Britain has become less religious — and less white — in the last decade. 9News
Andrew Copson, chief executive of the charity Humanists UK, said "the dramatic growth of the non-religious" had made the UK "almost certainly one of the least religious countries on Earth."
"One of the most striking things about these results is how at odds the population is from the state itself," he said. "No state in Europe has such a religious set-up as we do in terms of law and public policy, while at the same time having such a non-religious population." Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, one of the most senior clerics in the Church of England, said the data was "not a great surprise," but was a challenge to Christians to work harder to promote their faith.
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