More bad news for British, militant atheists: Anglicanism, Evangelical Christianity,charismatic/pentecostal Christianity and Islam are growing in the UK. Non-religious portion of the UK sees a decline

According to a 2016 BBC documentary, pentecostal Christianity is the fastest growing form of Christianity in the UK. In 2016, there were 500,000 pentecostal Christians in the UK according to the documentary.

In 2010, the American sociologist Peter L. Berger said of pentecostalism :  "One can say with some confidence that modern Pentecostalism must be the fastest growing religion in human history."

In 2016, Christianity Today declared:

Christianity in Britain is seeing a "seismic shift" as more aging churches are closing down and giving way to new and vibrant Pentecostal and charismatic churches that are drawing more and more people of various ages and races.
Assessing the state of Christianity in Britain, a recent Religion News Service report pointed out that in the past six years, 168 Church of England churches have closed, along with 500 Methodist and 100 Roman Catholic churches. 

But even as aging Church of England congregations decline, charismatic churches are sprouting and welcoming new members into their fold.
According to an analysis by The Times of London, for every Anglican church that has closed over the past six years, more than three Pentecostal or charismatic churches have taken their place. 

Unlike the old churches, the Pentecostal and charismatic churches are drawing people of all ages and races, including black, Asian and mixed-race people.
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In fact the Pentecostal church is considered as one of the fastest growing Christian churches in the world, with an estimated 500 million followers, the report said. 

The Pentecostal church is reportedly bringing renewed hope to many people in Britain as attested by its growing membership. 

"I am optimistic that we will see this nation come back to God," said Pastor Agu Irukwu of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The Pentecostal group, founded in Nigeria, now has 600 congregations across England. 

"A century ago the face of European Christianity could have been labeled as white, but now it is increasingly becoming multicoloured," Israel Olofinjana, a Nigerian-born minister in London, told the Times.

In 2014, First Things published an article on the growing movement of charismatic Christianity/pentocostalism in the Church of England.

Conatus News reported today:

Church of England worshippers increase 0.8 per cent since 2009. The number of non-religious people falls from 50.65% to 48.6% 

Rise in Church of England worshippers likely due to resurgence in patriotism and pride in Christianity, a report has found 

According to a new report, for every person brought up in a non-religious household who becomes a churchgoer, 26 people raised as Christians now identify as non-believers. 

The study, which is based on an analysis of the British Social Attitudes Survey and the European Social Survey, reported that the proportion of non-religious in the UK hit a high of 50.6 per cent in 2009. However, it has been decreasing ever since and hit 48.6 per cent in 2015. 

However, the proportion of those who identify as Church of England worshippers has seen a slight increased from 16.3 per cent in 2009 to 17.1 per cent in 2015.

A 2012 report shows that evangelicalism is rising in the UK (see: UK: The rise of evangelicalism is shaking up the established church ).

In April of 2011, Thomas Seymat reports in an article entitled Immigrants strengthen Christianity in the UK that half of the new immigrants to the UK that 50% of recent immigrants to the UK are Christian.

Thomas Seymat declares:

...African Pentecostals are the fastest-growing denominations. “In Lewisham, there are 65 Pentecostal churches serving the Nigerian community, and others serving the Congolese, Ghanian and Ivorian communities,” says the report. It adds, “perhaps the most significant change has been the growth of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity within migrant populations, particularly those from Africa and Latin America.”

This trend of increasing Christian migrants has not gone unnoticed by religious observers. Dr Joe Aldred, secretary of the Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs section of the Churches Together in England (CTE) tweeted on @joealdred : “At national Church Planting Consultation. Didn’t know so much going on planting new churches. Christianity making a come back in Britain?”

In the past, the new atheist Richard Dawkins referred to Bible believing/evangelical Christianity as a type of "muscular Christianity".  Given its growth in the UK, this type of Christianity appears to be kicking quite a bit of proverbial sand in the faces of UK militant atheists at the beach. And globally, atheism is losing its market share in terms its percentage of the world population.

Militant atheists, you have no proof and evidence that atheism is valid. And there is plenty of evidence that Christianity is true (see: See: Evidence for Christianity vs. evidence for atheism)  Militant atheists, isn't it time you abandoned your scrawny and dying atheism?

In addition, as can by one of the videos below, Islam is growing fast in the UK.

The British journalist and author Peter Hitchens (the Christian brother of the late Christopher Hitchens who was a prominent atheist) said that the new atheist Richard Dawkins has no real influence on British Muslims and that they could care less about what he says.

Specifically, Peter Hitchens said in February of 2017:

I don't think the Muslim are particularly worried about Richard Dawkins... They don't care what he says. They are not impressed. Their beliefs are unaffected by this sort of thing. 

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Muslims in the UK

A thermonuclear bomb of Christianity has hit the region formerly known as "godless Britain"

In 2011, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach published an article in the Jerusalem Post entitled Godlessness has doomed Britain.

