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The local authority in England with the highest level of irreligion was Norwich, the county town of Norfolk, where the level was 42.5%. [citation needed] Religion has the least influence on youth. [16] According to the 2011 census, 25% of England has no religion, 7% of Northern Ireland, [17] one third in Scotland and one-third of Wales. [18]
For fifteen years following the end of World War II he was an Appointed Lecturer for the South Place Ethical Society, [6] where his lectures were very popular [4] and respected by his colleagues. [12] He died in Oxford on 14 October 1961. [11] Robertson was married; his wife Sylvia survived him. [5]
James Callaghan: Welsh Labour Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979, Callaghan was an atheist since his teenage years according to multiple biographers and friends who knew him at the time. [172] Keir Starmer (1962–): Leader of the Labour Party (UK) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024. [178] [172]
Saraswathi Gora (1912–2006): Indian social activist, wife of Gora and leader of the Atheist Centre for many years, campaigning against untouchability and the caste system. [25] John William Gott (1866–1922): English trouser salesman and leader of the Freethought Socialist League, the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy ...
This category is a subcategory of Category:Atheists which has this description: This category contains Atheists, who have expressed being an atheist,
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Atheist as a label of practical godlessness was used at least as early as 1577. [14] The term atheism was derived from the French athéisme, [15] and appears in English about 1587. [16] An earlier work, from about 1534, used the term atheonism. [17] [18] Related words emerged later: deist in 1621, [19] theist in 1662, [20] deism in 1675, [21 ...