In severe times, sacrifices are good

“Muslims and Hindus are taking over England and Wales!” That’s how it sounded this week when the British media announced the decline of Christendom after the results of the 2021 census began to roll in. Even The Guardian, the Kingdom’s equivalent of Dagens Nighter, ranted in its headline that Christians are not the majority.

Muslims now make up less than seven percent of Britain’s population, Hindus more than one-and-a-half. Forty-six percent—less, in fact, than half—call themselves Christians. But be surprised if another thirty-seven percent say they don’t belong to any religion.

It’s not brave The guess is that people who call themselves atheists grew up in Christian homes: more recent groups, for better or worse, don’t rebel against their own traditions in the same way. If you combine the two groups with Christians and atheists, you get a good eighty-two percent majority with the same old culturally Christian Britons; Whether or not they enjoy sitting in pews and contemplating the Holy Mysteries of the Trinity is not so important. (Incidentally, another group of about seven percent refused to even answer the question.

The only dramatic thing that happened after 2011 was that many more people went… and became atheists, which must have been deeply disappointing to followers of the Great Population Transfer theory. It is definitely recognizable from Sweden. I’ve never been exposed to missionaries by Muslims or Hindus in my life, and you probably won’t be either. On the other hand, militant atheists, led by humanists, breathe 24-hour news. Are you lucky enough to have forgotten them anyway? Stay tuned Lucia, the discussion articles will be back.

British and American censuses are strange events. Done well, they make very blunt instruments, good to remember now that the Swedish government is considering importing misery. Results can always be manipulated for political purposes.

Are you a human like me? Fundamentally positive about immigration and the reception of refugees, it fails to mention that the percentage of Muslims in England and Wales, however you spin it, has increased by forty-two percent in ten years. Or one in six Britons was born abroad. Or different minorities are now narrow majorities in Birmingham and Leicester.

The Prime Minister of the country is a Hindu. The Mayor of London is a Muslim. Does that make them less British? Perhaps more importantly, does it make the whole of Britain less British? So, is that a bad thing?

It depends, one can safely say. And it’s not by any clever reasoning.

Law of Statistics That is, not in our senses. Do richer, older countries like the UK and Sweden need more people for their tried and tested medical devices? Undoubtedly, if we ask any knowledgeable person. Do the majority of refugees and migrants commit crimes? Absolutely not: the vast majority work and pay taxes. But that doesn’t matter. We never get past the fact that the frequency of our Jimmy moments depends on how we feel.

The British, it must be said, are not feeling well at the moment. The OECD consists of thirty-eight member countries; Among them only Russia is now doing worse economically than England.

Inflation is rampant here and threatens – with what appears to be a winter marked by massive public sector strikes – to bring the island nation back to the disastrous Seventies. In the apartment where I live, it is seventeen degrees during the day. Agreement, here at home and to the great public shock, the elements should not be turned on until the temperature drops below the fifteen mark. Because it would certainly be cheaper, but it is a patriotic duty not to play into Putin’s hands.

In such difficult times, scapegoats are good. I want to remind you that it is Russia, not the Muslims, who is working to make this winter as bad as possible.