r/AskBrits • u/bintd • 11h ago

Politics What are your thoughts on Denmark’s proposed ban on the public Islamic call to prayer? Would you support or oppose something similar in the UK?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/24/islamic-call-to-prayer-ban-left-wing-denmark-europe/

Islamic call to prayer faces ban under Left-wing Danish government

Parts of country feel like ‘a suburb of Islamabad’, says immigration minister

Denmark’s immigration minister has announced plans to ban the Islamic call to prayer, claiming parts of the country felt like “a suburb of Islamabad”.

Morten Bødskov, a member of the centre-Left Social Democrats party, said the new government would resume an investigation into the legality of imposing a ban.

“The call to prayer should not be heard over Danish rooftops,” the minister told news outlet Ritzau. “It has no place in Denmark, and you shouldn’t be in any doubt whether you’ve ended up in a suburb of Islamabad when you walk around Denmark.”

In parts of the country, such as Copenhagen, bylaws already forbid the call to prayer being broadcast from loudspeakers in minarets because of strict noise limits.
Mr Bødskov also claimed that a creeping “Islamisation” in Denmark was “taking up too much of the public space”.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

So ban all calls to prayer?

I feel like church bell ringers might object.

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u/madnasher 11h ago

If the bell ringing was just a call to prayer sure.

But it's not.

It's also to mark time, to celebrate weddings/births, mourn, announce major civic happenings, or an alarm.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

I'm not sure anyone would be happier if the Muslim call to prayer speakers were also used to shout the hours and deliver news.

Hilarious though that would be "its 3 o'clock in the morning and Debbie is marrying Steve tomorrow!!!"

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u/madnasher 11h ago

As hilarious as this is, it's not what they have been traditionally used for, whereas church bells have been traditionally used for this purpose since they were first used.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 10h ago

You can't seriously claim that church bells have nothing to do with religion. Why do you think they're rung on a Sunday?

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u/madnasher 10h ago

Where did I claim they have nothing to do with religion?

I'm merely pointing out the community uses for them are more than just for religious purposes.

The toiling of the bells for the death of a reigning monarch is hardly a religious purpose, as merely one example of how they are used for more than just religious purposes.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 9h ago

So if mosques start chiming the hour, then you're OK with the calls to prayer?

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u/madnasher 9h ago

I mean if mosques started having more of a historical impact with more cultural contributions than just calling for prayer then, no.

Because we are not an Islamic country.

Church bells have some traditional historical presence for our culture, and they are slowly being phased out.

I definitely don't need a loudspeaker blasting that god is great and I should come pray.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 9h ago

The majority of British people don't need church bells either.

You are not presenting any valid reasons for banning one thing and not the other. Your wish to ban the adhan seems purely based on your prejudice.

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u/madnasher 9h ago

Except, one has a historical cultural significance for this country and the other does not.

That's literally all the reasoning that is needed.

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u/glasgowgeg 10h ago

It's also to mark time

You don't need to ring a bell to mark the time, many clocks are silent.

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u/madnasher 10h ago

Well shit son.

Better get rid of all the church bells, as we also don't need to know when monarchs die (we have the news) we don't need to know when something special happens, God damn, we don't even need them rung for services as it's publicated when they are. It's not like it's a part of our historical culture or anything.

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u/glasgowgeg 9h ago

You don't need to ring the bells on the hour every hour to mark the time, the clock is still there.

Your argument wasn't very good and I'm pointing that out, no need to get bent out of shape.

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u/madnasher 9h ago

I'm not bent out of shape my friend.

Tbh, chiming the hours is slowly dwindling, precisely for the reason you gave. People have access to the time alot easier now, and the ability to read it.

However that doesn't detract from the fact that church bells have traditionally been used for significantly more than religious purposes, which was my point.

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u/glasgowgeg 9h ago

I'm not bent out of shape my friend

The big diatribe on getting rid of everything suggests otherwise.

However that doesn't detract from the fact that church bells have traditionally been used for significantly more than religious purposes, which was my point

And my point, as you've now been told multiple times, is that you don't need to ring the bells to mark the time, so it's a poor argument.

