Seven years ago David gave a TEDx talk entitled ‘Why there is no way back for religion in the West’. It has been viewed 1.8 million times. Six months ago, he featured in a humorous video by YouTube personality Max Fosh, whose tale that ‘I technically started the third largest religion in the country’ has reached two million views. In this talk, at Humanists UK Convention 2023, David tries to find the moral to this story in a whistle-stop tour of religious decline, social change, and the rise of humanist values. He will look at what the census and various surveys tell us about the state of religion in the UK.
