The Start of the End of Faith?

Congregations are losing their religious belief even faster than churches are losing their congregations, according to research published today.

That’s according to this article in yesterday’s Grauniad Good news:

In houses where only one parent had strong feelings about faith, children were much less likely to believe. On the other hand, two non-religious parents had no trouble passing on their lack of faith. In effect, attendance fell away steadily with each generation.

Err..not so good news:

The only factor likely to slow the decline - congregations and ordinations have begun to dwindle in both the Catholic and Protestant traditions - is that devout households tend to have more children than non-religious ones.

In other words, good fellow atheists-start procreating!

Hang on a bit, what’s that correlation between intelligence and the number of offspring again?