Cake and Eat It

Syncretic religions are those that see value in a variety of existing belief systems and are happy to pick and choose elements of each. They typically do not worry about the inherent contradictions associated with the underlying belief systems. This bet is that there will be an increase in those affiliating with 'Syncretic' religions.  These are defined here as Baha'i, Believe in God, Church of All Religion, Mixed Religion, Mysticism, New Age, Spiritual and Unitarian Universalist. In 2001 these categories attracted 6,750 affiliates, in 2011 this had risen to 47,621 but has syncretisicm reached its peak?

The Data Gamble’s Metaphysical Census allows you make money from gambling on religious beliefs using the the 2021 population Census for England and Wales (E&W). This bet will be resolved upon publication by the Office for National Statistics of the Topic Summary for Ethic Group, National Identity, Language an Religion data release as detailed in Table 58A. Arbitration will be sought from British Religion in Numbers (BRIN) research programme in the event that it cannot be resolved to all bettors’ satisfaction.

• Religion,
• census,
• Metaphysical,
• Belief,
• england,
• Wales

RESOLVED AT 10:52AM, Dec 3, 2022 UTC