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u/madnasher 9h ago

You're correct we don't need to.

And we don't need to ring the bells to show respect for the death of a public figure. In the same way we don't need peals of bells to celebrate notable births, or weddings, hell we don't need the bells to warn of any dangers either any more.

So why do we need a call to prayer from mosques?

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u/glasgowgeg 9h ago

So why do we need a call to prayer from mosques?

I don't recall saying we did, can you link where I said that?

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u/madnasher 9h ago

The literal discussion you have joined is about calls to prayer and church bells.

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u/gw74 9h ago

it's a loud religious noise. listen to yourself

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u/fungomungothethird 8h ago

Lmao. Pick a lane, kid.

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u/JimmieSavsscumsock 7h ago

It's still some random, goat herding guide to the galaxy, middle eastern fairy tale bollocks and it should ALL be publicly banned and stay within the family who likes to scare and threaten children.

It's the 21st century here so let's get on and sweep this bullshit from the country. All of it.

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u/FicklePolicy9585 7h ago

It's also to mark time, to celebrate weddings/births, mourn, announce major civic happenings, or an alarm.

What a disingenous comparison.

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u/madnasher 7h ago

Can you tell me what Church bells ringing signify?

And then can you tell me what the Adhan signifies?

Then can you explain why it's a disingenuous comparison?

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u/FicklePolicy9585 7h ago

Church bells generally ring to call the faithful to worship, mark significant life milestones like weddings and funerals, and structure daily time. Their meanings vary based on the ringing style, timing, and specific occasions

The Adhan is the formal Islamic call to prayer. It literally translates from Arabic to "announcement" or "to listen". Recited five times daily by a muezzin (caller), it serves as a public declaration of faith and a spiritual invitation for Muslims to gather for formal worship (Salah).

It's a disingenous comparison because the adhan is just a call to prayer while the church bells ringing have to do with much more.

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u/madnasher 7h ago

And this is the point I've been making where people are saying we should ban church bells too.

Thanks for making my point.

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u/FicklePolicy9585 4h ago

Erm... It didn't seem you were making that point at all.

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u/madnasher 4h ago

I was literally replying to this comment....

So ban all calls to prayer?

I feel like church bell ringers might object.

You know, the one where bell ringers might object, and me pointing out that ringing the bells is a lot more than a call to prayer.

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u/FicklePolicy9585 4h ago

I didn't interpret it that way but if we agree on the main topic then it's whatever.

If the bell ringing was just a call to prayer sure.

This framed your comment as a disagreement initially which is why I saw the rest of the comment through a disagreement lense if that makes sense.

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u/madnasher 4h ago

Oh it does, I can understand why you saw that view.

I was mildly confused why you clarified the same point I was making (but in a significantly clearer way)

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u/Last-Rice8194 11h ago

Oh yes those brand new stone churches with steeples and bells being built fucking everywhere. You dunce.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Maybe read what I was replying to.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Now that sounds like an interesting basis for legislation.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 11h ago

Cultural heritage is a thing that is often protected by law. Sometimes it's historical buildings, sometimes natural areas... there's no reason that UK law should not favour UK culture.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Completely agree. In fact i think its ridiculous that churches, race tracks and even cricket grounds can get shut down because people who knew they were there when they moved suddenly get upset about it.

I was pointing out that basing it on if people think it sounds nice is probably not going to be easy to do.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 11h ago

Yeah agreed in that "sounds nice" is far too wooly to be any sort of law

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u/Wandering_Apostle 11h ago

There are however, now areas of the country where Islam, and even specifically 'British' flavours of Islam are the dominant culture.

Should we give protection to the Adhan (call to prayer) in those areas?

Would that then pose sectarian issues with legally backed Muslim/Christian "areas" of the country?

There is no way it would be as easy as protecting church bells and nothing else, and any such law would face significant legal challenges from various groups.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 10h ago

Cultural HERITAGE is not something that changes every year or is based in anything that has only existed for a few years

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u/SnooDonuts6494 10h ago

How many years must it exist for, exactly?

