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<blockquote data-quote="Ophiolite" data-source="post: 77569957" data-attributes="member: 234799"><p>Because of declining church memberships and attendances , and resulting impact upon finances, The Church of Scotland has had to close several churches and place them on the market for sale.</p><p></p><p>The excellent factual post by [USER=378863]@Larniavc[/USER] prompted me to check the census figures for Scotland to see if they supported my anecdotal observations about Church of Scotland church sales. Unfortunately, the census in Scotland was deferred till 2022 because of Covid and though the provisional results were published last year the religious affiliation data will not come out till this spring. This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Scotland" target="_blank">wikipedia article</a> presents a similar picture for decline of Christianity in Scotland. From 65.1% declaring themselves Christian in the 2001 census, this fell to 53.8% by 2011. It seems probable that this figure is now below 50%. </p><p></p><p>If the OPs view that a possible resurgence would be linked to the impact of Covid on attitudes then that's unlikely to show up in the 2022 census figures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ophiolite, post: 77569957, member: 234799"] Because of declining church memberships and attendances , and resulting impact upon finances, The Church of Scotland has had to close several churches and place them on the market for sale. The excellent factual post by [USER=378863]@Larniavc[/USER] prompted me to check the census figures for Scotland to see if they supported my anecdotal observations about Church of Scotland church sales. Unfortunately, the census in Scotland was deferred till 2022 because of Covid and though the provisional results were published last year the religious affiliation data will not come out till this spring. This [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Scotland']wikipedia article[/URL] presents a similar picture for decline of Christianity in Scotland. From 65.1% declaring themselves Christian in the 2001 census, this fell to 53.8% by 2011. It seems probable that this figure is now below 50%. If the OPs view that a possible resurgence would be linked to the impact of Covid on attitudes then that's unlikely to show up in the 2022 census figures. [/QUOTE]
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