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A while ago our census across the UK told us that Christianity has become a minority religion, no other religions have taken over though.

It seems more and more people are becoming non religious, which as someone who likes history it’s fascinating to think about, Christianity wise when the population used to be majority Christian, from that, we have so many old churches dotted over this island that dates back to our history via our religion.

And it seems I also prove that census since I am also non religious. However unlike people who grew up religious and stopped, I never was religious as I grew up in a non religious family.

My mum firmly believes anyone can believe what they want. My Dad believes that religion only causes trouble and there have been a fair few arguments between them on this topic.

I’m on my Mums side that anyone can believe what they want, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else or they try and force their opinion on others.

Since I started as non religious, I never had that moment where someone who used to be religious decides otherwise and I always wondered what that was like, the change in how you view the world must be amazing moment and visa versa.

However as someone non religious I have said this on another prompt, I do hope I am wrong. I can’t make myself believe in something that in my eyes has no solid proof but I still hope I am wrong.

For a simple selfish reason, religion always talks about an afterlife and I hope there is something after life. Because I don’t believe in an after life I think who we our, our conscience just ceases to exist when our brain stops working.

I have read reseach where they are not certain but they say the brain replays back memories as you die so it is indeed like a “life flashing before your eyes thing” but that also scares me because to me it does really sound like your brain is giving you a final goodbye, before you cease to exist.

I believe that there a big con and pro me specifically for being non religious. My con is I will always be terrified of not existing! I don’t understand anyone who says they are ready for death or accept it! No way! Another horrible thought is even though I am young currently or at least I am still in my twenties, there will be still so much unknowns and so many things I will miss out on once I am gone, I am sure this is a thought for most people though 😭 Like I want to know what happens, even if there is another world war or something, I want to know! 😭

While pro is, because of my cons I always think I have to live my life to the fullest in my eyes because I won’t get another chance! I have heard some religious people wonder how non religious people live their life, since they don’t believe in an afterlife and I’ll tell you! We live it to the fullest and do what we can to make us our lives happy and fulfilled with as little as regrets as possible because for us, this life is all we have! And I think that attitude has really helped me make some tough choices and have thrown myself out of my comfort zone because well, for me, even though I hope I am wrong, I only have this one life!