{"id":171166,"date":"2025-06-09T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171166\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:39:09","slug":"text-of-lords-prayer-still-popular-in-united-kingdom-per-survey-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171166\/","title":{"rendered":"Text of Lord’s Prayer still popular in United Kingdom, per survey \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Kingdom may no longer be<\/a> a majority Christian country, but 8 in 10 people there still recognize a famous Christian prayer, according to new research from the Church of England<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The survey found that more people in the U.K. recognized an excerpt from the Lord\u2019s Prayer than recognized quotes from William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and the British national anthem.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, the phrase from the Lord\u2019s Prayer was recognised correctly by the largest number of people (80.3%), just ahead of Star Wars (79.9%),\u201d per a Church of England<\/a> press release. <\/p>\n

\"\"A copy of the Lord’s Prayer is pictured hanging on a fence at the makeshift memorial to students who died in Plaza Towers elementary school during a tornado on May 20, in Moore, Okla., Friday, June 7, 2013, as one of the automobiles wrecked in the tornado is carted away at rear. | Sue Ogrocki, Associated Press <\/p>\n

The survey, which was fielded by Savanta among more than 2,000 people in the United Kingdom from May 23 to May 26, tested participants\u2019 knowledge of popular phrases from religion, sports, politics and culture. <\/p>\n

People were given seven famous phrases \u2014 including \u201cMay the force be with you\u201d from \u201cStar Wars\u201d \u2014 and asked to match them to their source from a list of correct answers. <\/p>\n

\u201cGive us this day our daily bread\u201d was the phrase used from the Lord\u2019s Prayer. <\/p>\n

As the press release noted, survey participants were particularly good at recognizing the quotes from religion and pop culture. <\/p>\n

They were particularly bad at identifying \u201cIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times,\u201d a quote from Dickens. <\/p>\n

\u201cA minority of those surveyed (39%) correctly identified the opening line from Dickens\u2019s \u2018A Tale of Two Cities,\u2019\u201d the Church of England reported. <\/p>\n

Text of the Lord\u2019s Prayer<\/p>\n

The Lord\u2019s Prayer comes from the Bible, where it appears twice: in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s widely used in Christianity, but different Christian traditions use slightly different versions of it, in part because of disagreements over how to translate the Bible passages. <\/p>\n

Here is the text of the traditional version of the Lord\u2019s Prayer that\u2019s used by the Church of England<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new survey also investigated which parts of the Lord\u2019s Prayer stand out to people in the U.K.<\/p>\n

Survey respondents were given the text and asked to identify which lines were most meaningful to them. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe most commonly selected line was \u2018\u2026 and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us\u2019 with 43% overall and more than half (56%) of Christians surveyed,” the Church of England reported. <\/p>\n

Pew survey on religion<\/p>\n

The Lord\u2019s Prayer survey was released just ahead of a new Pew Research Center report<\/a> showing that Christianity is declining in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n

Pew found that the U.K. is one of four countries that stopped being majority Christian from between 2010 and 2020. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs of 2020, Christians were a majority in 120 countries and territories, down from 124 a decade earlier. Christians dropped below 50% of the population in the United Kingdom (49%), Australia (47%), France (46%) and Uruguay (44%). In each of these places, religiously unaffiliated people now account for 40% or more of the population,\u201d Pew reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom may no longer be a majority Christian country, but 8 in 10 people there still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,29855,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-171166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news-feed-national","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655341090611116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}