News.com.au wrote:YOUNG Australians are increasingly becoming a generation of non-believers or at least seem to be, according to an analysis of the 2006 census.
Secularisation is an emerging trend, the Australian Bureau of Statistics statistician's report finds.
Since the 1971 census, when the "no religion" option was included for the first time, the number of people declaring no denomination has nearly trebled from 6.7 per cent to 18.7 per cent.
The shift is largely because of young people who are more likely to state no religion on their census forms.
In 2006, 7.9 per cent of Australians 65 and older did not specify a religion, compared to 23.5 per cent of those in the 15-34 age group.
An affiliation with Christianity has dropped since 1911, when 96 per cent of people called themselves Christian compared to 64 per cent in 2006.
The proportion of Catholics has grown over the same period - up from 22 to 26 per cent - while Anglicans dropped from 38 to 19 per cent.
The decline was due in part to an increase in migrants from Catholic-based countries, rather than the United Kingdom.
Hurrah!
It's nice to see that even though groups like Hillsong are turning over crazy amounts of loot, more people are seeing through their imaginary bullshit.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
I am sure we could use this as ammunition next time some one writes to the local paper about how brains are hard wired to believe in God.
Never apologise for being a geek, because they won't apologise to you for being an arsehole. John Barrowman - 22 June 2014 Perth Supernova.
Countries I have been to - 14.
Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, USA.
Always on the lookout for more nice places to visit.
