The British Humanist Association is on the march once again. Britain beware! Whatever they’re for, we’re against – right? Well in this case, wrong. What they’re calling for this time is that on the next census form (2011) the question that asks us what religion we are is specific enough for those who are not practising any religion to be able to say so.

And personally I’m all in favour of this change. The last census (2001) had Christians at 70% or more of the UK population. But does anyone reading this blog think this is a true reflection of the faith today? I doubt it. The really ironic thing is that those who are more conservative in their faith – and who therefore define what a Christian is in fairly narrow terms – are very happy to use this statistic to portray the UK as a Christian country and call for Christian policies from government. This is nonsense – and possibly a little dishonest as well.

Church Mouse dissects the BHA’s campaign in a bit more detail here and suggests they may not be too concerned about the facts themselves. Whatever the detail, though, I find myself in favour of their call for change - let's have a  Census that reflects what Britain is really like.

What about you?

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