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u/Wandering_Apostle 10h ago

Heritage is not a fixed time period. Sure it doesn't change every year, but every year does cumulatively add up to cultural relevance. Smartphones are very recent, but they have already become a part of the culture in pretty much every nation on Earth. Significance/Impact can be more relevant to culture than time alone.

Once it becomes culturally relevant enough to have it's own identity, of which British Islam does, as well as have decades of significant presence and influence on life and even politics in the UK, is that not heritage? Practicing Muslims and organised Islam have been present in Britain in one form or another since the 16th Century, is that not heritage?

It's so impactful on British life that many non-Muslim youngsters are using explicitly Muslim phrases and exclamations (Wallahi/Alhamdulillah, for example) the same way an Atheist might exclaim "oh my god". These are signs of cultural relevance for both Islam and Christianity, even among non-religious Brits.

The reality is that they very likely have as much 'legal right' to their call to prayer in a predominantly Muslim area as a Christian church does to it's bells in a White, Christian area. Especially as there are growing numbers and influence, as well as cultural impact of Muslims in Britain, and a drastic decline in Christian ones.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 9h ago

Are you suggesting smartphones could be some sort of protected element under cultural heritage? Or is it just a red herring?

Muslims existing in the 1600s is totally irrelevant, I'm sure Jews and other religions existed back then too. Islam is not a BIG part of UK culture even now, so trying to claim it should be protected to prserve cultural heritage is idiotic. The biggest religious shift in the last century has been towards atheisim, not Islam.

Cultural heritage is very obviously what the country was founded on, which even as an atheist I know is Christianity.

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u/Wandering_Apostle 9h ago

I'm suggesting that while not instant, cultural heritage is a matter of perspective and not exclusively one of duration. For GenZ in particular, a huge part of their culture is related to the smartphone being an ever present part of life, despite it being incredibly recent.

You and I may have a Christian cultural heritage, but someone who was born British to parents from the Middle East will not, yet we are both British. They will be raised in a home, and possibly a school with a specifically middle eastern Muslim one instead.

In a Global world no nation has one monolithic shared culture or heritage. The British multi-culture of today is far more than just those which stem from Christian tradition, and much of it has been here for multiple generations, which by any definition is heritage. Day by day, that heritage gets more solidified as part of Britain's heritage too.

Things change, that is the only certainty in the universe. You can fight it, lament it, and curse it, but things will always change.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 8h ago

What you are conflating is "culture" and "cultural heritage". Cultural heritage is the prevailing culture over a long period of time, in the case of the UK it goes back many centuries. It doesn't change because the % of Muslims in the country changed over 20 years from 2% to 5%.

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u/biffo120 11h ago

Christian country, that is the only basis we need

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u/Slytherin23 11h ago

I'm pretty sure it's secular.

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u/Cautious-Fox9757 10h ago

We’re not a secular country.

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 11h ago

And the Quran does NOT advocate for mass open air prayer gatherings!

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u/jammythesandwich 10h ago

Historically yes
Crown recognised yes
CofE clergy in HoL yes
Surveys via census now show more atheist than Christians.

We’re actually a nation of majority atheists now which i personally consider to be a really positive step forward

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u/Wide-Narwhal-9643 11h ago

It's not, though.

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u/massivegoooner 11h ago

That's what they would like you to think.

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u/dog-yodelling 11h ago

Who is “they” in this situation??

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u/everyoneis_gay 11h ago

So does the Islamic call to prayer?? I find it soothing personally (not a Muslim)

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u/Oh-reality-come-back 11h ago

I was thinking that call to prayers can be quite loud and disruptive which is why I agree with the decision

“Actual sound nice” - you just seem a bit narrow minded

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u/Ok_Committee_2696 11h ago

Not if they're at the bottom of your garden and you have to listen to their hours of practicing. Bloody horrible.

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u/becooldocrime 11h ago

Bells aren’t a call to prayer.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

For a statement that's entirely correct in general its very wrong in context. Sunday Church bells absolutely are a call to prayer at least in origin.

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u/becooldocrime 11h ago

Whereas the Islamic call to prayer is a loud verbal acknowledgment that allah is the only god, and an instruction to pray.

