| | '''Great Britain''' is a [[Europe]]an island consisting of [[England]], [[Scotland]], and [[Wales]], all of which send representatives to the Parliament of the [[United Kingdom]]. The "United Kingdom" consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Great Britain" also has a purely geographic meaning, as the largest [[island]] of the [[British Isles]]. | | '''Great Britain''' is a [[Europe]]an island consisting of [[England]], [[Scotland]], and [[Wales]], all of which send representatives to the Parliament of the [[United Kingdom]]. The "United Kingdom" consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Great Britain" also has a purely geographic meaning, as the largest [[island]] of the [[British Isles]]. |
| − | Great Britain rose as a predominantly [[Christian]] nation to spectacular success as the [[British Empire]], peaking between 1815 and 1915, but then declined under [[atheism]] as propagated by its [[secular]] higher education. Today most [[Brit]]s say they have "no religion," and the country is merely a shell of its former preeminence, ranking as merely the fifth largest economy in the world by GDP while the [[U.S.]] subsidizes the real costs of its national defense. Although the costs of fighting two world wars and giving up its Empire have been cited as significantly weakening the British economy during the 20th Century, the moral decay wrought by adherence to [[Charles Darwin]] and other atheistic icons and theories has harmed it more. | + | Great Britain rose as a predominantly [[Christian]] nation to spectacular success as the [[British Empire]], peaking between 1815 and 1915, but then declined under [[atheism]] as propagated by its [[secular]] higher education. Today most [[Brit]]s say they have "no religion," and the country is merely a shell of its former preeminence, ranking as merely the fifth largest economy in the world by GDP while the [[U.S.]] subsidizes the real costs of its national defense. Although the costs of fighting two world wars and giving up its Empire have been cited as significantly weakening the British economy during the 20th Century, the moral decay wrought by adherence to [[Charles Darwin]] and other atheistic icons and theories has harmed it more. '''''Today the primary value of [[Great Britain]] is its news website that post embarrassing stories about [[liberal]] [[American]]s suppressed in the [[U.S.]]''''' |
| | Great Britain is a founding member of [[NATO]], the Commonwealth, the UN Security Council, and various other international bodies. According to the United Nations, the UK rates very highly for "human development", democracy, and business opportunity. Socially Great Britain has changed dramatically over the last 100 years as the population has become more liberal, socialist, and secular. According to the UK census in 2011, approximately 26% of the population describe themselves as atheist, 60% as Christian (which has fallen to less than 50% as of 2023), 4.5% as Muslim, and the balance as other religions - actual religious observance of any type is relatively low in [[Great Britain]] among all the religious groups. | | Great Britain is a founding member of [[NATO]], the Commonwealth, the UN Security Council, and various other international bodies. According to the United Nations, the UK rates very highly for "human development", democracy, and business opportunity. Socially Great Britain has changed dramatically over the last 100 years as the population has become more liberal, socialist, and secular. According to the UK census in 2011, approximately 26% of the population describe themselves as atheist, 60% as Christian (which has fallen to less than 50% as of 2023), 4.5% as Muslim, and the balance as other religions - actual religious observance of any type is relatively low in [[Great Britain]] among all the religious groups. |