Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Well, reading this has provided some ammusement over the weekend.

A decline of 55,000 in the Church of England over 7 years is less than 5,000 a year, which can mostly be accounted for with the decline of the Anglo-Saxon population that has traditionally made up the CofE. In any case, CofE figures only account for Sunday Worship, not the various mid-week evening initiatives which many Diocese are now running.

So you aren't enlightening anyone, we're just dieing as a people slighting faster than we can win converts.

The other denominations are still increasing rather than falling, which indicates a very likely see-change overall, and no figures are given for the evangelicals, who have seen explosiv growth in the last 10 years or so.

Further, NONE of you have taken account of the people who have converted but do not regularly attend Church (which includes myself for complex reasons).

So, in orther words, slow growth or negligable decline probably indicates much larger growth which will only show in the numbers in another 5-10 years.
So, after trumpeting that the stats Louis has used are proving that Faith is on the UP in the UK, you go on to discredit them when he uses them? Please...

Atheists aren't so good at performing the leap of faith cognitive jump to arrive at your final assertion.