Le vendite di Bibbia in Gran Bretagna hanno raggiunto livelli record mentre gli esperti affermano che l’interesse per la religione tra la generazione Z ha portato ad un aumento del 134% negli ultimi sei anni
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15449037/Bible-sales-Britain-record-high-Gen-Z-Christian.html
di StGuthlac2025
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Which churches are all these Gen Z going to, then? Not any of the churches round my way.
Interesting it goes up after the twitter take over, I’ve noticed it’s riddled with Christianity grifters these days and I guess Gen Z don’t have enough exposure to the nastier sides of Christianity to understand why the generation before them rejected it.
That or they just actively like the nastier side and want more of that for whatever deranged reason, there seems to be a lot of psychopathic behaviour among Gen Z, a lot of them wanking off about crusaders and heretic burning online.
I guess immigrants also play a big part in that since thats around the Boris wave era as well, so who knows.
More Christians from Africa.
More religion is what we really don’t need.
Existential crisis is pretty common these days:
– War in Europe
– MAGA nutjobs impacting the strongest western military and our direct ally
– Climate change
– Corrupt politicians
– Sponsored news sites pushing bullshit
– AI impacts to jobs
Sadly its easier to just hope that a religion will make you feel better, then to actually fix these issues as a insignificant young person. don’t blame them really
The genius plan to increase non eu immigration, including from Christian African countries, then keep the anti immigrant bandwagon rolling whilst also claiming christianity is on the rise is playing out perfectly.
I live in a shared house and can see this happening in real time. For example, there were 7 of us, all English, non-religious housemates.
Over the last 6 years there’s still 7 of us, but now 3 Nigerians, all religious!
On the other hand, I can understand our Gen Z looking for something that brings them peace in a time of turmoil. It’s only natural to seek some kind of solitude and garner an easy explanation for the things occurring around them, opposed to learning the entire history of XYZ and trying to understand the various reasons for things that occur. I also totally empathise with not wanting death to be the only end of life, and if they find peace in the idea that something else occurs or they continue living elsewhere then good for them 👍
As a Millenial – I have vivid memories of pre-‘digital’ life with some of that of way of living still ingrained in me, which I’m 100% certain helps when dealing with the mixture of quality content and cesspit of the internet and especially social media. Basically you know what to roll your eyes at, or what to take seriously.
Gen Z are the first generation that grew up in the digital age as we know it now – internet, social media, smartphones (and watching their parents get hooked on smartphones) etc. So I’m surprised at the news, but also not surprised it’s that age group – I think it’s an attempt to detox a life away from screens to a more simpler (and older) one. If that’s what finds them some meaning or calmness, crack on.
I don’t think it’s a sudden cultural rebirth of the 1,400s though.
Well with the way things are going you may as well pray to a deity, because clearly nothing else is working is it! 😂
A positive story about Christianly on Reddit. Oof
Hope you’re ready for the beige safe edgy crowd.
American “christians” are pushing hard into the anglosphere and it’s not going to end well.
These are the “empathy is a sin, praise god by giving me all your money, vote for the hardest conservatives your area has” evangelicals getting their foot in the door, not the “invite the vicar round for tea” christians.
Look, people can have their faith and fair play to them for going this way. There isn’t an awful lot earth is offering them.
As long as it’s not using the cross to hide perry behaviour, preach violence and people actually properly engage in their faith, not like the Americans or someone like Russel Brand who found God when the law found him I’m all for it.
For me personally it’s not my thing but each to their own and if they’re finding happiness or comfort then go for it.
When the world and your surroundings feel completely hopeless, religion is a very attractive option.
My guess is that American Evangelical propaganda via social media is a big reason for this. A stepping stone towards UK-style maga.
There’s a lot of money being poured into this from foreign players.
Who bought the bibles? Individuals or organisations? That is white important to understand if this is an actual result of young people wanting them or if it is something else.
Is this not more to do with a converted effort among conservatives, here as well as in the US, to push puritanical Christianity in order to promote traditional, conservative values, whilst smuggling in some fairly outdated racial/sexual/gender based views?
I’m not sure it’s so much that gen z are rediscovering an interest in religion so much as they are having it aggressively marketed towards them as an antidote to more progressive values.
Honestly there’s probably a large percentage of gen z that buy it for a dumb skit they post on social media or for other offensive shit because that generation thrives off of trolling and ragebait. I can’t really see a generation that makes fun of literally everything taking something like religion seriously, especially when most prominent religious leaders come across strange and are always somehow involved in touching little children.
