Why does Christianity have more resistance in North America than in Europe?

[Ruggery]

It is calculated that in less than 100 years Christians will become a large minority.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...urvey-religion

Europe’s march towards a post-Christian society has been starkly illustrated by research showing a majority of young people in a dozen countries do not follow a religion.

The survey of 16- to 29-year-olds found the Czech Republic is the least religious country in Europe, with 91% of that age group saying they have no religious affiliation. Between 70% and 80% of young adults in Estonia, Sweden and the Netherlands also categorise themselves as non-religious.

The most religious country is Poland, where 17% of young adults define themselves as non-religious, followed by Lithuania with 25%
In the UK, only 7% of young adults identify as Anglican, fewer than the 10% who categorise themselves as Catholic. Young Muslims, at 6%, are on the brink of overtaking those who consider themselves part of the country’s established church.

The figures are published in a report, Europe’s Young Adults and Religion, by Stephen Bullivant, a professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary’s University in London. They are based on data from the European social survey 2014-16.

Religion was “moribund”, he said. “With some notable exceptions, young adults increasingly are not identifying with or practising religion.”

The trajectory was likely to become more marked. “Christianity as a default, as a norm, is gone, and probably gone for good – or at least for the next 100 years,” Bullivant said.

But there were significant variations, he said. “Countries that are next door to one another, with similar cultural backgrounds and histories, have wildly different religious profiles.”

[Ruggery]

Richmondbread I you dedicate this thread

[Loki]

Partly because the European immigrants that went to America were mostly very religious people... the religious core of Europe emigrated to the United States, and other places like South Africa. Many of them also fled religious persecution in Europe, like the French Huguenots.

[The Lawspeaker]

I think the experience of Europe's wars of religion plus two world wars may have something to do with it. In America, people could worship in relative peace and quiet while here in Europe, we had been killing each other over it for centuries.

[Loki]

I think the experience of Europe's wars of religion plus two world wars may have something to do with it. In America, people could worship in relative peace and quiet while here in Europe, we had been killing each other over it for centuries.

Well, as I said, the most religious core of Europe emigrated after those wars of religion -- to South Africa, the United States, and other countries. So Europe experienced a sort of "spiritual drain".

[The Lawspeaker]

Well, as I said, the most religious core of Europe emigrated after those wars of religion -- to South Africa, the United States, and other countries. So Europe experienced a sort of "spiritual drain".

I actually agree with you. I think Europe was exhausted after the series of wars and that same religious core (so to put it bluntly but it is what it is) left Europe a smouldering crater, licking its wounds for centuries to come (and we still haven't recovered) and spiritually exhausted as that same spirit which made the Notre Dame, which made Renaissance and Mediaeval philosophy was wasted on the battlefield. That religious core then found greener pastures where they had the space to be themselves. Funny how that goes !

It's going to take centuries to recover from the trauma of the Wars of Religion, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the two World Wars.

[Loki]

It's going to take centuries to recover from the trauma of the Wars of Religion, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the two World Wars.

Before you talk of recovery, we will have to face a third world war pretty soon, all because of this incessant Russophobia and American expansionism in Eastern Europe (and worldwide). But people never learn their lesson it seems... history is unimportant to these modern Europeans, hence their bad decisions.

[The Lawspeaker]

Before you talk of recovery, we will have to face a third world war pretty soon, all because of this incessant Russophobia and American expansionism in Eastern Europe (and worldwide). But people never learn their lesson it seems... history is unimportant to these modern Europeans, hence their bad decisions.

I don't think there will be a world war. It's just chatter.

[Loki]

I don't think there will be a world war. It's just chatter.

I hope you're right.

[Catarinense1998]

Good ask.