LONDON (AFP) - Less than half of all Britons now believe in God, a sharp drop from the more than three-quarters of the population who said they were believers in 1968, according to a survey published.
A new YouGov survey found that only 44 percent believed in God, compared to a Gallup poll survey in 1968 which found that 77 percent believed in God.
A majority of people in Britain neither hopes nor fears for a life after death, with just about a third believing in heaven, and even fewer in hell and the devil. Young people especially are significantly less religious than older people, with more than a third describing themselves as either agnostics or atheists. - Yahoo! News
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The coming years will most likely separate the wheat from the chaff. It appears we may be in the Biblical "falling away" stage of the last days -- and those who fall away will be the "Christians of Convenience".
As to what is coming -- there are a lot of things we can speculate upon. However, there is one constant -- human nature. At the most fundamental level, humans are no different than they were when Christians were being fed to the lions. If the pendulum of our culture swings too far in the direction it seems to be heading, faithful Christians may again find themselves in the position of being, at best, objects of ridicule and at worst, outlaws.
I fear for my children and grandchildren.
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