Friday, January 11, 2013
Faith and the dying: deathbed repentance is still popular
Am enjoying the British Religion in Numbers website (brin.org). One 2012 figure is at least amusing in the midst of the falling numbers of Christian affiliation elsewhere.
Less than 60% of the living claim to be Christians in the UK but this rises to to 83% among the dying. (See Brin.org)
Part of this is to do with the fact that the older a person is in the UK, the more likely they are to profess Christianity. But part of it...
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