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A Merry but Secular Christmas!

A Merry but Secular Christmas!

A YouGov Poll conducted last year in 2020 shows that the majority of those who celebrate Christmas (and Easter) in the UK do so in an entirely secular way. The survey results provide some useful evidence to support the view that religion does not play a significant role in British society, as this traditionally Christian and religious event seems now to have lost its religious meaning for the…

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Winston: "That's an interesting picture."

Junk shop owner: "It was a church. Do you know that word?"

Winston: "Yes. There were still churches when I was a child."

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Watched people are nice people

The secularisation of Europe - so lauded then, as now - presaged the greatest crimes of all times.

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Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man,

How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare!

"Christ," some one says, "was human as we are;

No judge eyes us from Heaven, our sin to scan;"

We live no more, when we have done our span."—

"Well, then, for Christ," thou answerest, "who can care?

From sin, which Heaven records not, why forbear?

Live we like brutes our life without a plan!"

So answerest thou; but why not rather say:

"Hath man no second life?—Pitch this one high!

Sits there no judge in Heaven, our sin to see?—

"More strictly, then, the inward judge obey!

Was Christ a man like us? Ah! let us try

If we then, too, can be such men as he!"

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Unfortunately for Mathew Arnold, who penned the above, Europeans did "the inward judge obey" - whether the nation, the Aryan race, or the proletariat. 

And today, Democracy - as the children of Iraq could have told you if alive.

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Evaluate the view that extent of secularisation has been exaggerated (20)

Evaluate the view that extent of secularisation has been exaggerated (20)

Using material from the item answer the question below

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Numerous surveys on religious belief and church attendance in the UK and around Europe suggest that people are becoming less religious year on year, leading many sociologists to theorise why secularisation is occurring.

However, other sociologists suggest that religion may be changing, rather than declining, especially when we…

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Non-Religious Countries Experience Greater Economic Growth! 

A shift away from religion may make countries more prosperous, according to a new study.

Using data on countries ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe, researchers analysed the relationship between values held by different nations and their Gross Domestic Product (GDPs).

They found that lack of religion tended to come before economic growth over the course of the 20th century – a discovery that…

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In the 20th century, secular chicken came before the economic egg

We have known for decades that secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Finding out why involves unpicking a complex knot of cognitive and social factors – an imposing task. So my small research team thought we’d ask a more straightforward question: was it the secular chicken that came first, or the economic egg?

Our recent paper in Scientific Advances shows that, in the 20th century, secularisation occurred before economic development and not the other way around. Although this doesn’t prove secularisation makes a country wealthier, it does rule out the reverse. The arrow of time points in one direction, so economic performance cannot be expected to influence people’s opinions in the past.

Global Gallup surveys give us a clear view of the relationship between secularisation and economic development – that the world’s poorest countries are also its most religious. But before the days of modern surveys, the steam-powered scholars of the early 20th century had already noticed that industrialised societies tended to be less religious than agrarian ones; though they disagreed on the interpretation.

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