However, in the article  entitled A 3,000 pound Western atheism car is no match for a 1,000,000 pound global desecularization freight train I wrote:

Western academics are often uncomfortable talking about desecularization and religions which stress the supernatural. Yet, the American sociologist Peter Berger (who is a Lutheran)  recently indicated, "One can say with some confidence that modern Pentecostalism must be the fastest growing religion in human history."  Berger also said that he previously thought that Pentecostalism did not have a significant future in Europe, but he now sees signs that it might see significant growth in Europe (see: Pentecostalism Invades Lambeth Palace).

Pentecostalism often grows fast in areas undergoing economic distress. Post 2007 there are concerns that Western economies which have high sovereign debt loads could see some significant economic turmoil in coming years - especially the European countries with aging populations that have been struggling in terms of economic growth.

On March 29, 2016, the Religion News Service reported:

In the past six years, 168 Church of England churches have closed, along with 500 Methodist and 100 Roman Catholic churches.

“Christianity in Britain has seen a relentless decline for over 100 years,” says Linda Woodhead, a sociologist at Lancaster University.

Visitors to Britain are often shocked when they see the state of some of this nation’s once-proud church buildings.

But for every Anglican church that has closed over the past six years, more than three Pentecostal or charismatic churches have taken their place, according to an analysis by The Times of London.

These Pentecostal and charismatic churches are drawing young, black, Asian and mixed-race people.

Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing movements in world Christendom, with an estimated 500 million followers.

“A century ago the face of European Christianity could have been labeled as white, but now it is increasingly becoming multicolored,” said Israel Olofinjana, a Nigerian-born minister in London told the Times.

While aging Church of England congregations decline, charismatic churches thrive.

At a conference the academic Eric Kaufmann said of religious demographic projections concerning the 21st century:

 Part of the reason I think demography is very important, at least if we are going to speak about the future, is that it is the most predictable of the social sciences.

...if you look at a population and its age structure now. You can tell a lot about the future. ...So by looking at the relative age structure of different populations you can already say a lot about the future...

...Religious fundamentalism is going to be on the increase in the future and not just out there in the developing world..., but in the developed world as well.

British pentecostals will have more children per household then their irreligious counterparts (see: Atheism and fertility rates).

"Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire." - Hebrews 12:12: 28-29 (NASB)

"Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous; And the wisdom of their wise men will perish, And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed." - Isaiah 20:14 (NASB)

"For it is written, "I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE." - 1 Corinthians 1:19 (NASB)

"When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance" - Acts 2: 1-4

Below is a video of hydrogen bomb Tsar bomba which was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever exploded. I assure you that God can do far more destruction to global atheism. Atheists surrender now and make things easy on yourselves.

1 million more reasons why British atheism is doomed

In my my most recent post, I demonstrated that British atheism is crumbling and British Evangelical Christianity is on the rise.

Now consider one million more reasons why British atheism is doomed.

Migrants to Britain often come from poor and religious regions of the world such as Africa and the Middle East.

Britain's newspaper the Daily Express just just reported:

BRITAIN is home to at least 1.1m illegal immigrants who may never be deported, it was revealed today.
Latest figures suggest that for every person caught trying to sneak into the UK illegally, 130 have already made it.

A Daily Express investigation revealed 84,088 people were caught trying to slip across the border last year, equivalent to 230 a day or one every six minutes.

Yet Migration Watch think 1.1m was a "plausible estimate" of the number in Britain who had managed to sneak in, adding "there is every likelihood the number could now be considerably higher".

A fresh row over the UK's porous borders erupted after former Border Agency chief Rob Whiteman warned not enough attention was being paid to the number of non-EU migrants working here without permission....

The government does not have the resources or political levers to deport hundreds of thousands of people."...

"We have insufficient naval resources to protect our coastline with MPs reporting the 'worryingly low number of boats' but this is not news: the Royal Navy would be in administration had it been a public company.

"By cutting Border Force numbers and the massive under funding of the military the UK government, along with the EU, has made people trafficking a very profitable and quite easy business.

"And when there are large numbers in the UK the government's response is to roll over and declare an amnesty - so I can't see anything changing in the near future."

Immigrants have more children

The Daily Express also reports::

The UK is now home to more families containing four or more children than at any time since the early 1970s.

The average Afghan-born woman living in the UK has 4.25 children and the average Somali-born woman has 4.19 children.

The average for Pakistani women is 3.82. UK-born women have an average of 1.79 children, according to the data from European statistics agency Eurostat.

That compares with 2.19 for women living in the UK who were born in one of the 12 eastern European states, and 1.52 for women born in western European countries...

 Ann Buchanan, professor of social work at Oxford University, said the growing number of large families is driven by rising levels of immigration.

Videos on illegal immigration and Britain