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Bones McCoy
 Post subject: Re: 2011 Census Data
PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:25 pm 
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Just wait until they release the data about ethnicity and religion.


I'm rather looking forward to getting the religion results; and then ramming them up a parade of rightminds arseholes.


I'm especially looking forward to the inevitable large drop in the percentage of Christians.


That was my thought, exploding the "Persecuted christian majority" myth.
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Abernathy
 Post subject: Re: 2011 Census Data
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The data on religion are in.

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2012/12/percentage-in-uk-identifying-as.html

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/index.html

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The number of residents who stated that their religion was Christian in 2011 was fewer than in 2001. The size of this group decreased 13 percentage points to 59 per cent (33.2 million) in 2011 from 72 per cent (37.3 million) in 2001. The size of the group who stated that they had no religious affiliation increased by 10 percentage points from 15 per cent (7.7 million) in 2001 to 25 per cent (14.1 million) in 2011.


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There is also, apparently, no longer a protestant majority in Ulster. :shock:

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There is also, apparently, no longer a protestant majority in Ulster. :shock:


Don't use that as a shorthand for Northern Ireland. You'll get complaints. :wink:
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Angelina Buxombotté
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There is also, apparently, no longer a protestant majority in Ulster. :shock:


Was there ever? :shock:
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There is also, apparently, no longer a protestant majority in Ulster. :shock:


I'm sure the Belfast rioters will be delighted to hear it. Timing.

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Angelina Buxombotté wrote:
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There is also, apparently, no longer a protestant majority in Ulster. :shock:


Was there ever? :shock:

Obviously a highly contentious point, I've always understood that the majority were Catholics but that the Protestants had gained the majority vote through gerrymandering.

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Angelina Buxombotté
 Post subject: Re: 2011 Census Data
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My point was that geographically Ulster is more than the six counties of Northern Ireland although I plead ignorance to the religious makeup of Cavan, Monaghan and Donegall. I the boundaries drawn up which became Northern Ireland were to give Protestants a majority. Its somewhat of a truism to say the all Northern Ireland is in Ulster but not all Ulster is in Northern Ireland.

Just sayin, like. :shock:
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Tubby Isaacs
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Tower Hamlets least Christian place in the UK.

All the fault of the Muslims. Because of course you couldn't keep Cockneys out of church. New churches are opening all the time in Debden and Grays to accommodate the Cockney Christian Diaspora.

Us trendy atheists have a lot to answer for too. It's not just that we don't worship, it's that we positively "sneer" at people who do. Except Muslims, of course.

Only an influx of Latin Americans or very old Irish can save Christianity round our way.
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Quarter of people say they do not follow any religion following rise of aggressive atheism


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The rise in atheism comes in the wake of high-profile anti-religious screeds by prominent writers such as Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and Christopher Hitchens.

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Tubby Isaacs
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Aggressive atheists write books. The fuckers.
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Angelina Buxombotté wrote:
My point was that geographically Ulster is more than the six counties of Northern Ireland

Of course. It's a common enough English mistake though, rather like those who think UK=England.

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Aggressive atheists write books. The fuckers.


I was a pretty much confirmed atheist some considerable time before Dawkins published The God Delusion. I'd read The Selfish Gene and the Blind Watchmaker and various other works that made the non-existence of god(s) clear to me, but mostly I simply couldn't accept the sheer absurdity of religion. TGD brought it all together very neatly.

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Census shows 'highest' Scottish population ever

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Commenting on the results, Acting Registrar General Audrey Robertson said: "These first results from the Census confirm the upward trend in the size of Scotland's population in recent years.

"At 5,295,000, the population is now the highest ever recorded. This increase is partly because there have been more births than deaths, but mainly because more people have moved to Scotland than have left.
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Tubby Isaacs
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Have the Mail been on to the White British population of Tower Hamlets being lower than the British Bangladeshi population yet?

The whites (all categories) outnumber all categories of Asians though. So I suppose Newham is probably in the firing line before us.
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