Age Brits are most likely to believe in God revealed as expert claims ‘He’s making a comeback’
Age Brits are most likely to believe in God revealed as expert claims ‘He’s making a comeback’
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YOUNG people are bigger believers in God and spirituality than their elders, one of the biggest surveys into religion in the past 10 years has found. The study of 10,000 people found Gen Z is increasingly turning to the divine to help them cope with an ever-complex world.
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Just 13 per cent of those born after 1996 identify as an atheist, but this figure increases to 22 per cent of Boomers. Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, are the most likely to be atheists, with 25 per cent not believing in something higher than themselves.
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And while 82 per cent of Gen Z describe themselves as spiritual and believe in things beyond the physical world, this falls to 65 per cent of Gen X and 63 per cent of Boomers. It emerged Gen Z are more likely than other generations to believe in God due to a need to connect with something bigger than themselves (29 per cent).
They are also far more likely to believe God is the best explanation to how the world began (25 per cent to 18 per cent of all Brits). And the younger generation is also more likely to believe in the afterlife compared to the average adult (24 per cent to 21 per cent).
The survey was commissioned by Christopher Gasson, a journalist and Sunday school teacher at Oxford’s University Church, to mark the release of his book ‘The Devils' Gospels: Finding God in Four Great Atheist Books’. It is one of the largest polls into religion and spirituality in Britain to be undertaken in the past decade.
