[AntiGuv]

My personal views are irrelevant to the validity of the statement, which is self-evident. The decline of Christianity is clearly related to its divergence from the social reality that Western civilization has increasingly embraced and from the scientific reality which is commonly held as accurate. If you think it's declining for a different reason, by all means feel free to let me know.

Even if Christianity is not declining due to its increasing disjunction with empirical reality, the overall comment itself is not any less valid due to that (which is why it's in parentheses ;)...

[scripter]

Your worldview is made obvious by the statements you make, statements I find ignorant, baiting and a waste of time to respond to. If I want to bang my head against a wall I'll let you know.

[A.J.Armitage]

The decline of Christianity is clearly related to its divergence from the social reality that Western civilization has increasingly embraced... Even if Christianity is not declining due to its increasing disjunction with empirical reality...

Hopefully scripter's pissing match won't obscure something important here: you don't have a clue what religion is for in the first place. You also mentioned science, but that really isn't incompatible with Christianity, and in any even if that's what you meant by empirical reality, Christianity could hardly get more or less different from it, since neither Christian doctrine nor the nature of rocks is changing. What you mean, it seems, must be the first thing you mentioned, "the social reality that Western civilization has increasingly embraced". As if serious religion were intended to make you feel good about doing what you were going to do anyway.