I’m not clicking on a Daily Mail link, do they actually go into numbers or just a %? Because if its just the % it means nothing. If 1 bible was sold last year and 3 have been sold this year, that’s a 200% increase, but still fuck all.
hmm no
I think a bit more research than the Daily Mail is capable of will show that recent immigrants from many countries are more likely to attend churches, such as people from Brazil and West Africa.
Using tiktok videos does not equal good quality research.
British born people are just as godless as always in the main.
NGL, I’m not religious (or Gen Z) but I have considered going along to a church at some point because my life is quite lonely and isolating, and I don’t have many friends or family nearby or colleagues to chat to.
Who purchases a bible? When I was Z’s age, they were given away/practically forced on me everywhere I went. If that’s stopped, that would explain the rise in purchases.
Religion will have us end up like America
Honestly i think personally Religion of any kind shouldn’t be thing there all just lies
Mad desperate times we live in.
Some feel the need to belong to something bigger.
Something I read in another article:
“In 2018, Anglicans (C of E and Church in Wales) made up 41 per cent of all churchgoers. This decreased to 34 per cent in 2024. Roman Catholic churchgoers have increased from 23 per cent to 31 per cent, while Pentecostals have increased from four per cent to ten per cent.”
“among 18-34s, only 20% of churchgoers are Anglican (down from 30% in 2018), with 41% Catholic and 18% Pentecostal.”
They want to present themselves as Christian but not want to live life of Christians – you can clearly see how shallow this sh*t is with f.e. “conservative life” influencers, all this american style tiktok pastors
I have a theory that the rise of Islam is potentially a cause for this.
Lack of community is one of the biggest social ills affecting the UK right now. For better or worse the Islamic family group and community is tight. People are seeking that and Christianity could be an answer.
>”The holy Bible may preach peace, but when it is Christendom itself that is threatened, it is every Christian’s duty to defend all that is holy. His Holiness, the Pope, has called a Crusade to reclaim the Holy Lands from the infidel, who would deny Christian pilgrims their right to visit the holy places. It is time for the armies of Christendom to put aside their differences and unite under one banner – the sign of the cross – and give back God’s children what is rightfully theirs… or die trying.”
**WE ARE SO BACK BABY!**
**Crusade 2026**
Well I’m not Gen Z, born a few years too early for that, but I’m probably one of the ones who come up in these sets of statistics. Baptised Roman Catholic at birth, spent my teenage years and early 20s a convinced atheist. For a variety of reasons, some philosophical and others personal, I came again to belief in God and began attending Mass again a few years ago. Really turned my life around and it’s a core part of how I live my life.
Anecdotally a lot of Gen Z seem to be reacting against the consumerist, hedonistic, materialistic culture they’ve inherited from older generations and are recognising the spiritual void at the heart of it, as well as the litany of broken and empty promises about how amazing it would be to be ‘liberated’ from all traditional constraints. Turns out it’s actually just deeply depressing and chaotic.
I also think – and I obviously can’t prove this – that it’s partly because of the growing ethnic and religious diversity among younger generations, in particular the number of Muslims. I don’t think it’s a hostile thing, even if you can find the crusader cosplayers on 4chan or whatever. I think a lot of young White British people are growing up with Muslim friends and schoolmates, and admire their faith. I think very few of them would consider becoming a Muslim, as it’s seen as too foreign still, but maybe it’s encouraged them to re-engage with their own religious inheritance which is Christianity and to see if it can do for them what Islam did for their friends and classmates.
I think for young men in particular, the fact it actually demands something of you is part of the appeal, and why it’s the Catholic, Orthodox and Pentecostal churches which are benefitting from increased church attendance, not the Church of England, Methodists, Quakers, etc. Practices of self-discipline like fasting are core components of Catholic and Orthodox faith, and the Catholics and Orthodox are ancient traditions which provide a model of spiritual growth and moral order for a lot of young men who’ve grown up lacking one due to having been raised in an increasingly materialist society.
Honestly, how can people find the stories of a cult leader early history the thing they want to commit themselves to.
Shit, have you never seen a weird, charismatic loon before?
This is fine. Freedom of religion is one of our fundamental principles as a first world, free society. Yes, they may believe some things that don’t make much sense to you or I. But then you may believe some things that don’t make much sense to them.
It’s okay for people to be different, diversity in society is fine.
The top comment on the Daily Mail article:
>I would love to see our beautiful and often ancient churches filled once again as long as the CofE keeps its nose out of stupid woke politics.
Jesus is literally all about “love thy neighbour” and “heal the sick” and “feed the hungry” woke politics. What are they going to talk about then?