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*[[Essay: Godless Britain's economic funk will likely endure. The USA will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future|Godless Britain's economic funk will likely endure. The USA will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future]]
*[[Essay: Godless Britain's economic funk will likely endure. The USA will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future|Godless Britain's economic funk will likely endure. The USA will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future]]
== Growth of British evangelical Christianity ==
''See also:'' [[British atheism]]
[[File:Union jack.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|Some 4.5million of the [[UK]]'s foreign-born population claim to have a religious affiliation and more than half are Christian.
Church attendance in Greater London grew by 16% between 2005 and 2012.<ref>[http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2013/london-churchgoing-and-other-news/ London Churchgoing and Other News]</ref> In addition, the latest immigrants to the UK as a whole mean British Christianity is becoming more charismatic and fundamentalist.<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100019857/im-not-surprised-evangelical-christianity-is-on-the-rise/ I'm not surprised Evangelical Christianity is on the rise] by Ed West, ''The Telegraph'', December 14th, 2009</ref>]]
The ''Christian Post'' reported on July 21, 2019, as far as [[Britain]]: "The percentage of respondents who said they were nondenominational Christians increased from 3% of the population in 1998 to 13% in 2018."<ref>[https://www.christianpost.com/world/only-38-brits-identify-christian-lowest-proportion-in-polls-history.html Only 38% of Brits identify as Christian; lowest proportion in poll's history], Christian Post, 2019</ref>
In December 2017, the ''Church Times'' reported:
{{Cquote|In 2016, the Centre for Theology and Community (CTC) published new research on Evangelical church-planting in east London, Love, Sweat and Tears (News, 8 April 2016, Features, 21 April). This confirmed the widely recognised image of Evangelicals as people who like to plant churches, but it also revealed that the way they work is not at all how people often imagine.
All of these Evangelical churches were planted in deprived areas, not suburbs; most of their members were local; one parish was cross-tradition; every parish was reaching people who do not attend church; and all of them were involved in social-action projects that served their local communities.<ref>[https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/8-december/comment/opinion/church-growth-is-not-just-for-evangelicals Church growth is not just for Evangelicals]</ref>}}
Due to religious immigrants, many of whom are [[evangelicalism|evangelical Christians]], church attendance in Greater [[London]] grew by 16% between 2005 and 2012.<ref>[http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2013/london-churchgoing-and-other-news/ London Churchgoing and Other News]</ref> In 2013, it was reported that 52% of people who attended church in London attended evangelical churches.<ref>[http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2013/london-churchgoing-and-other-news/ London Churchgoing and Other News]</ref>
On December 14, 2009, the British newspaper ''The Telegraph'' reported:
{{cquote|According to the Mail Evangelical Christianity is on the rise.
Some 4.5million of the [[UK]]'s foreign-born population claim to have a religious affiliation. Of these, around a quarter are Muslim while more than half are Christian – with Polish Catholics and African Pentecostals among the fastest-growing groups.
While traditional churchgoing is on the decline in the UK over the past decade, the latest immigrants mean Christianity is becoming more charismatic and fundamentalist.
'Perhaps the most significant change has been the growth of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity within migrant populations, particularly those from Africa and Latin America,' the report found.
'In Lewisham, there are 65 Pentecostal churches serving the Nigerian community, and others serving the Congolese, Ghanaian and Ivorian communities.'
Professor Mike Kenny of IPPR said: 'The research shows that recent waves of inward migration have given a boost to some of the UK's established faith communities at a time when Britain's society and culture are generally more secular, and smaller numbers of the indigenous population are regularly attending churches.
'Recent migration trends are altering the faith map of the UK. Their biggest impact is being felt in some of our largest cities: London above all, where a rich mosaic of different faith communities has come into being.'
Evangelical Christianity might be heavily African-influenced but it’s also spreading among the natives as well.<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100019857/im-not-surprised-evangelical-christianity-is-on-the-rise/ I'm not surprised Evangelical Christianity is on the rise] by Ed West, ''The Telegraph'', December 14th, 2009</ref>}}
See also:
*[http://www.the-american-interest.com/berger/2013/12/18/pentecostalism-invades-lambeth-palace/ Pentecostalism Invades Lambeth Palace] by [[Peter L. Berger]]
== Cowardly, irreligious British vs. British, Muslim terrorists and British, Muslim groomer gangs ==
== Cowardly, irreligious British vs. British, Muslim terrorists and British, Muslim groomer gangs ==