In case you missed it, here’s a piece I wrote recently for the Open University on the results of the 2021 census findings on religion in the UK. My takeaway: this was all completely predictable.
Perhaps the most likely factor, however, is simply that the default option has changed. Whereas only two decades ago, three-quarters of English people were content to tick the box for Christianity, now fewer than half are. But it’s hard to see evidence that our lifestyles have changed all that much. Maybe the thing that has changed the most is that people, especially younger people, are no longer inclined to say Christianity when really they don’t particularly care.
David G. Robertson 