UK: only 2% of young adults identity as Church of England members

[lpetrich]

UK Church in Crisis: Only 2% of Young Adults Identify as C of E | Jonathan MS Pearce noting Church in crisis as only 2% of young adults identify as C of E | World news | The Guardian

From the Guardian article's graph of religious-affiliation percentages, I select the numbers for 2002 and 2017:

• Church of England: 32% - 14%
• Roman Catholic: 9% - 8%
• Other Christian: 14% - 18%
• Non-Christian: 4% - 8%
• None: 41% - 52%

People over 65 are the most likely to identify with the C of E. But their proportion was 30% in 2017, down from 52% in 2002. These people also had a big increase in Nones: 18% in 2002 to 34% in 2017.

The biggest decline in C of E identifiers was in people 45 - 54 years old, from 35% in 2002 to 11% in 2017.

Quoting from the Guardian again,

The demographic breakdown in the new data is particularly unwelcome news for the church. Younger people are significantly less likely to identify with the C of E than older age groups, and evidence suggests that people rarely join organised religion in later life. The trend indicates that affiliation with the C of E could become negligible with successive generations.

 

[phands]

Good to see. I posted similar figures for Scotland a little while ago....the UK is essentially a secular country now, and the better for it. And the USA is following along with "nones" being the biggest voting bloc now.

 

[Lion IRC]

Young people’s mental health is a ‘worsening crisis’

The Guardian also tells us...

“Young people’s mental health is a ‘worsening crisis’. Action is needed
(Mary O'Hara 1 Aug 2018 03.04 AEST)

One recent report called the problem a “silent catastrophe” while a survey of teachers labelled it an “epidemic”. But, whatever the language deployed to describe the scale of mental health challenges facing Britain’s young people, it has to be addressed immediately.

NHS figures published last month revealed that almost 400,000 children and young people aged 18 and under are in contact with the health service for mental health problems. According to the figures, the number of “active referrals” by GPs in April was a third higher than the same period two years prior. Those seeking help for conditions such as depression and anxiety showed a sharp increase.”

Correlation/Causation/Correlation/Causation

Good to see?

The “nones” is a very appropriate label.

 

[steve_bank]

The Guardian also tells us...

“Young people’s mental health is a ‘worsening crisis’. Action is needed
(Mary O'Hara 1 Aug 2018 03.04 AEST)

One recent report called the problem a “silent catastrophe” while a survey of teachers labelled it an “epidemic”. But, whatever the language deployed to describe the scale of mental health challenges facing Britain’s young people, it has to be addressed immediately.

NHS figures published last month revealed that almost 400,000 children and young people aged 18 and under are in contact with the health service for mental health problems. According to the figures, the number of “active referrals” by GPs in April was a third higher than the same period two years prior. Those seeking help for conditions such as depression and anxiety showed a sharp increase.”

Correlation/Causation/Correlation/Causation

Good to see?

The “nones” is a very appropriate label.

Praying and believing an imaginary god listens and his imaginary son is your friend is what...mentally healthy? Believing gays should be tormented because a line in a book written thousands of years ago by unknown authors is what...mentally healthy? Basing upor life on a collection of disjointed writings from thousands of years ago claiming a god winked everything into existence is what...mentally healthy? Catholics believing water and wine is transformed into blood and flesh of a dead person eating it in ritual cannibalism is what...mentally healthy? Grown Mormon men wearing special underwear with special protective powers is what...mentally healthy?

Etc etc etc etc...

A child growing older believing in an imaginary friend other than Jesus would get counseling.

 

[atrib]

The Guardian also tells us...

“Young people’s mental health is a ‘worsening crisis’. Action is needed
(Mary O'Hara 1 Aug 2018 03.04 AEST)

One recent report called the problem a “silent catastrophe” while a survey of teachers labelled it an “epidemic”. But, whatever the language deployed to describe the scale of mental health challenges facing Britain’s young people, it has to be addressed immediately.

NHS figures published last month revealed that almost 400,000 children and young people aged 18 and under are in contact with the health service for mental health problems. According to the figures, the number of “active referrals” by GPs in April was a third higher than the same period two years prior. Those seeking help for conditions such as depression and anxiety showed a sharp increase.”

Correlation/Causation/Correlation/Causation

Good to see?

The “nones” is a very appropriate label.

They are probably depressed at the thought that billions of people all over the planet regularly talk to an imaginary friend, and believe that they will be magically reincarnated when they die so they can praise their invisible friend forever (or be roasted over a fire for eternity if their imaginary friend has unfriended them on social media). It is a depressing thought, that grown, otherwise rational people can actually believe this nonsense just because their parents believed it and their grandparents believed this shit. And sometimes people even go to war over who has the better invisible friend. Can you blame these kids for being depressed?

 

[bilby]

The Guardian also tells us...

“Young people’s mental health is a ‘worsening crisis’. Action is needed
(Mary O'Hara 1 Aug 2018 03.04 AEST)

One recent report called the problem a “silent catastrophe” while a survey of teachers labelled it an “epidemic”. But, whatever the language deployed to describe the scale of mental health challenges facing Britain’s young people, it has to be addressed immediately.

NHS figures published last month revealed that almost 400,000 children and young people aged 18 and under are in contact with the health service for mental health problems. According to the figures, the number of “active referrals” by GPs in April was a third higher than the same period two years prior. Those seeking help for conditions such as depression and anxiety showed a sharp increase.”

Correlation/Causation/Correlation/Causation

Good to see?

The “nones” is a very appropriate label.

Greater religiosity would help young people's mental health, in EXACTLY the same way that reducing the use of nuclear power would help prevent swimming pool drownings.

 

[lpetrich]

The Guardian also tells us...

“Young people’s mental health is a ‘worsening crisis’. Action is needed
(Mary O'Hara 1 Aug 2018 03.04 AEST) ...

So one ought to find out which religion makes its followers the mentally healthiest and then make oneself believe in it and practice it? Even if it is a religion that one considers false?

If (say) belief in reincarnation made one mentally healthier than believe in Heaven and Hell, should one make oneself believe in reincarnation even if one believes that we don't get reincarnated?