Posted on 03/22/2018 12:30:09 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Catholic sociologist Stephen Bullivant has issued a detailed report on the state of Christianity in Europe. It is not encouraging. Bullivant, who teaches at St. Mary’s University, outside of London, is director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society. The report, “European Young Adults and Religion,” measured religious practice and affiliation in 22 countries; the data were taken from a survey of those aged 16-29.
The proportion of young adults with no religious affiliation ranges from a high of 91 percent in the Czech Republic to a low of 17 percent in Poland. Following the Czech Republic are Estonia, Sweden, and the Netherlands; between 70 percent and 80 percent of young adults in those countries have no religious affiliation. The next most religious country to Poland is Lithuania; Austria and Ireland also post respectable numbers.
Conditions in the United Kingdom have changed markedly. More young people there identify as Catholic (10 percent) than Anglican (7 percent), with Muslims (6 percent) coming on fast.
Attendance at religious services has fallen off dramatically, as has the proportion of young people who pray. Poland is the least affected by the secularization of Europe; Estonia, the Czech Republic, and the Scandinavian countries are the most secular.
What does this mean? Bullivant maintains that “Christianity as a default, as a norm, is gone, and probably gone for good—or at least for the next 100 years.” He adds that “In 20 or 30 years’ time, mainstream churches will be smaller, but the few people left will be highly committed.”...
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Convert or die.
Let us know how it works out for ya.
I suppose there was one salient point in that old Jonie Mitchell song: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ‘till it’s gone.”
Makes perfect sense. Many congregations have also abandoned Christianity.
That’s something I don’t understand. Things I believe in are buttressed by some sort of reality. I can’t turn belief on or off just by willing it so. Can you?
A forced conversion isn’t a conversion at all, I think. Can you decide to believe in something just because you are told to, with no evidence of it being true?
The left long ago conquered state schools, then they took out religion.
Is it any wonder when all Christian denominations in Europe are state run?
Why should they keep it. The pope abandoned it.
Got to have it first, before you can abandon it.
Nothing new, in spite of the breathless declarations of the learned scholar.
IMHO I believe that it stems from no hard and fast rules and, of course, in the Catholic Church the courting of homosexuals who found good hunting with little boys.
A casual Christian isn't really a Christian, so if they lose their "faith" they haven't lost anything.
Now as to conversion to Islam, imagine Europeans are required to join the NAZI or communist party and contribute financially to it and work for it.
They fall in line because they are required to. And they pretend to be true believers lest they be accused of apostasy and executed.
I think a lot of muslims are just controlled by Islam and are not true believers.
I think that's why the Left likes Islam. It is a proven means of population control/domination.
And then they introduced Islam.
If the Left thinks Islam is about controlling the population they are delusional. They don't allow abortions.
And Islam will not tolerate the Left.
Christianity is going the way of the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods. It will be interesting to see what replaces it. Will it be Islam or belief in the State or the soccer team?
I think these are excellent points.
The rumors of Christianity dying have been around since the resurrection of Christ. Although the number of Christians may become smaller, Christ’s church isn’t going anywhere. What should concern us is the number of souls who believe themselves to be good people who will find themselves in hell.
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