North German Realm wrote:Hakons wrote:
Well, of course that happens. Secular societies enforce and teach secular attitudes, so people in turn become secular. I would absolutely agree that Christianity faces it's greatest challenge from secularism, and that the trends aren't looking good in secular areas.
So in other words, in societies where Christianity (or more accurately, a Church) doesn't hold the society's religious atmosphere in a tight, violent, state-sanctioned grip (i.e. where there is no state religion, or at least where it is not enforced on the general population), Christianity tends to lose popularity, while almost every other single faith tends to become more popular.
No, that's clearly a ridiculous statement, particularly when Christianity was/is on the ascent in societies where it was under persecution. To characterize Christianity as a religion that can't grow or maintain itself without state support is to be supremely ignorant of how the religion became to be dominant in the first place.