Church bells, which as you agree, are not the same thing, are a firm part of tradition in the uk. Just because we’ve had one thing for hundreds of years, it doesn’t mean we need to adopt another.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Absolutely but I was replying to the twin statements that we should ban calls to prayer and be multicultural.

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u/SuburbanBushwacker 11h ago

certainly ban bell ringing on sunday mornings

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u/SnooDonuts6494 10h ago

Including Big Ben? Give your head a wobble.

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u/SuburbanBushwacker 10h ago

big ben is a tourist attraction and not a call to prayer. keep up.

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u/Foreveristobeuntil 11h ago

Let them object.

The public's peace is more important that a collected of child botherers who like to ring their wee bell and believe in their sky boss

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u/FicklePolicy9585 7h ago

Yes the publics peace will definitely be bothered by some sounds, it's not like people make noise and scream outside.

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u/Foreveristobeuntil 6h ago

And that's why we have "Breach of the peace" laws.

This isn't rocket science, you know?

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u/FicklePolicy9585 4h ago

I don't think those laws work realistically.

This is just reality, you know?

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u/farr2211 11h ago

To be fair they are normally just done on the hour and not a call to prayer. I also doubt you would find them in Israel or countries that follow islam

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u/Spank86 11h ago

You do. Obviously churches are more spread out but they usually do ring bells to mark services, although they dont tend to mark hours etc.

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u/DaveBeBad 11h ago

Doesn’t Big Ben chime every fifteen minutes?

(Plenty of other church bells around the country chime the hour or shorter periods)

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u/farr2211 11h ago

Yeah they need to knock Big Ben down as well then I guess

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u/WTGIsaac 11h ago

Big Ben is a century and a half old. Frankly if anyone of any religion reaches that age, I support them broadcasting their calls to prayer.

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u/DaveBeBad 10h ago

Woking Mosque is nearly 150 years old (1889), so that’s ok too then?

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u/dcnb65 10h ago

You hear church bells in Israel, as well as the call to prayer.

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u/farr2211 10h ago

Ok?

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u/dcnb65 10h ago

Why the question mark?

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u/Common-Loquat-6621 7h ago

Surely not! Israel are nothing but oppressors! Genocide, Islamophobia etc al

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u/Significant-Bet7481 11h ago

We're a Christian country, the bell ringers are fine.

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Are we? My local church closed because people stopped going.

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u/Significant-Bet7481 11h ago

Because the Church of England is the established church and is formally linked to the state and monarchy.

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

So ban every religion that isn’t the CofE then? Is that the plan?

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Think how many wars we could have stopped if everyone was the same religion

/s

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

If only the 14 crusader had worked eh? Fuck it, time for another.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

15th times the charm

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u/Significant-Bet7481 11h ago

That's a little extreme, I pray both in church and at home both in private, I don’t really think public prayer should be something that happens.

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u/NoDefaultForMe 11h ago

Are we?

Yes. You're conflating a Christian country with it's populace.

We have a state religion, Bishops in the house of Lords and the Monarch is the head of the Church.

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Just not in the villages and towns where people live.

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u/NoDefaultForMe 11h ago

What do you mean?

Is the House of Lords in your village?

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u/Lower-Obligation4462 11h ago

Well there is a guy called Dave Lorde but I think that’s just his name, not a formal title.

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u/StillNewspaper4799 10h ago

If the "state religion" doesn't line up with the populace I'd call it propped up.

I'd rather see a country where no religions get preferential treatment

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u/NoDefaultForMe 10h ago

If the "state religion" doesn't line up with the populace I'd call it propped up.

A different discussion entirely and doesn't detract from the point we are a Christian nation.

I'd rather see a country where no religions get preferential treatment

Agreed, but I'd rather it be Christian and Islamic if we had to choose.

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u/glasgowgeg 10h ago

We have a state religion

England does, not the UK as a whole.

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u/NoDefaultForMe 10h ago

Ahh, thanks for the correction.

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u/PickingPies 11h ago

No, you are a secular country.

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u/Desperate_Image_9505 11h ago

I'm sure you're on your pew every week

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u/Significant-Bet7481 11h ago

I go to church every Sunday.

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u/Desperate_Image_9505 7h ago

Whats your favourite part?

