UK Church Survey says Pews Emptying Because Christianity no Longer Preached

It doesn't take an election to unleash pent-up conservative voices. Sometimes all people need is a willing ear (or reader, as the case might be)...

LONDON, March 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With Christian moral values and legal protections under assault on all sides, it is commonly said that the reason pews are emptying is that traditional religion is not relevant. A new survey of thousands of churchgoers in the UK says the opposite however, and indicates that the emptying of the churches has been caused mainly by preaching and pastoral care that has been emptied of moral or doctrinal Christian content. The survey addressed questions about why church attendance was falling so dramatically in the UK but growing elsewhere, even though two-thirds of the British population believes in God...

The poll on which this article is based can be read at http://www.plain-truth.org.uk/churchsurveyreport.pdf. It might be noted that in among all the others on the acknowledgements page are thanks to BBC radio for getting word out about the survey.