Lizz Murphy - Poem 220: Lilt xxxi. The rise of the non-religious

THE RISE OF THE NON-RELIGIOUS

Of course, we are not arguing that the movement
of the Holy Spirit can be mathematically modelled

The church of my own childhood is a showroom and a restaurant  another reduced to brick and rubble as we watch the atrium still eerily standing like some portal to a broken hereafter There is a steep decline in the faithful or another way to put it: 150 years of the rise of the non-religious There are statistics and graphs percentages and fractions predictions and mathematical models of the committed the affiliated the non-religious The non-religious are mixed: no religion, atheists, Jedi Knights, heavy metals, free thinkers and those ‘other’ Protestants are a minority and there is no hope for reconversion


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Reference:
'Collapsing Churches in Northern Ireland?' Saints and Sceptics 
Accessed online: August 11, 2016 URL: www.saintsandsceptics.org