fiddler on the roof: "Tradition!"
On the other side of the coin, you want to appeal to the Westminster government for sense???
3paradoxosalpha
In addition to being empirically dubious, the effort to consider disorganized unbelief as comparable to institutional religion helps to fuel propagandistic claims that the non-religious represent a hostile counter-religion as opposed to a fundamental opting out of religious participation.
