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Predictably and sadly, none of the nine nations are Muslim, all are Christian.
1 posted on 03/22/2011 8:51:11 AM PDT by van_erwin
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To: van_erwin

Apparently not.

You can’t call a nation “Christian” when its inhabitants are not believers.

There is truly no such thing as a “Christian nation.” Christianity defies geographical boundaries and inhabits only the heart and mind. Remember that when Constantine tried to force the church on Romans, his attempts institutionalized and corrupted the body.


39 posted on 03/22/2011 10:57:43 AM PDT by Jedidah
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The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

By the same token based on the birthrates in those nations, they themselves are going extinct. So when do we invade and start colonizing?

There is no one living more on blind faith and religious irrationalism than those who call themselves 'irreligious' anyway.

40 posted on 03/22/2011 11:00:16 AM PDT by Liberty1970 (Ephesians 2:8-10)
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To: van_erwin

Some of those may indeed flip from nominally Christian to Muslim, but none will be religion-free.

You can’t fight something with nothing.


41 posted on 03/22/2011 11:01:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Many of the European nations collect church tithing directly through the government, ie. it’s taken out of your paycheck as a tax. I’ve always felt this was a determining factor in weakening attendance. In Germany to opt out...you have to prove you have “officially” left the church, or whatever religion you used to belong to.


43 posted on 03/22/2011 11:42:53 AM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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The reality is that, a number of European nations that do NOT appear on this list, are in that category ONLY because Islam is the predominately PRACTICED religion there.

My guess is that the rest of Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, and Norway) are in this category: the most practiced religion there is Islam.

That is probably true also of the UK, Belgium and Luexemberg, and Spain.
Not sure of Italy; I think the provincial French are still fairly practicing Catholics.

Poland is in a different class altogether: it will be the source of any Light left on that Continent.

All that said, in each of those countries slated for the extinguishment of religion, are vibrant, faithful Christians.

“The Light shines in the Darkness, and the darkness cannot put it out.”


44 posted on 03/22/2011 11:51:59 AM PDT by happygrl
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To: van_erwin

Did you even read to the end? Where they admit their model is ‘fatally flawed, but we’ll release it anyway to titillate the Dawkinists’...


50 posted on 03/22/2011 1:51:00 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Are you better off than you were four years ago?")
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-——all are Christian——

were.....


53 posted on 03/22/2011 2:13:33 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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I haven’t read the whole thread.

But as far as the muzlames go, you can’t lose something you never had.


56 posted on 03/22/2011 4:44:36 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

Spreading darkness


59 posted on 03/22/2011 5:06:54 PM PDT by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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The longer Jesus delays, the more believers He will lose. People's faith has its limit in human frailty. I wonder if He forgives those who sincerely question Him but perceive no answer?

IOW, I'm tired of talking to myself and reading a book.

63 posted on 03/22/2011 5:15:55 PM PDT by stboz
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Predictably and sadly, none of the nine nations are Muslim

Not yet. Just wait though. Nature abhors a vacuum. Where Christianity dies out damn near anything will move in to take its place.

Islam will not again have to lay siege to the Gates of Vienna, they will only have to walk in and take control. Dittoes for the rest of the dying outposts of civilization.

64 posted on 03/22/2011 5:17:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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