People are furious over this map of England and Wales

It's just too bloo

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[HessionDrasha]

My parents aren't christian, but they always said they were on the census. This happened last generation, it's just catching up.

[hughtube]

For anyone outside the UK wondering at the laugh Evan had over Brighton and Hove Albion being mostly non-religious it's because that area is very LGBTQ.

[ez]

my dad puts christian on his census response "because his family is christian" as if it's an ethnicity lol despite the fact that he's never touched a bible or a church so i'm sure there are lots more people who also just put it down out of habit yk

[antiqueinsider]

You might note that the main reason for the census is planning, (tax and subsidies). A few years ago there was a boom in people describing their religion as 'Jedi Knight'.

[RichardGadsden]

The reason the Ashfield Wikipedia page has so little to say about the place is that there isn't really a place called Ashfield, just a council. There are three towns (Sutton, Kirkby and Hucknall) and Ashfield is just a made-up name for the council that covers all three.

[HeidiSholl]

11 years ago, when I was 13, my mum did my census for me (I don't know if I was old enough to do it myself). She put my religion as "Christian" and I remember being absolutely furious. I hadn't been a "Christian" since I was 8, and she just couldn't understand why I was so upset. So a small part of that percentage is because I finally had the chance to choose for myself this time!

[KateHistoryMysteries]

Latin teacher here: the typical plural is censuses but the technical Latin plural is census (pronounced with a long u e.g. "cen-sous")

[snivader]

On the final part on welsh national identity i find myself personally identifying as 50% welsh 50% British or so, as a child of parents who immigrated to the UK before i was born. I’ve lived in Wales all my life until the past few years at uni; I’m not sure what other peoples experiences are but to me my national identity has definitely been affected by every aspect of my life so far.

[allyorr]

I remember being a kid and identifying as 'Christian' even though I had hardly ever been to church in my life, simply because I didn't realise you could be non-religious. I thought you had to have a religion and Christian was just the 'default' for me - but I didn't really have any concept of God or Jesus or anything. Wasn't until I was older that I started identifying as non-religious, which is what I pretty much was already.

Also, on the British vs English thing - it's strange because I definitely am English, having lived my whole life here, but I would absolutely call myself British first and I can't really explain why. I don't think there is much pride in being 'English', unlike Scottish and Welsh, because England is blatantly (and wrongly) the biggest and most powerful of the UK nations.

[lollydolly]

I’ve been in Italy for the past few months and they only use the word “inglese” ‘English’ or “Inghilterra” ‘England’ to describe us. I’ve tried using the translation of UK “Regno Unito” or British ‘brittanica’ because that’s what I would say here but it makes you seem like a foreigner because they don’t use it and some of the kids don’t know what the UK is they just say England

[welshed]

Identifying as just Welsh is down 7%, but identifying as Welsh and British is up 23%. So, there’s still a lot of Welsh national pride and people in Wales (I think) would still say they are Welsh first and foremost. However, they are also proud to be British. I can understand and respect that.

[lmyoung]

This drop in percentages of the people of the UK not being Christian is not really a surprise to me.
Over the different generations of my family I have seen Grandparents truly religious and go to church every Sunday as a must.
My own parents who both attended church as children turn away from the church.
One becoming an atheist and the other wanting to find belief in something.
I myself started going to church as a child and after going to secondary school and learning that Christianity wasn't the only religion out there, left the church and found Spirituality.
And my child identifies as herself.
Self belief is important to us both.
We both still go to church at the weekends.
That is a pub, which was once upon a time a church.
The building is beautiful and still full of song and high spirits!!
Just now of true sports fans, drinking and eating together making another kind of a community family 👪 .

[chezozie]

As a Christian, I’m actually glad to see the percentage of Christians go down. I think in the past, more people identified as “Christian” on censuses even if they weren’t actually practicing Christians and it was just tradition for them, which inflates the statistic and doesn’t give an accurate representation of how much of the population actually practice the Christian faith

[GojiMet]

I love how waste basket Nigel has a problem with the Muslim percentage going up and Christian percentage going down, but the huge increase in non-religious is just ignored. You would think that would be a bigger problem for the more devout. But clearly, it's not just the type of religion he doesn't like, it's also, uh, the color brown.

[MrDean]

“We need a little bit more Welsh pride in the comments section”

Happy to help! Cymru am byth 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[speleokeir]

One thing to take into account regarding the religious split is there are also people who may technically say they're Christian, e.g for the census, but aren't practising Christians.

e.g. They went to a Church of England or catholic school, but never go to church and in reality are agnostic.

I have met a lot of Irish in particular who feel that way. If asked they claim to be Catholic, but then if you ask when was the last time they went to Mass or confession they'll admit only when they visit relatives in Ireland. If you ask if they actually believe in god, they'll often sit on the fence.

Nationality. I think of myself as both British and English. I've lived in England all my life in the South West, North and Midlands and support England in sports like rugby against the other home nations, but I also like to see the other 3 countries do well against everyone else.

My dad's side of the family have some welsh blood and I also have relatives living in Scotland. I'm also 1/16th Romany gypsy through a great, great, grandmother. Bascially like most British people I'm a mongrel!😄

[elliebuist]

I was born in England but have lived in Scotland since I was 7. I find identity quite difficult because I’d never say I was English or Scottish because I don’t really feel one better describes me than the other so I said I was British on the Census.

[ultraredd]

As a Humanist, your brief summary of Humanism was pretty accurate. Thanks for including us.

[jacklovejoy]

The best response to Nigel Fartage complaining about Birmingham becoming Minority Majority was from Sajid Javid, who said "so what?"

[rogerwitte]

Have you come across John Betjeman's 1937 poem 'Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough'? I've always loved the contradiction that the British have an established church and while the population and politics are secular. The US contradiction of having formal separation of church and state while politics is steeped in religiosity seems worse.