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Estimates are that 97% + of the French are not Christians. Many were baptized Catholic...and they may go to some weddings or funerals...but that's the extent of their "Christianity." They don't believe or practice the old creeds. This is similar to the rest of Europe. I saw an article in Newsweek a year or so ago, which said that demographers have never seen a people so thoroughly secular, without any formal religion, as the modern European.

Islamic people--mostly Arabs from North Africa, make up something like 15%+ of the population....with a phenomenal growth rate. Where the average French family has less than 2 kids per family, the immigrents average....AVERAGE, 5. This, along with the immigration rate means that less than 30 years, the MAJORITY of the country will be Islamic. Most of these are observant Moslems....therefore Moslems already out-number Christians in France...

Similar statistics exist for the other major European nations. In America, we moan about hispanic immigrents...but at least they have a religion in common with us.