NEW research is showing that the UK officially has more atheists than believers now and according to the 2022 census, around 69% of people in Ireland identified as Catholic, a significant decrease from 84% in 2011.
Perhaps we would be better suited as ‘the land of sceptics and sarcasm’ rather than ‘saints and scholars’?
I recently heard an anecdote about a teacher asking a classroom full of children to raise their hand if they believed in God, and only three did. Maybe most of them had smelly armpits and didn’t want to be outed as a soap-dodger by wafting it in the air?
It amazes me how these same kids believe that a fat man breaks and enters their house once a year to leave gifts and that there’s a fairy out there with a psychopathic obsession for collecting human teeth, yet they can’t fathom the notion that there may have been a higher power at work when the universe was created.
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I’m not incredulous with adult atheists, for that matter. I’m simply stating that most kids will believe anything, so why not in God? After all, it isn’t that hard to believe in an entity who knows everything........