Rangers fans' fury as Scots family's mug blurred out on Gogglebox

[Frankie 8,570]

"More than six out of ten people said that their religion was Christian (65%): 42% Church of Scotland, 16% Roman Catholics and 7% Other Christian. After Christianity, Islam was the most common faith with 77 thousand people in Scotland describing their religion as Muslim.22 Dec 2015"

 

Taken from the Scottish Government's on statistics. Church of Scotland being the largest religion.

 

I'd imagine if you pressed such people further their religious status would be nominal.

 

For all intents and purposes Scotland (and the UK) is a secular country IMO.

[pj_1872 0]

Unbelievable that this is front page news. Embarrassing stuff.

 

I noticed that another guy on the show had a West Ham mug which wasn't blurred out. Then again, there probably wasn't thousands of complaints from numbskulls about that.

[ian1964 10,724]

Unbelievable that this is front page news. Embarrassing stuff.

 

I noticed that another guy on the show had a West Ham mug which wasn't blurred out. Then again, there probably wasn't thousands of complaints from numbskulls about that.

 

 

 

Watchdog Ofcom told The Scottish Sun it has had no complaints about the cup.

 

Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/rangers-fans-left-furious-gogglebox-7691306#qaEzhTmXwKRKFZlr.99

[Frankie 8,570]

Watchdog Ofcom told The Scottish Sun it has had no complaints about the cup.

 

Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/rangers-fans-left-furious-gogglebox-7691306#qaEzhTmXwKRKFZlr.99

 

Aye but C4 will have.

[ian1964 10,724]

Aye but C4 will have.

 

[calscot 0]

I'd imagine if you pressed such people further their religious status would be nominal.

 

For all intents and purposes Scotland (and the UK) is a secular country IMO.

 

It all depends on the question and the loose semantics of being religious. The funny thing being, I'd guess over half the answers are the actual religions that the people DON'T follow. The question is probably interpreted as, "Are you a protestant atheist or a catholic atheist?" Well, actually more like, "Which religion were you brought up in?"

[calscot 0]

BTW The 2011 census put it at 32.4% with Catholic at 15.9%, which kind of explains the equalish number of Rangers and Celtic fans seeing as most Catholics around the whole country seem to support Celtic (maybe with the exception of Edinburgh and Dundee) while just because you see yourself as protestant does not mean you support Rangers - although you are more likely. It means Protestants are far more spread more around the 42 teams than Catholics.

 

I would guess the non-religious would be fairly evenly split between the OF, if they don't support another team, like what you would expect in say Liverpool or Manchester, had the two clubs in question been more evenly successful.

[aweebluesoandso 290]

I'd imagine if you pressed such people further their religious status would be nominal.

 

For all intents and purposes Scotland (and the UK) is a secular country IMO.

 

I take what you're saying Frankie, but yet 42% said they were Church Of Scotland ie Protestant, so that makes us the majority religion. Secular or not a lot of people believe in a creator, mine happens to be the Great Architect,

[BEARGER 1,830]

There is a non-RC majority though.

 

You will not start any arguments with that statement.

[BEARGER 1,830]

"More than six out of ten people said that their religion was Christian (65%): 42% Church of Scotland, 16% Roman Catholics and 7% Other Christian. After Christianity, Islam was the most common faith with 77 thousand people in Scotland describing their religion as Muslim.22 Dec 2015"

 

Taken from the Scottish Government's on statistics. Church of Scotland being the largest religion.

 

Latest poll from a couple of days ago.

 

More than half of Scots have no religion according to poll

STV

2 days ago

 

Attendance at religious services is at the lowest level recorded since 1999.

 

 

Worship: Attendances at religious services has dropped. Thomas Nugent http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/4827

More than half of people in Scotland now have no religion, according to new research.

 

Findings from the Scottish Social Attitudes survey show 52% of people say they are not religious, compared with 40% in 1999 when the survey began.

 

The proportion who say they belong to the Church of Scotland has fallen from 35% in 1999 to just a fifth (20%).

 

Other religious groups, including Roman Catholic (15%), other Christian (11%) and non-Christian (2%), have remained steady.

 

The research published by ScotCen Social Research also reveals attendance at religious services is at the lowest level recorded since 1999.

 

Two-thirds (66%) of Scots who say they are religious "never or practically never" attend services, compared with 49% when the survey began.

 

Ian Montagu, researcher at ScotCen, said: "Today's findings show that Scottish commitment to religion, both in terms of our willingness to say we belong to a religion and to attend religious services, is in decline.

 

"However, this change doesn't appear to be affecting all religions equally. Affiliation with the Church of Scotland is in decline while levels of identification with other religions remain relatively unchanged.

 

"As fewer Scots are acknowledging even a default religious identity, it is affiliation with the national church that is the hardest hit."

 

The 2015 Scottish Social Attitudes survey interviewed a representative random probability sample of 1,288 people between July 2015 and January 2016.

 

As Frankie has said Scotland is a secular country now, and all the better for it IMO.