Religious belief 'falling faster than church attendance'
Organised religion is in near-terminal decline in Britain because parents have only a 50-50 chance of passing on belief to their offspring, a study claimed yesterday.
By contrast, parents without faith are successful in producing a new generation of non-believers, it said.
The report identified institutional religion as having a "half-life" of one generation, as children are only half as likely as their parents to say that it is important in their lives.
The generational decline is too advanced to reverse, the report suggested, as the proportion of people who believe in God is declining faster than church attendance....