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On Monday, the director of research at the think tank Theos, Nick Spencer, said that research suggested that belief in God was declining, “but nothing like as fast as nominal religious identity”.

It was important to consider “what Nones actually believe”, he said. “If they retain Christian ethical values, despite dispensing with any nominal association, you are not going to see much of a change; so it probably doesn’t matter that much, and arguably a lot who called themselves C of E did not hold particularly strong Christian ethical values in the first place. But, if the vacuum is further filled in with possessive individualism and consumerism and other self-interested ideologies, that is problematic.”

Madeleine Davies | Read the full article at Christian Today

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