Religion has weak role in Brits’ lives: Poll

In the survey of 1828 adults across the UK, 37% of respondents said they are “not very religious” and 39% said they are “not very religious at all’, making the total of 76% who are not religious, compared with just 5% who regarded themselves as “very religious”.

Moreover, according to the poll, half of Britons (50%) said they do not consider themselves as belonging to any particular faith, compared to 43% who considered themselves as a member of a faith.

The role of religion in British life has been debated after recent cases of public sector workers being banned from displaying Christian symbols at work, and the High Court’s rule to ban local councils could from holding prayers during meetings.

Last week, Baroness Warsi, Britain’s first female Muslim Cabinet minister warned that “aggressive secularization” of the UK threatens British society and called for religion to play a greater role in politics and public life.

Writing in an article for The Daily Telegraph, prior to her visit to the Vatican, she said, “My fear today is that a militant secularization is taking hold of our societies. We see it in any number of things: when signs of religion cannot be displayed or worn in government buildings; and where religion is sidelined, marginalized and downgraded in the public sphere.”

Last January, British religious figures also warned against removing religion as a GCSEs subject in the new English baccalaureate.

Bishop of Oxford, the Right Rev. John Pritchard described the education system’s neglect of religion as “highly dangerous” in the context of violent campaigns by the likes of the English Defense League (EDL) against British Muslims.

As most British people consider themselves as being not religious and the government seems to have a lack of attention to religion, speculations promote about the possible consequences of the diminished role of religion in the British society.

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