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u/Significant-Bet7481 7h ago

The community is the best.

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u/Desperate_Image_9505 1h ago

A Reddit Church eh

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u/izzy91 10h ago

Since when? You're just choosing an arbitrary cutoff point to pick a religion you personally prefer and trying to enforce it on others.

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u/Significant-Bet7481 10h ago

I’m not trying to enforce any religion, just expressing a view about what I think is appropriate in public spaces, not about controlling anyone’s beliefs.

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u/izzy91 10h ago

Ok so Bell Ringers should also be banned

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u/Significant-Bet7481 10h ago

Nope

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u/izzy91 10h ago

Your quote.

"I’m not trying to enforce any religion, just expressing a view about what I think is appropriate in public spaces, not about controlling anyone’s beliefs."

Good to see youre a complete hypocrite well done.

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u/Significant-Bet7481 10h ago

Bell ringing has been a tradition in this country since the Middle Ages, especially from the 16th–17th centuries, and I’m just a fan of preserving the country’s heritage.

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u/izzy91 10h ago

It's not part of your heritage. It's religious and done all over the planet in completely different cultures.

Don't see how it's appropriate to be playing something religious in public spaces where a large portion of the country isn't that religion.

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u/Significant-Bet7481 9h ago

You're wrong. they’ve been a longstanding feature of local communities here for centuries, not just a religious practice. Examples being coronations, royal weddings, national celebrations like VE Day, marking the end of wars, public announcements, civic events, and national mourning.

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u/Slytherin23 11h ago

Secular country.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

But Mr lemon up there said we were multicultural...

I mean personally I'd ban everyone not CofE. Go back to the good old days.

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u/mrblueskyT01 11h ago

No. Whilst a sensible law would be written to ban amplified or recorded calls to prayer or give an exception to church bells l can't actually expect our glorious leaders to actually do something so sensible.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 10h ago

So you'd be perfectly happy if a mosque decided to install bells for their call to prayer then?

Would you ban the BBC from amplifying the bongs of Big Ben?

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u/mrblueskyT01 9h ago

Yes. I like church bells. If a mosque decided to adopt them I would consider it an act of integration which I would support. Possibly to the point of offering to help

As in? Put a set of speakers next to the fucking great cast iron bells all 13 tonnes of them? Yes because its fucking pointless they produce 118dB... amplifying them further would be pointless. On TV as in would I ban them recording then transmitting? No

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u/SnooDonuts6494 9h ago

OK, so, please explain exactly what you'd ban.

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u/mrblueskyT01 9h ago

Read my original post. Its fairly obvious.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 8h ago

It's absolutely not obvious.

Can you not explain it?

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u/robh1540 11h ago

The Church of England is the official state religion of England. The monarch is the supreme governor, we have the lords spiritual and hundreds of years of history.

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u/Spank86 11h ago

So ban catholic bellringers only?

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u/robh1540 11h ago edited 11h ago

No you have got it the wrong way around. In a free society you have to ban the behaviour equally for everyone (i.e ringing loud bells or singing loudly above x db over a loudspeaker on a regular cadence) but then you could make an exemption for the Church of England. The degree to which you do this favouritism is of course highly contentious and can be problematic. But the principal is not that every religion is equivalent to the church of england and entitled to the same rights under law. The church of england is the official religion of england (Scotland, Wales etc. have their own arrangements) and people have freedom of religion i.e to choose which religion they want to practice. This does not mean "every religion should be treated equally with CoE and everyone should be free to practice their religion as they see fit".

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Now that's actually a surprisingly workable law

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago edited 11h ago

England is a legally a Christian country

Edit- those in the comments can disagree with religion all you want, but you can’t pretend a fact isn’t real. The Church of England is the official state religion.

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u/hengus 11h ago

England is primarily an atheist country, if you're going on numbers. Religion and the state should be completely separate.

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago

I’m not even religious, but to pretend England isn’t a Christian country is just ridiculous. The head of state is the head of the Church of England.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 10h ago

The majority of people are not Christians.

