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beccaelizabeth) wrote2012-12-11 05:23 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2012-12-11 05:23 pm
And in local census news
Norwich had the highest proportion of respondents in England and Wales reporting "no religion", 42.5% compared with a figure of 21.1% for England and Wales as a whole.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20679514
The article mentions how there's a church for every Sunday and a pub for every day (or there were, and the saying persists); two cathedrals and 32 medieval churches, not to mention all the newer boxes. Then it gets a lot of quotes from religious people being surprised, because they have a lot of business. Well if population goes up then percentage of religious people can go down and numbers attending church still go up, or if a larger proportion of said Christians are church going Christians in Norwich than in other places you get the good attendance. Don't mean the census is wrong.
With 42.5% no religion and 7.2% not answering, that probably means Christians are less than half of Norwich.
Yep, poked the website, found Christians in 2011 44.9%
Times change.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20679514
The article mentions how there's a church for every Sunday and a pub for every day (or there were, and the saying persists); two cathedrals and 32 medieval churches, not to mention all the newer boxes. Then it gets a lot of quotes from religious people being surprised, because they have a lot of business. Well if population goes up then percentage of religious people can go down and numbers attending church still go up, or if a larger proportion of said Christians are church going Christians in Norwich than in other places you get the good attendance. Don't mean the census is wrong.
With 42.5% no religion and 7.2% not answering, that probably means Christians are less than half of Norwich.
Yep, poked the website, found Christians in 2011 44.9%
Times change.