Fewer than half of people in England and Wales describe themselves as Christian for the first time, Census 2021 finds bbc.in/3XBjuND
@BBCBreaking But will celebrate CHRISTmas probably anyway 🤔
@Patrick__Whelan @BBCBreaking Christmas is commercialised. This country were Pagans before Christianity. Britain is an island having 300 years of immigration. Different religious beliefs. Some only go on Xmas eve for the Carol singing or nativity plays. Also weddings/funerals. I'm agnostic. #Christian
@Patrick__Whelan @BBCBreaking Christmas is just rebranded Saturnalia
@Patrick__Whelan @BBCBreaking You mean, the one that began as a celebration of Mithra, the Roman sun god and was then combined with pagan winter festivals to keep the natives happy?
@Patrick__Whelan @BBCBreaking It's almost like Christmas was plonked on top of numerous other pre-Christian winter festivals and has intermingled with numerous other European traditions to create a cultural gift-giving festival that you can participate in without the weird imported religious bit or something.
@Patrick__Whelan @BBCBreaking You might want to google "Yule"
@Patrick__Whelan @BBCBreaking people have always celebrated the sun rising earlier in the sky long before religions claimed the idea as their own