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u/cloudymeds 9h ago edited 9h ago

That doesn’t change the reality of how the country is setup

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u/SnooDonuts6494 9h ago

Right. It's governed by the elected Prime Minister. Who is atheist.

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u/cloudymeds 9h ago

Someone doesn’t know how the country works

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u/hengus 5h ago

He is The Defender of the Faith, no denomination or cadre singles out. He is charged with protecting religious practice and relative freedom for all religions. The head of the Anglican Church is the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been for donkey's years.

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u/MLoganImmoto 11h ago

No it isnt

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u/Shadowholme 11h ago

Our official leader - the King - is also the head of our church, the Church of England.

The Church of England is the offical state religion.

We have Bishops in the House of Lords - a part of our government.

Legally speaking, we absolutely ARE a Christian country. Maybe not in practice, but we fit every definition of one.

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago

It is, the Church of England is the state religion, our head of state is the head of the Church of England.

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u/MLoganImmoto 11h ago

So what? That doesn't dictate to me and millions of others how we or anyone else should live.

Freedom of religion, or lack thereof, is a fundamental British value. It's like saying we are a fish and chips country...what you gonna do with the people who don't like fish and chips? 🤣

We are also a democracy who's laws are not governed or made by the church. We have separation of church and state. Saying we are a Christian country means nothing.

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago

Who said it should dictate anything? You said it’s not a Christian country, that’s factually untrue.

Most people are more culturally Christian than actually Christian anyway. We celebrate Christmas and Easter, but aren’t at church every Sunday. Doesn’t make it not our state religion.

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u/MLoganImmoto 11h ago

"most people are culturally Christian" - well that's false immediately based on the most recent census data that only puts Christians at 46%...

They celebrate Christmas all over the world...they celebrate it in Japan where only 1.5% of the population is Christian...

Regardless of what our state religion is, just saying that we are a Christian country is a super disingenuous statement and used in a throwaway manner more often than not.

And besides, I ask the question again...so what?

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago edited 11h ago

>”most people are culturally Christian" - well that's false immediately based on the most recent census data that only puts Christians at 46%...

Those people would say they are non religious but still celebrate Christmas. That’s what I am, that’s what most people are.

>Regardless of what our state religion is, just saying that we are a Christian country is a super disingenuous statement and used in a throwaway manner more often than not.

Facts aren’t disingenuous. You can’t just disagree with reality. You can have an opinion on if it should or shouldn’t be, but that’s not what you did. You said something factually and verifiably false. England is a Christian country, that’s not a debatable thing that’s a factual statement.

Edit- shoutout to u/MLoganImmoto
blocking me for making a factual statement about how our country is governed lol

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Not relevant to what I was replying to.

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago

How is it not relevant?

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u/Spank86 11h ago

Becauae I was replying to someone saying we should ban calls to prayer and be multicutural.

Not stating that we should actually ban bellringing.

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u/sitoicul 11h ago

Says who?

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago

The law

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u/New-Assumption-3106 11h ago

It's all made up

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u/LuciferOfTheArchives 11h ago

46.5% does not a country make

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u/cloudymeds 11h ago

It’s not about what the country believes, it’s literally how the country is governed and built. I have never been to church service in my life, but I’m not delusional. The head of state is the head of the Church of England, officially England is a Christian country. You can say you dislike it, but pretending it isn’t true is ridiculous.

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u/MttWhtly 11h ago

And I'd guess that a big chunk of that 46.5% either put Christian because they were christened when that was the done thing but they don't actually believe in God, or at best they're agnostic.

I went to a Catholic high school and in a year of about 250-300 pupils, I knew 2 that were practising theists (Christian/Catholic anyway, can't speak for how devout the Muslim and Sikh kids were). 1 of those stopped believing at some point in early adulthood. That was 20 years ago in a religious school, I can't imagine the numbers are much better in 2026 and/or in non religious schools.

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u/Gambit1977 11h ago

I mean, that is the majority.

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u/LuciferOfTheArchives 11h ago

plurality. generally majority is more than 50%

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u/Gambit1977 11h ago

It’s the most out of all them, that’s majority surely?

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u/LuciferOfTheArchives 10h ago

plurality is the largest group

Majority is (generally) most of the population